Living with wildlife and mitigating conflicts around three indian protected areas

Environmental Management

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1320-1332

  Karanth, Krithi K ^a,b,c,f   Naughton Treves, Lisa ^d   Defries, Ruth ^a   Gopalaswamy, Arjun M ^b,e  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^b Centre for Wildlife Studies   (India)

^c WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^f Dipartimento dei Sistemi Agroforestali e del Territorio   (Italy)

Author keywords

Crop raiding; India; Livestock predation; Mitigation; Park; People; Tolerance; Wildlife

Indexed keywords

INDIA; LIVESTOCK PREDATION; MITIGATION; PEOPLE; WILDLIFE;

CONSERVATION; CROPS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FITS AND TOLERANCES; PARKING; SURVEYS; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

ANIMALS;

CARNIVORE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CROP; LIVESTOCK; MITIGATION; PREDATION; PROTECTED AREA; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

ADULT; ANIMAL KILLING; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CARNIVORE; CONFLICT MANAGEMENT; CROP MANAGEMENT; ECOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FEMALE; GRAZING; HARVEST PERIOD; HERBIVORE; HUMAN; INDIA; INTERVIEW; LIVESTOCK; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; WILDLIFE; WILDLIFE CONSERVATION; AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; CARNIVORA; HERBIVORY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; PROCEDURES; PUBLIC OPINION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WILD ANIMAL;

INDIA; KANHA NATIONAL PARK; KARNATAKA; MADHYA PRADESH; NAGARHOLE NATIONAL PARK; RAJASTHAN; RANTHAMBHORE NATIONAL PARK;

ANIMALIA;

ADULT; AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; CARNIVORA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FEMALE; HERBIVORY; HUMANS; INDIA; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; PUBLIC OPINION;

EID: 84889884999     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-013-0162-1     Document Type: Article

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