Towards an integrated approach for reducing the conflict between elephants and people: a review of current research
Ferrel V. Osborn,Guy E. Parker +1 more
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The issues that influence the success and failure of methods used to reduce crop damage by elephants are reviewed, and it is suggested that an integrated, community-based, low-tech approach will be the most sustainable solution to this conflict.Abstract:
Managers attempting to reduce crop damage used to reduce crop damage, and suggests that an integrated, community-based, low-tech approach will be by elephants encounter a range of complex technical and social issues. Subsistence farmers bear the costs associated the most sustainable solution to this conflict. with maintaining wild elephant populations and this can confound interventions designed to improve the Keywords Africa, crop raiding, elephants, farmers, human-animal conflict. livelihood security of farmers. We present a review of the issues that influence the success and failure of methodsread more
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Understanding and managing conservation conflicts
Steve Redpath,Juliette Young,Anna Evely,William M. Adams,William J. Sutherland,Andrew Whitehouse,Arjun Amar,Robert A. Lambert,John D. C. Linnell,Allan D. Watt,Ralph J. Gutierrez +10 more
TL;DR: It is hypothesised that conservation outcomes will be less durable when conservationists assert their interests to the detriment of others and the efficacy of alternative conflict management approaches are evaluated.
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Co-Managing Human–Wildlife Conflicts: A Review
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Conservation’s blind spot: The case for conflict transformation in wildlife conservation
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A Systems Model Approach to Determining Resilience Surrogates for Case Studies
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Shocking elephants: Fences and crop raiders in Laikipia District, Kenya
TL;DR: In this paper, an experimental fence was built along the boundary of Ol Ari Nyiro Ranch in western Laikipia in 1992, and the response of the elephants was monitored.
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Community-based methods to reduce crop loss to elephants: experiments in the communal lands of Zimbabwe
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The secretion of the temporal gland of the African elephant Loxodonta africana as an elephant repellent
TL;DR: Investigating the behavioural responses of African Elephants to volatile compounds to determine whether they are repelled by them in the Kruger National Park to find out if they are potentially useful as a repellent.
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