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Seasonal influence of rainfall and crops on home range expansion by bull elephants

Pachyderm, 2003
'Knowledge of distribution and movement patterns in relation to their environment is essential if elephants are to be effectively managed because crop raiding is spatial and temporal in nature.' This study attempted to obtain estimates of the home ...
Ferrel Osborn
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Pattern of crop raiding by wild large mammals and the resultant impacts vary with distances from forests in Southwest Ethiopia. [PDF]

Ecol Evol, 2021
Mamo A, Lemessa D, Diriba OH, Hunde D.
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Impacts of human-wildlife conflict in developing countries

Journal of Applied Sciences and Environmental Management, 2018
This paper is aimed to investigate the driving forces for human-wildlife conflict in developing countries in order to develop conservation strategies.
D.O. Gemeda, S.K. Meles
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High-resolution tracking technology reveals distinct patterns in nocturnal crop raiding behaviour of an African elephant (Loxodonta africana) in Amboseli, Kenya

Pachyderm, 2018
Conflict between humans and elephants is a notoriously complex problem requiring a detailed understanding of the underlying patterns and processes in order to develop effective solutions.
Ryan Wilkie, Iain Douglas-Hamilton
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Elephant crop damage in the Red Volta Valley, north-eastern Ghana

Pachyderm, 2005
Crop raiding behaviour of elephants that seasonally migrate into the Red Volta Valley was monitored as part of a project assessing conflict mitigation. Betrween 1999-2003 farmers in the project area were organized into associations.
Patrick Adjewodah, Paul Beier, Sam, Kofi, John Mason   +3 more
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Community-based methods to reduce crop loss to elephants: experiments in the communal lands of Zimbabwe

Pachyderm, 2002
This study compared an experimental community based strategy for protecting crops with current deterrent methods involved 7 villages in a high elephant population area in Guruve District in northern Zimbabwe.
Ferrel Osborn, Guy Parker
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The population status and maize crop-raiding activities of Papio anubis and Chlorocebus pygerythrus in the Abala Abaya forest, located in southern Ethiopia

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Species and subspecies of primates occur in different parts of Ethiopia, and some of them are successful crop raiders. We conducted a study on the population status and maize crop-raiding activities of Anubis baboons (Papio anubis) and Vervet monkeys ...
Senait Samuel, Wondimagegnehu Tekalign
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Elephants in the neighborhood: patterns of crop-raiding by Asian elephants within a fragmented landscape of Eastern India. [PDF]

PeerJ, 2020
Naha D, Dash SK, Chettri A, Roy A, Sathyakumar S.   +4 more
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Determinants of locals’ perceptions of elephant crop raiding and support for conservation in two distinct protected areas in Tanzania

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Globally, human-wildlife interactions represent complex circumstances arising from the intersecting needs of wildlife and humans. The research occurred in eight villages adjacent to Lake Manyara National Park (LMNP) and the Swagaswaga Game Reserve (SGR ...
Franco Peniel Mbise
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Nutritional content explains the attractiveness of cacao to crop raiding Tonkean macaques

Current Zoology, 2013
Nutritional ecology has been linked to crop raiding behavior in a number of wildlife taxa. Here our goal is to explore the role nutrition plays in cacao crop raiding by Tonkean macaques Macaca tonkeana in Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Erin P. RILEY, Barbara TOLBERT, Wartika R. FARIDA
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