Attitudes towards carnivores: The views of emerging commercial farmers in Namibia

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Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 604-613

  Schumann, B ^a   Walls, J L ^b   Harley, V ^a  

^a CAPE PENINSULA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (South Africa)

^b Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Emerging commercial farmer; Human carnivore conflict; Namibia; Perceptions

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; CARNIVORE; COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY; FARMERS ATTITUDE; GOAT; INCENTIVE; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; PERCEPTION; PREDATION; REMOVAL EXPERIMENT; TRAINING;

NAMIBIA;

EID: 84867430729     PISSN: 00306053     EISSN: 13653008     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0030605311000779     Document Type: Article

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