Engaging local stakeholders is a central feature of many biodiversity conservation and
natural resource management projects globally. Current literature on engagement …

In a world of shrinking habitats and increasing competition for natural resources, potentially
dangerous predators bring the challenges of coexisting with wildlife sharply into focus …

Although coexistence with wildlife is a key goal of conservation, little is known about it or
how to study it. By coexistence we mean a sustainable though dynamic state in which …

Humans have lived alongside and interacted with wild animals throughout evolutionary
history. Even though wild animals can damage property, or injure humans and domesticated …

Wildlife trafficking is an illegal industry that some estimate is worth $5–23 billion USD
annually; it occurs in over 120 countries around the world and involves multiple taxa of …

In an era of rapid environmental change, human–wildlife interactions (HWIs) are
increasingly complex and pervasive across ecosystems. Negative outcomes from such …

Community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) programmes are designed to
ensure that rural residents benefit from conservation initiatives. But where human-wildlife …

Human–wildlife conflicts have intensified by many folds and at different levels in recent
years. The same is true in the case of the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH), the roof of the world …

Botswana is one of the few countries considered to be a haven for globally threatened
wildlife species such as the African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) and vulnerable ones such as …

Using the concept of precarious livelihoods, this chapter examines the conflicts occurring
between people and wild animals in the Tonga communities of north-western Zimbabwe. It …