A film by jasoprakas, every procedure failed to remove the elephant from road and at last it was done by jasoprakas. The assessment of the humanelephant conflict was carried out from january to march 2008 through the use of a questionnaire in 100 villages selected randomly from five provinces whose combined. Examining humanelephant conflict in southern africa. Depredation in human settlements is another major area of human elephant conflict occurring in small forest pockets, encroachments into elephant habitat, and on elephant migration routes. Crop damage was perceived as the most serious issue, followed by injury or death by encounters with elephants.
Over the last 100 years, african elephant populations have declined from 35 million to 470,000690,000 and asian elephant populations have declined from 100,000 to between 35,000 and 50,000. Examining human elephant conflict in southern africa. Pdf an assessment of the humanelephant conflict in sri. Human elephant conflict humanelephant conflict hec is dramatically on the rise and has become one of the major issues in the fight to save asias endangered elephants.
A gis based spatial prediction model for human elephant. Humanelephant conflict is a key example of such an interaction in which elephant crop raiding, infrastructural damage and. In fact in most countries cross the asian elephant s range it has replace poaching as the major human cause of elephant mortality. A gis based spatial prediction model for human elephant conflicts hec article pdf available in wildlife biology in practice 72 september 2011 with 1,121 reads how we measure reads.
Wellbeing impacts of humanelephant conflict in khumaga. Causes and options for coexistence abstract though african elephants loxodonta africana are listed as endangered by the international union for theconservation of nature and natural resources iucn, efforts to protect and conserve the species have been. However, human elephant conflict remains pervasive as the majority of existing prevention strategies are driven by sitespecific factors that only offer shortterm. View humanelephant conflict research papers on academia. Approaches to studying and mitigating conflict, however, are narrowly focused on visible impacts such. Habitat loss and conflict with people are among the biggest threats to their continued survival. Human elephant conflict is broadly defined as any interaction that results in negative effects on human, social, economic, or cultural life, on elephant conservation, or on the environment parker et al. A variety of management strategies have been developed and are practiced at different scales for preventing and mitigating human elephant conflict. Side by side, for habitat improvement, plantation of fodder and shade tree and establishment of salt lick have been carried out.
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