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More than proteins for empty stomachs: Wild meat in the BaTonga food system

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Our paper highlights the limitations of the framework used by many conservation‐focused programmes that incorporate food security objectives. This framework encourages the substitution of wild proteins with domestic proteins by promoting animal farming in communities located near conservation areas.
Muriel Figuié, Luzibo Ottilia Munsaka, Vupenyu Dzingirai, Olivier Lepiller, Maxwell Phiri, Patrice Grimaud   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bushmeat consumption frequency and preferences among rural households in a West African savanna landscape: Implications for food security and conservation

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract The drivers of consumer demand for bushmeat are relatively well studied in tropical forest systems, but much less so in savanna areas. This is important because differing ecological and socio‐economic conditions lead to different factors affecting the relationship between local communities and their natural resources.
Hannah N. K. Sackey, James McNamara, E. J. Milner‐Gulland, Yaa Ntiamoa‐Baidu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Coping with Human-Elephant Conflict in Laikipia District, Kenya

, 2017
In many parts of Africa, large herbivores find their way into private lands, competing for forage with livestock and destroying crops. In Kenya, elephants (Loxodonta africana) pose a real threat to subsistence farmers at the interface between the ...

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Exploring consumer preferences for wild meat and other animal proteins in Gamba, Gabon: Implications for conservation and management of natural resources alongside extractive industry

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract The town of Gamba in southwest Gabon represents an exceptional example of how the development of an extractive industry (in this case oil production) may impact wild meat consumption in an area of global importance for biodiversity. Studies in the 1990s identified an active wild meat trade; however, no studies have been undertaken since, and ...
James McNamara, Landry Tchignoumba, Gabriel Koumba, Ghislain Guissouegou, Anna Feistner   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Data-driven framework for eco-sensitive planning and design: a game theory-enhanced LUCIS approach to human–elephant conflict in Sri Lanka

Frontiers in Sustainability
Human–elephant conflict (HEC) represents one of the most pressing socio-ecological challenges in Sri Lanka, where expanding agriculture and human settlements increasingly overlap with elephant habitats. Conventional mitigation strategies—such as electric
Lahiru Waduge, Gayesha Diwyanjali, Sandaruwan Sankalpa, Chethika Abenayake, Amila Jayasinghe, Chathura De Silva   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Derry/Londonderry report on upholding the human right to culture in post-conflict societies [PDF]

, 2014
The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (the Commission) is mandated as a national human rights institution to uphold all of the human rights in the international human rights treaties. These include the right to culture. However, the Commission has
Criag, Elizabeth, O'Connell, Ciara, NIHRC, Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission, Efthymiou, Stratis-Andreas   +3 more
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Implications of human settlement patterns on human elephant conflict in Sri Lanka

, 2012
According to IUCN/SSC African Elephant Specialist Group (AfESG), the broad definition of Human elephant conflict (HEC) is "Any human-elephant interaction which results in negative effects on human social, economic or cultural life, on elephant ...
Abeyratne, Nishamani
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Digital surveillance of animals and nature recovery

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Digital surveillance technologies (DSTs) are widely applied in nature recovery for their potential to generate novel data on species and ecosystems through digital tracking, automation (e.g. from hazardous locations) and from newly recruited citizen scientists.
William M. Adams
wiley   +1 more source

Well-Being Impacts of Human-Elephant Conflict in Khumaga, Botswana: Exploring Visible and Hidden Dimensions

Conservation & Society, 2017
High densities of wild African savannah elephants (Loxodonta africana) combined with widespread human land-use have increased human-elephant conflict in northern Botswana. Visible impacts (e.g. crop/property damage, injury/fatality) of elephants on human
Allison L Mayberry, Alice J Hovorka, Kate E Evans   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

GIS layers on Human-Elephant conflicts in Laikipia District

, 2004
GIS layers on Human-Elephant conflicts in Laikipia District: aerial counts, wildlife distribution, land-use, Human-Elephant conflicts hotspots and temporal patterns, and conflict deterrence ...
Gerber, Kurt
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