Current wildlife crime (Indian scenario): major challenges and prevention approaches

AK Rana, N Kumar - Biodiversity and Conservation, 2023 - Springer
The constant depletion of wild flora and fauna in India due to uncontrolled human activities,
natural habitat destruction and covert poaching activities is threatening the ecological …

Can humans and elephants coexist? A review of the conflict on Sumatra Island, Indonesia

W Kuswanda, R Garsetiasih, H Gunawan… - Diversity, 2022 - mdpi.com
The high rate of deforestation and fragmentation of elephant habitat on Sumatra Island has
triggered human-elephant conflict (HEC) in Sumatra Island, Indonesia. This conflict brings …

Effectiveness of protected areas influenced by socio-economic context

TT Gatiso, L Kulik, M Bachmann, A Bonn, L Bösch… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Protected area (PA) performance is thought to depend on effective conservation
management and favourable socio-economic context. However, increasing evidence of …

Land-use change is associated with multi-century loss of elephant ecosystems in Asia

S de Silva, T Wu, P Nyhus, A Weaver, A Thieme… - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
Understanding historic patterns of land use and land cover change across large temporal
and spatial scales is critical for developing effective biodiversity conservation management …

Mapping the connectivity–conflict interface to inform conservation

D Vasudev, RJ Fletcher Jr, N Srinivas… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Balancing the competing, and often conflicting, needs of people and wildlife in shared
landscapes is a major challenge for conservation science and policy worldwide …

Human casualties are the dominant cost of human–wildlife conflict in India

S Gulati, KK Karanth, NA Le… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Reducing the costs from human–wildlife conflict, mostly borne by marginal rural households,
is a priority for conservation. We estimate the mean species-specific cost for households …

There will be conflict–agricultural landscapes are prime, rather than marginal, habitats for Asian elephants

JA de la Torre, EP Wong, AM Lechner… - Animal …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Misconceptions about species' ecological preferences compromise conservation efforts.
Whenever people and elephants share landscapes, human–elephant conflicts (HEC) occur …

[HTML][HTML] Integrating multiple aspects of human–elephant conflict management in Dong Nai Biosphere Reserve, Vietnam

TTT Phan, L Chun-Hung - Global Ecology and Conservation, 2022 - Elsevier
Human–elephant conflict (HEC) is a multifaceted complex phenomenon, and managing it
requires multiple strategies. However, HEC remains prevalent in tropical areas due to a lack …

The sounds of life: How digital technology is bringing us closer to the worlds of animals and plants

K Bakker - 2022 - torrossa.com
Compared with our cousins on the Tree of Life, humans are poor listeners. 1 Below the
lower end of human hearing lies deep infrasound: the realm of thunder and tornadoes …

Sundaic elephants prefer habitats on the periphery of protected areas

JA de la Torre, C Cheah, AM Lechner… - Journal of Applied …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Protected areas (PAs) are a cornerstone of global conservation strategies. PAs, however,
are not equally effective for all threatened taxa, and it is important to understand taxa …