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Building communities’ capacities to coexist with wildlife

Year of publication 2022

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 12p.

Author ​FAO; IUCN SSC Human-Wildlife Conflict and Coexistence Specialist Group;

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Brochure, flyer, fact-sheet

Synopsis (short abstract) The case study comes from Assam, India, where the pilot project was established between Chester Zoo (then North of England Zoological Society), United Kingdom and EcoSystems - India, a regional non-governmental organization (NGO), to learn about the conflict and determine the best way towards sustainable solutions with the impacted communities. This pilot phase became the catalyst for the Assam Haathi Project, which worked with local communities to understand the situation further and identify solutions for addressing the issue collaboratively. The project ran for 14 years, from 2004 to 2018, and conducted many activities to address the human-elephant conflict. This case study highlights a subset of activities that have been conducted by the Assam Haathi Project.

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FAO and IUCN SSC HWCCSG. 2022. Building communities capacities to coexist with wildlife. Rome, FAO

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