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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
Loss of forest cover, rise in human populations and fragmentation of habitats leads to decline in biodiversity and extinction of large mammals globally.
Dipanjan Naha, Suraj Kumar Dash, Abhisek Chettri, Akashdeep Roy, Sambandam Sathyakumar   +4 more
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Wildlife Damage to Crops Adjacent to a Protected Area in Southeastern Mexico: Farmers’ Perceptions Versus Actual Impact

Human-Wildlife Interactions, 2020
Human–wildlife conflicts occur when wildlife has an adverse effect on human activities (e.g., predation of livestock, crop raiding). These conflicts are increasing, particularly in areas surrounding natural protected areas, where villagers engage in ...
Gabriel Can-Hernández, Claudia Villanueva-García, Elías José Gordillo-Chávez, Coral Jazvel Pacheco-Figueroa, Elizabeth Pérez-Netzahual, Rodrigo García-Morales   +5 more
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Using models of social transmission to examine the spread of longline depredation behavior among sperm whales in the Gulf of Alaska. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
Fishing, farming and ranching provide opportunities for predators to prey on resources concentrated by humans, a behavior termed depredation. In the Gulf of Alaska, observations of sperm whales depredating on fish caught on demersal longline gear dates ...
Zachary A Schakner, Chris Lunsford, Janice Straley, Tomoharu Eguchi, Sarah L Mesnick   +4 more
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Wolf and Bear Depredation on Livestock in Northern Sweden 1827–2014: Combining History, Ecology and Interviews

Land, 2017
During the twenty-first century, large carnivores have increased in human dominated landscapes after being extinct or nearly extinct. This has resulted in increasing numbers of livestock killed by large carnivores.
Weronika Axelsson Linkowski, Marie Kvarnström, Anna Westin, Jon Moen, Lars Östlund   +4 more
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Spatial Pattern Analysis Reveals Randomness Among Carnivore Depredation of Livestock

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2019
Carnivore depredation of livestock is a global problem which negatively impacts both agropastoral livelihoods and carnivore population viability.
Claire F. Hoffmann, Bernard M. Kissui, Robert A. Montgomery   +2 more
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A Conservation-Based Approach to Compensation for Livestock Depredation: The Florida Panther Case Study. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2015
Calf (Bos taurus) depredation by the federally endangered Florida panther (Puma concolor coryi) on ranches in southwest Florida is an important issue because ranches represent mixed landscapes that provide habitat critical to panther recovery.
Caitlin E Jacobs, Martin B Main
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Loggerhead sea turtle nesting and coyote depredation habits in relation to weather and the presence of wolf urine data set

Data in Brief, 2021
The data in this manuscript are comprised of loggerhead sea turtle nesting records and coyote depredation events on South Island Beach in the Tom Yawkey Preserve, South Carolina, from 2015 to 2019 comprise the data in this manuscript.
Michael Wauson, William Rogers
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Trends in pinniped interactions with commercial passenger fisheries vessels in California

California Fish and Wildlife Journal
The resurgence of pinniped populations along the West Coast of the United States, a consequence of the Marine Mammal Protection Act, has resulted in unintended ecological and socio-economic repercussions.
Zachary A. Schakner, Daniel Studt, Elizabeth A. Hellmers, Maren L. Levine   +3 more
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Fisher–shark interactions: A loss of support for the Maldives shark sanctuary from reef fishers whose livelihoods are affected by shark depredation

Conservation Letters, 2022
Targets for protecting predatory species often fail to consider the human costs of conservation. Human–wildlife interactions can increase following conservation action and present a major ecological and socioeconomic challenge.
Danielle Robinson, Steven P. Newman, Mark J. Whittingham, Richard M. Francksen, M. Shiham Adam, Selina M. Stead   +5 more
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Spatial Determinants of Livestock Depredation and Human Attitude Toward Wolves in Kailadevi Wildlife Sanctuary, Rajasthan, India

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022
Gray wolves are capable of adapting to human-dominated landscapes by utilizing domestic prey as a source of food. Livestock depredation by wolves incurs a heavy economic loss to the villagers, resulting in negative attitudes toward the species and ...
Prashant Mahajan, Prashant Mahajan, Rohit Chaudhary, Abduladil Kazi, Dharmendra Khandal   +4 more
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