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Projects of the Human-Elephant Conflict Taskforce (HETF) - results and recommendations
Pachyderm, 2000 Notes the development recognition of the need for and the development of the Taskforce focused on human elephant conflict (HEC) - a 5 person group offically established by AfESG in 1997. During the first phase, yielded aN inventory of conflict sites, a
Richard Hoare
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Monitoring human-elephant conflict through remotely located stations
Pachyderm, 1999 Changing land use patterns in the Masai Mara ecosystem, particularly the development of sedentary agriculture has provided for increasing human-elephant conflict in Masai Mara Reserve area. About 16 temporary stations, called outposts, manned by a few rangers in radio contact the regional headquarters, have been established outside the Reserve to ...
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, 2019 Bimal Krishna Matilal (1935-1991) was a Harvard-educated Indian philosopher best known for his contributions to logic, but who also wrote on wide variety of topics, including metaethics.
Bommarito, Nicolas, King, Alex
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Two Problems for the Political Inclusion of Animals
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In recent years, the field of animal ethics has taken a political turn, with scholars arguing that sentient nonhuman animals should be included in the political sphere. This article explores two key challenges arising from this turn towards the political inclusion of animals: the Conflict Problem and the Numbers Problem.
David Paaske, Angela K. Martin
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Does The Economic Value Of The Asian Elephant To Urban Dwellers Exceed Their Cost To The Farmers? A Sri Lankan Study [PDF]
Urban dwellers and farmers in the areas affected by human-elephant conflict in Sri Lanka are often in discord about the conservation of wild elephant in Sri Lanka.
Prof Clem Tisdell, R. Bandara
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"God Is Infinite, and the Paths to God Are Infinite": A Reconstruction and Defense of Sri Ramakrishna's Vijñana-Based Model of Religious Pluralism [PDF]
, 2017 This article argues that contemporary philosophers have unduly ignored Sri Ramakrishna’s pioneering views on religious pluralism. The Bengali mystic Sri Ramakrishna (1836-1886) taught the harmony of all religions on the basis of his own spiritual ...
Maharaj, Ayon
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Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Broaching is a cognitive willingness or directedness to initiate a conversation on a topic that may be difficult or uneasy to discuss with all parties involved. Within the counseling context, broaching refers to the school counselor's or helping professional's effort to initiate or respond to issues related to race, ethnicity, and culture in ...
Erik M. Hines +4 more
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Oikos, EarlyView.Forest restoration success depends crucially on the reinitiation of ecological processes such as seed arrival that drive natural regeneration. We know little about whether, by increasing and diversifying local seed sources to alleviate seed limitation, and attracting animal frugivores to alleviate dispersal limitation, restoration could shift seed ...
Aparna Krishnan +6 more
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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 +2 more
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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 +5 more
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