People and Wildlife, Conflict or Co-existence?

by Edited by Rosie Woodroffe , Simon Thirgood , Alan Rabinowitz

• ISBN13: 9780521532037
• ISBN10: 0521532035
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-09-19
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Human-wildlife conflict is a major issue in conservation. As people encroach into natural habitats, and as conservation efforts restore wildlife to areas where they may have been absent for generations, contact between people and wild animals is growing. Some species, even the beautiful and endangered, can have serious impacts on human lives and livelihoods. Tigers kill people, elephants destroy crops and African wild dogs devastate sheep herds left unattended. Historically, people have responded to these threats by killing wildlife wherever possible, and this has led to the endangerment of many species that are difficult neighbours. The urgent need to conserve such species, however, demands coexistence of people and endangered wildlife. This book presents a variety of solutions to human-wildlife conflicts, including novel and traditional farming practices, offsetting the costs of wildlife damage through hunting and tourism, and the development of local and national policies.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	viii
Foreword	xiii
John G. Robinson
Acknowledgements	xvi
The impact of human--wildlife conflict on natural systems	1	(12)
Rosie Woodroffe
Simon Thirgood
Alan Rabinowitz
The impact of human--wildlife conflict on human lives and livelihoods	13	(14)
Simon Thirgood
Rosie Woodroffe
Alan Rabinowitz
Characterization and prevention of attacks on humans	27	(22)
Howard Quigley
Stephen Herrero
Non-lethal techniques for reducing depredation	49	(23)
Urs Breitenmoser
Christof Angst
Jean-Marc Landry
Christine Breitenmoser-Worsten
John D. C. Linnell
Jean-Marc Weber
Techniques to reduce crop loss: human and technical dimensions in Africa	72	(14)
Ferrel V. Osborn
Catherine M. Hill
Evaluating lethal control in the management of human--wildlife conflict	86	(21)
Adrian Treves
Lisa Naughton-Treves
Bearing the costs of human--wildlife conflict: the challenges of compensation schemes	107	(15)
Philip J. Nyhus
Steven A. Osofsky
Paul Ferraro
Francine Madden
Hank Fischer
Increasing the value of wildlife through non-consumptive use? Deconstructing the myths of ecotourism and community-based tourism in the tropics	122	(18)
Matthew J. Walpole
Chris R. Thouless
Does extractive use provide opportunities to offset conflicts between people and wildlife?	140	(22)
Nigel Leader-Williams
Jon M. Hutton
Zoning as a means of mitigating conflicts with large carnivores: principles and reality	162	(14)
John D. C. Linnell
Erlend Birkeland Nilsen
Unni Stobet Lande
Ivar Herfindal
John Odden
Ketil Skogen
Reidar Andersen
Urs Breitenmoser
From conflict to coexistence: a case study of geese and agriculture in Scotland	176	(16)
David Cope
Juliet Vickery
Marcus Rowcliffe
Hen harriers and red grouse: the ecology of a conflict	192	(17)
Simon Thirgood
Steve Redpath
Understanding and resolving the black-tailed prairie dog conservation challenge	209	(15)
Richard P. Reading
Lauren Mccain
Tim W. Clark
Brian J. Miller
People and elephants in the Shimba Hills, Kenya	224	(15)
Timothy J. Knickerbocker
John Waithaka
Safari hunting and conservation on communal land in southern Africa	239	(13)
Dale Lewis
John Jackson
Socio-ecological factors shaping local support for wildlife: crop-raiding by elephants and other wildlife in Africa	252	(26)
Lisa Naughton-Treves
Adrian Treves
Jaguars and livestock: living with the world's third largest cat	278	(8)
Alan Rabinowitz
People and predators in Laikipia District, Kenya	286	(19)
Laurence G. Frank
Rosie Woodroffe
Mordecai O. Ogada
Searching for the coexistence recipe: a case study of conflicts between people and tigers in the Russian Far East	305	(18)
Dale Miquelle
Igor Nikolaev
John Goodrich
Boris Litvinov
Evgeny Smirnov
Evgeny Suvorov
A tale of two countries: large carnivore depredation and compensation schemes in Sweden and Norway	323	(17)
Jon E. Swenson
Henrick Andren
Managing wolf-human conflict in the northwestern United States	340	(17)
Edward E. Bangs
Joseph A. Fontaine
Michael D. Jimenez
Thomas J. Meier
Elizabeth H. Bradley
Carter C. Niemeyer
Douglas W. Smith
Curt M. Mack
Val Asher
John K. Oakleaf
Policies for reducing human-wildlife conflict: a Kenya case study	357	(16)
David Western
John Waithaka
An ecology-based policy framework for human-tiger coexistence in India	373	(15)
K. Ullas Karanth
Rajesh Gopal
The future of coexistence: resolving human--wildlife conflicts in a changing world	388	(18)
Rosie Woodroffe
Simon Thirgood
Alan Rabinowitz
References	406	(72)
Index	478

Excerpts

"This book presents a variety of solutions to human-wildlife conflicts, including novel and traditional farming practices, offsetting the costs of wildlife damage through hunting and tourism, and the development of local and national policies."--BOOK JACKET.