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Nature & Faune

Human-Wildlife Conflicts

Year of publication 2007

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Author M. Laverdière; L. Bakker, A. Ndeso-Atanga;Regional Office for Africa

Product type Book (series)

Series title Nature and Faune

Series number 2026-5611

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The theme of the current edition is 'Human-Wildlife Conflicts'. Whereas conflicts between people and wild animals have always occurred throughout history, population growth and increased demand for natural resources as well as the decrease in natural habitat have aggravated the problem in many places. Wildlife species invade human settlements and raid crops, cause damage to personal belongings, injure or kill livestock and in some regrettable instances even injure and kill pe ople. Humans respond by retaliation killings, indiscriminate poisoning and increased poaching of wild animals. The causes of the conflict cannot be eliminated easily or quickly, and human-wildlife conflicts are among one of the main threats to the survival and conservation of various wild species.

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