Adoption and Effectiveness of Traditional practices to manage Human-Elephant conflict situations
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2019
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Abstract
Human–elephant conflict is one of the main threats to both elephants and human
being. Farmers who had at least one wildlife conflict incidence in their lifetime were
selected for this study on Adoption and effectiveness of traditional practices to
manage human-elephant conflict situations. Coimbatore district of Tamil Nadu was
purposefully selected for the study as it ranked first in Human-elephant conflict
incidents in Tamil Nadu. Among the nine traditional practices studied, seven
traditional practices were adopted. Further boundary clearing (100 %) were found to
be most effective traditional method followed by noise making (31.3 %), use of
fire/smoke (20.5 %) and manual guarding (17.7 %). Although encouraging, these
results require more widespread testing and demonstration to ensure their
effectiveness at broader scales.
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TNV_IJDE_2019_10(2)22-25
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Veterinary Science