Community, lions, livestock and money: A spatial and social analysis of attitudes to wildlife and the conservation value of tourism in a human-carnivore conflict in Botswana

Biological Conservation

Volumn 142, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2718-2725

  Hemson, Graham ^a   Maclennan, Seamus ^a   Mills, Gus ^b   Johnson, Paul ^a   Macdonald, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b The Tony and Lisette Lewis Foundation South Africa   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Benefit; Cattle; Communities; Compensation; Predation

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CARNIVORE; CATTLE; FELID; LIVESTOCK FARMING; NATURE CONSERVATION; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TOURISM;

AFRICA; BOTSWANA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

ANIMALIA; BOS; CANIS FAMILIARIS; EQUIDAE; EQUUS ASINUS; PANTHERA; PANTHERA LEO;

EID: 69249215116     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2009.06.024     Document Type: Article

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