Human-Wildlife Conflicts

Prioritizing livestock grazing right buyouts to safeguard Asiatic cheetahs from extinction
Livestock husbandry exerts major pressures on wildlife across the world. Large carnivores are particularly at risk because they are …
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Quantifying the relationship between prey density, livestock and illegal killing of leopards
  1. Many large mammalian carnivores are facing population declines due to illegal killing (e.g. shooting) and habitat modification (e.g. …
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Resource pulses and human–wildlife conflicts: linking satellite indicators and ground data on forest productivity to predict brown bear damages
Pulsed resources have prominent effects on community and ecosystem dynamics; however, there is little research on how resource pulses …
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Developing transboundary monitoring of the jaguar in southern South America
During 12–14 March 2018, researchers from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay met in Asuncion, Paraguay for the workshop …
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Integrated framework for stakeholder participation: Methods and tools for identifying and addressing human–wildlife conflicts
As wild areas disappear and agricultural lands expand, understanding how people and wildlife can coexist becomes increasingly …
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Survival and cause-specific mortality of European wildcat (Felis silvestris) across Europe
Humans have transformed most landscapes across the globe, forcing other species to adapt in order to persist in increasingly …
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Zoning has little impact on the seasonal diel activity and distribution patterns of wild boar (_Sus scrofa_) in an UNESCO Biosphere Reserve
Understanding the spatio-temporal distribution of ungulates is important for effective wildlife management, particularly for …
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Mapping connectivity and conflict risk to identify safe corridors for the Persian leopard

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Many large carnivores depend on habitat patches outside protected areas, as well as safe corridors between them. However, …
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Assessing niche overlap between domestic and threatened wild sheep to identify conservation priority areas
Populations of large ungulates are dwindling worldwide. This is especially so for wild sheep, which compete with livestock for forage, …
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From tropical shelters to temperate defaunation: The relationship between agricultural transition stage and the distribution of threatened mammals
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Agriculture is a key threat to biodiversity; however, its relationship with biodiversity patterns is understudied. Here, we evaluate …
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