People and Wildlife, Conflict or Co-existence?

by Edited by Rosie Woodroffe , Simon Thirgood , Alan Rabinowitz

• ISBN13: 9780521825054
• ISBN10: 0521825059
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-09-26
• 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 by	xiii
JOHN G. ROBINSON
Acknowledgements	xvi
1 The impact of human–wildlife conflict on natural systems	1	(12)
ROSIE WOODROFFE, SIMON THIRGOOD AND ALAN RABINOWITZ
2 The impact of human–wildlife conflict on human lives and livelihoods	13	(14)
SIMON THIRGOOD, ROSIE WOODROFFE AND ALAN RABINOWITZ
3 Characterization and prevention of attacks on humans	27	(22)
HOWARD QUIGLEY AND STEPHEN HERRERO
4 Non-lethal techniques for reducing depredation	49	(23)
URS BREITENMOSER, CHRISTOF ANGST, JEAN-MARC LANDRY, CHRISTINE BREITENMOSER-WÜRSTEN, JOHN D.C. LINNELL AND JEAN-MARC WEBER
5 Techniques to reduce crop loss: human and technical dimensions in Africa	72	(14)
FERREL V. OSBORN AND CATHERINE M. HILL
6 Evaluating lethal control in the management of human–wildlife conflict	86	(21)
ADRIAN TREVES AND LISA NAUGHTON-TREVES
7 Bearing the costs of human–wildlife conflict: the challenges of compensation schemes	107	(15)
PHILIP J. NYHUS, STEVEN A. OSOFSKY, PAUL FERRARO, FRANCINE MADDEN AND HANK FISCHER
8 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 AND CHRIS R. THOULESS
9 Does extractive use provide opportunities to offset conflicts between people and wildlife?	140	(22)
NIGEL LEADER-WILLIAMS AND JON M. HUTTON
10 Zoning as a means of mitigating conflicts with large carnivores: principles and reality	162	(14)
JOHN D.C. LINNELL, ERLEND BIRKELAND NILSEN, UNNI STØBET LANDE, IVAR HERFINDAL, JOHN ODDEN, KETIL SKOGEN, REIDAR ANDERSEN AND URS BREITENMOSER
11 From conflict to coexistence: a case study of geese and agriculture in Scotland	176	(16)
DAVID COPE, JULIET VICKERY AND MARCUS ROWCLIFFE
12 Hen harriers and red grouse: the ecology of a conflict	192	(17)
SIMON THIRGOOD AND STEVE REDPATH
13 Understanding and resolving the black-tailed prairie dog conservation challenge	209	(15)
RICHARD P. READING, LAUREN MCCAIN, TIM W. CLARK AND BRIAN J. MILLER
14 People and elephants in the Shimba Hills, Kenya	224	(15)
TIMOTHY J. KNICKERBOCKER AND JOHN WAITHAKA
15 Safari hunting and conservation on communal land in southern Africa	239	(13)
DALE LEWIS AND JOHN JACKSON
16 Socio-ecological factors shaping local support for wildlife: crop-raiding by elephants and other wildlife in Africa	252	(26)
LISA NAUGHTON-TREVES AND ADRIAN TREVES
17 Jaguars and livestock: living with the world's third largest cat	278	(8)
ALAN RABINOWITZ
18 People and predators in Laikipia District, Kenya	286	(19)
LAURENCE G. FRANK, ROSIE WOODROFFE AND MORDECAI O. OGADA
19 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 AND EVGENY SUVOROV
20 A tale of two countries: large carnivore depredation and compensation schemes in Sweden and Norway	323	(17)
JON E. SWENSON AND HENRICK ANDRÉN
21 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 AND JOHN K. OAKLEAF
22 Policies for reducing human–wildlife conflict: a Kenya case study	357	(16)
DAVID WESTERN AND JOHN WAITHAKA
23 An ecology-based policy framework for human–tiger coexistence in India	373	(15)
K. ULLAS KARANTH AND RAJESH GOPAL
24 The future of coexistence: resolving human–wildlife conflicts in a changing world	388	(18)
ROSIE WOODROFFE, SIMON THIRGOOD AND 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.