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Usage of Specialized Fence-Gaps in a Black Rhinoceros Conservancy in Kenya [PDF]

, 2016
Fencing is increasingly used in wildlife conservation. Keeping wildlife segregated from local communities, while permitting wildlife access to the greater landscape matrix is a complex task.
Davidson, Zeke, Dupuis-Desormeaux, Marc, Kisio, Edwin, MacDonald, Suzanne E., Mwololo, Mary   +4 more
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Livestock depredation by snow leopard and Tibetan wolf: Implications for herders’ livelihoods in Wangchuck Centennial National Park, Bhutan

Pastoralism, 2019
Human-wildlife conflict (HWC) is a serious problem in many parts of the world, and Bhutan’s Wangchuck Centennial National Park (WCNP) is no exception. Located in the remote alpine areas of the eastern Himalaya, wildlife species such as snow leopard (SL ...
Yonten Jamtsho, Om Katel
doaj   +1 more source

Assessing the Role of Livestock in Big Cat Prey Choice Using Spatiotemporal Availability Patterns. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2016
Livestock is represented in big cat diets throughout the world. Husbandry approaches aim to reduce depredation, which may influence patterns of prey choice, but whether felids have a preference for livestock or not often remains unclear as most studies ...
Arash Ghoddousi, Mahmood Soofi, Amirhossein Kh Hamidi, Tanja Lumetsberger, Lukas Egli, Igor Khorozyan, Bahram H Kiabi, Matthias Waltert   +7 more
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The numbers of the beast: Valuation of jaguar (Panthera onca) tourism and cattle depredation in the Brazilian Pantanal [PDF]

, 2017
Large carnivores fascinate people because of their beauty and potential as human predators and have therefore become focal species for the ecotourism industry.
Anderson, Azevedo, Bauer, Bindra, Boulhosa, Brauer, Buckley, Bulde, Catlin, Cavalcanti, Chardonnet, Crawshaw, Curtin, Devlin, Dickman, Gallagher, Gossling, Harris, Hazzah, Hemson, Hoogesteijn, Hoogesteijn, Hoogesteijn, Hoogesteijn, Hoogesteijn, Inskip, Karanth, Karanth, Lindsey, Marchini, Michalski, Moraes, Mossaz, Munn, Nassar, Nijkamp, Nyhus, Porfírio, Quigley, Quigley, Sarmiento, Schwerdtner, Seidl, Skibins, Thresher, Tisdell, Tortato, Tortato, Treves, Treves, Wagner, Walpole, Wilcox, Zimmerman   +53 more
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Night Lighting and Domestic Dogs Reduce Livestock Depredation Risk in the Tropical Lowlands of Nepal

Conservation Letters
Increasing livestock depredation by recovering large carnivore populations undermines local support for long‐term conservation. Past studies on livestock depredation have primarily focused on biophysical predictors, often overlooking the role of ...
Bijaya Neupane, Ambika P. Gautam, Dietrich Schmidt‐Vogt, Nicholas J. Hogarth, Edward L. Webb   +4 more
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Management of wolf and lynx conflicts with human interests [PDF]

, 2007
In many areas viable populations of large carnivores are political goals. One of the most important factors in order to achieve viable large carnivore populations is human tolerance for presence of large carnivores.
Karlsson, Jens
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Human Wildlife Conflicts to communities surrounding Mikumi National Parks in Tanzania: A case of selected villages [PDF]

, 2017
Human wildlife interaction is not a new phenomenon, it has existed since the beginning of humankind, it is evidenced by the fact that, many national parks are surrounded by human residents.
Bwagalilo, F. (Fadhili), Kalumanga, V. E. (Venance), Mayengo, G. (Gabriel)   +2 more
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A Systemic Model for Understanding Business Interactions With Biodiversity and Ecosystems

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation represent critical threats to human well‐being and economic resilience, challenging businesses to understand and manage their interdependence with natural systems. This study develops a systemic framework—the BioModel—that elucidates the reciprocal relationship between businesses, biodiversity, and ...
Lino Cinquini, Giacomo Pigatto, Andrea Tenucci   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Livestock Depredation by Carnivores in the Serengeti Ecosystem, Tanzania

Environment and Natural Resources Research, 2013
Data for livestock depredation by wild animals were collected in villages outside Serengeti National Park, northern Tanzania. We tested livestock mortality against distance of the villages from the protected area in relation to carnivore species involved, methods used to protect livestock from being depredated and frequency of livestock diseases.
Eivin Røskaft, Angela Mwakatobe, Julius Nyahongo   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Late summer plateau pika spatial habitat use revealed by high‐resolution wildlife tracking and unmanned aerial vehicle data on the Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau

Grassland Research, EarlyView.
Tiny “ecosystem engineers,” plateau pikas range across 1600 m², about two basketball courts, mixing soil and nutrients that sustain Tibet's fragile grasslands. Custom‐made trackers and drone imagery show dawn‐to‐dusk surface foraging and nested‐scale patch choices, offering fresh guidance for wildlife‐friendly grazing management.
Dan Li, Johannes M. H. Knops, Li Li
wiley   +1 more source