A5073336094- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Primate Behavior and Ecology
Centre For Wildlife Studies
2022
Balancing the competing, and often conflicting, needs of people wildlife in shared landscapes is a major challenge for conservation science policy worldwide. Connectivity critical persistence, but dispersing animals may come into conflict with people, leading to severe costs humans impeding connectivity. Thus, mitigation connectivity present an apparent dilemma conservation. We framework address this disentangle effects barriers animal movement conflict-induced mortality dispersers on extend...
Abstract Aim Connectivity is increasingly important for landscape‐scale conservation programmes. Yet there are obstacles to developing reliable connectivity maps, including paucity of data on animal use the non‐habitat matrix. Our aim was identify areas endangered Asian elephant Elephas maximus across a 21,210 km 2 region using empirical and recently developed movement models. Location Northeast India. Methods We interviewed 1,184 respondents, primarily farmers, residing our study region,...