Human and Wildlife Conflicts
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SYSMAS : a handy software to manage by SMS & Web interface notifications on HWC & other wildlife events…
Human-wildlife conflicts have drastically increased around conservation areas in Africa in recent decades, thus undermining the peaceful cohabitation of wildlife populations and rural human settlements. Mitigation packages ... -
An innovative chili dispenser to establish memory fence dynamics at crop-wildlife interfaces for effective long term human-elephant conflict mitigation
With elephant populations in southern Africa increasing at 5% per annum, local communities living in marginal land adjacent to protected areas are faced with increasing occurrences of human-elephant conflict. If this ... -
The efforts of the USDA National Rabies Management Program for controlling rabies on private and public land
Management of rabies in wildlife populations is complex and provides unique challenges for wildlife managers: one of the largest is the majority of land in the US where rabies occurs in wildlife is private. Rabies virus ... -
Understanding people's willingness to implement measures to manage human-bear conflict in Florida
In 2009 the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) began surveying individuals who reported human-bear conflicts. The purpose of this survey is to assess whether individuals take actions recommended by the ... -
Balancing the act : dilemmas associated with the eradication of Acacia mearnsii from the Golden Gate Highlands National Park, South Africa
Despite the huge investment that has been made in the control and eradication of Acacia mearnsii there is little evidence to show that the spread of this species will be reversed within the foreseeable future. In South ... -
From opposition to opportunity : managing prairie dogs in southern Utah
Utah Prairie Dogs (Cymomys parvidens) have been listed, first as an endangered, then as a threatened species, under the Endangered Species Act since its inception in 1973. The species exists only in southern Utah, where ... -
Livestock management for coexistence with large carnivores, healthy land and productive ranches : a viewpoint
Livestock – large carnivore coexistence occurs within a broader context of social-ecological systems, specifically ranches and rural communities. Coexistence practitioners can be more effective by expanding from a direct ... -
Human and wildlife conflicts
The National Wildlife Research Center (NWRC) is the research arm of the USDA's Wildlife Services program. The NWRC is charged with developing methods to resolve conflicts between humans and wildlife, spanning the areas of ...
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