Senthilkumar, KMathialagan, PManivannan, C, et al.,TANUVAS2021-09-142021-09-142019https://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810175731TNV_IJDE_2019_10(2)22-25Human–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.EnglishVeterinary ScienceArticle