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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

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

Biocultural conservation as an alternative pathway for conservation: A case study of the Inclusive Conservation Initiative in northern Kenya

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract The Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) aims to conserve 30% of the planet by 2030, yet mounting evidence indicates that current methods for preventing biodiversity loss are insufficient and often intensify unjust conditions for Indigenous Peoples and local communities.
Natalie D. L. York, William Naimado, Charis Enns, Brock Bersaglio, Mali Ole Kaunga, Joseph Larpei, Victorlyn Mukiri, Judy Oreheya, Vivian Silole, Johan A. Oldekop   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Vision-Based Elephant Behavior and Posture Recognition for Early Human–Elephant Conflict Mitigation [PDF]

ITM Web of Conferences
Human–Elephant Conflict (HEC) has become a major socio-environmental issue in India and other Asian countries due to deforestation, agricultural expansion, infrastructure development, and increasing human presence in elephant habitats.
Madhav Varma K., Dewraja Mrinmoy, Prapul Kumar M., Barnes Samuel M., Reshni S.   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Determinants of human–elephant conflict in a land‐use mosaic [PDF]

Journal of Applied Ecology, 1999
Summary1. The resolution of direct conflict between humans and elephants in Africa has become a serious local political issue in recent years, and a continental conservation problem. ‘Problem elephants’ damage crops, food stores and water sources, and sometimes threaten human life.2. Eighty per cent of the African elephant's range lies outside formally
openaire   +1 more source

Intangible drivers of tolerance shape human–elephant coexistence in Southwest China

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Southwest China is home to a small but rapidly expanding population of Asian elephants (Elephas maximus), whose growth has intensified conflicts with people living in shared landscapes. These conflicts result in substantial economic losses and occasional human casualties. This coexistence paradox—where conservation success leads to significant
Xiaoyu Yu, Bin Wang, Liping Wang, Fei Chen, Ahimsa Campos‐Arceiz   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Simulated elephant foraging alters tree root exudation rates: Species‐specific responses and implications for belowground carbon dynamics in tropical forests

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Asian elephants play crucial roles in ecosystem functioning, and their interactions with plants influence above‐ and belowground carbon cycling. We tested whether their mechanically destructive foraging triggers short‐term, stress‐induced shifts in tree root exudation, an underappreciated pathway linking herbivory to belowground carbon processes.
Pratibha Khatri, Bimal Sharma, Lisa Ong, Ahimsa Campos‐Arceiz   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The potential effect of megafaunal extinctions on modern conservation of horse chestnut Aesculus hippocastanum

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Many plant species worldwide are struggling to regenerate due to the ongoing effects of climate change. These effects appear to be further exacerbated by the loss of keystone megafauna, which were important seed dispersers. By identifying the traits commonly seen in seeds spread by modern elephants, it is possible to predict which species likely ...
Andrew J. Tighe
wiley   +1 more source

Timber, cocoa, and crop-raiding elephants: a preliminary study from southern Ghana

Pachyderm, 1995
Reviews the economics associated land use changes in the area initially related to logging and more recently to cocoa and other agricultural crops, which have caused disruption to elephant populations and increased human-elephant conflict in southern ...
Richard Barnes, Sylvester Azika, B. Asamoah-Boateng   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Semi‐automated seal detection on the Western Antarctic Peninsula: an unsupervised machine learning approach for detecting ice seals in aerial survey data

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
This study presents a semi‐automated, rule‐based image analysis pipeline to detect ice seals in aerial surveys of the Western Antarctic Peninsula during an unusually low sea ice year. By using simple hierarchical clustering instead of deep learning, the method substantially reduced human annotation effort while achieving 82% recall, identifying 758 ...
Claire McGinnity, Connor C.G. Bamford, Nathan Fenney, Andrew Fleming, Jaume Forcada, Michael S. Tift, Luis A. Hückstädt, Daniel P. Costa, Peter T. Fretwell   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source