Multiscale Factors Affecting Human Attitudes toward Snow Leopards and Wolves

Conservation Biology

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1657-1666

  Suryawanshi, Kulbhushansingh R ^a,b,d   Bhatia, Saloni ^a,b   Bhatnagar, Yash Veer ^a,b   Redpath, Stephen ^c   Mishra, Charudutt ^a,b  

^a NATURE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION   (India)

^b Snow Leopard Trust   (United States)

^c Universities of Bath and Aberdeen   (United Kingdom)

^d MANIPAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Canis lupus; Carnivore; Human wildlife conflicts; Panthera uncia; Wildlife acceptance

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; CANID; CARNIVORE; COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY CARE; FELID; LIVESTOCK; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLICY MAKING; SOCIAL ORGANIZATION; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; WILD POPULATION;

HIMACHAL PRADESH; INDIA; SPITI VALLEY;

CANIDAE; CANIS LUPUS; UNCIA UNCIA;

ANIMAL; ATTITUDE; BUDDHISM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FELIDAE; HUMAN; INDIA; SOCIOECONOMICS; WOLF;

ANIMALS; ATTITUDE; BUDDHISM; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FELIDAE; HUMANS; INDIA; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WOLVES;

EID: 84912523270     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cobi.12320     Document Type: Article

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