Assessing the failure of a community-based human-wildlife conflict mitigation project in Budongo Forest Reserve, Uganda

ORYX

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 177-184

  Webber, A D ^a   Hill, C M ^a   Reynolds, V ^b  

^a OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Budongo Forest Reserve; Crop protection; Human wildlife conflict; Primates; Uganda

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; ASSESSMENT METHOD; ENDANGERED SPECIES; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; MITIGATION; PRIMATE; TRAPPING;

AFRICA; BUDONGO FOREST RESERVE; EAST AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; UGANDA; WESTERN PROVINCE [UGANDA];

ANIMALIA; PRIMATES;

EID: 34547413391     PISSN: 00306053     EISSN: 13653008     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0030605307001792     Document Type: Article

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