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Showing 1 to 20 of 82 for “"Human-wildlife"”.
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Evaluating Campylobacter spp at the human-wildlife interface
… for a significant burden of disease every year. Wildlife and domestic animals are considered important reservoirs, but little is known about host-factors driving pathogen infection dynamics in wild mammal populations. In countries like Botswana, there is significant spatial overlap between humans …
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Climate change and disease at the human-wildlife interface
… Assessments of local level impacts at the human-wildlife interface are imperative for stakeholders and policy makers, and empirical review of such research is undoubtedly necessary to understand the current state of the field, gaps of knowledge, and to identify future lines of research. In …
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Integrating social and ecological predictors of human-wildlife interactions to guide conservation and management
… processes are necessary to successfully address human-wildlife interactions. However, such approaches are hindered by challenges in aligning data types, communicating across disciplines, and applying social science information to conservation actions. My dissertation builds on emerging efforts to …
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Crop raiding and conflict: Farmers’ perceptions of human-wildlife interactions in Hoima district, Uganda
Conflict between humans and crop raiding wildlife is a growing problem, particularly in tropical, unmechanised farming communities where increased competition for resources intensifies the likelihood of human-wildlife interactions. However, conflict can arise as much from perceptions of risk as …
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Knowledge, attitudes, and opinions about human-wildlife conflicts held by community leaders in Virginia
… Extension agents) about their understanding of human-wildlife conflicts in their communities, and their receptivity to participating in co-management partnerships with regulatory agencies. Response rates for the mail survey of these four populations ranged from 25.2% to 75.9%. Knowledge of and …
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The foraging ecology of banded mongooses (Mungos mungo): Epidemiological and human-wildlife conflict implications
… troops with extremely close association with humans in a town, to troops associated with humans at tourist lodges within the Chobe National Park, to troops with no discernible association with humans within the national park and surrounding forest reserve. Researchers have few data on how …
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Framing human-wildlife conflict in the intermountain West: content analysis of daily newspapers to diverse audiences
… study examines framing of media coverage about human-wildlife conflicts and its implications for perception building by those audiences with less experience in the natural world. Data were collected via daily newspapers across the Intermountain West from 2010 to 2015. Results demonstrated that …
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Human-wildlife conflict and mobile phone use among Maasai pastoralists near Tarangire National Park, northern Tanzania
… I asked the questions: (1) How do phones affect human-wildlife interactions?; and (2) What are the effects of mobile phone use on measures of human-wildlife conflict (HWC)? This research uses a mixed methods approach to address these two questions and test the hypothesis that mobile phone use …
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Zooming in on human-wildlife coexistence: primate community responses in a shared agroforest landscape in Guinea-Bissau
In this thesis I explore how humans and nonhuman primates, including chimpanzees, share the space in a coastal forest-agriculture-village landscape mosaic at Cantanhez National Park (NP), southern Guinea-Bissau (West Africa). I integrate data from arboreal and terrestrial camera traps with habitat …
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Movement ecology and habitat use of Canada geese using major metropolitan areas in the context of human-wildlife conflicts
… as a game species and association with human-wildlife conflicts. The species’ ability to adapt to human-altered agricultural and urban landscapes has contributed to the success of temperate-breeding Canada goose populations. Differences in habitat resources and predation risks across the …
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The Effects of Human/Wildlife Conflict on the Potential for Community-Based Ecotourism in the Kasigau Region of Southeast Kenya
… bushmeat utilization, community attitudes and wildlife abundance. Samples of meat purchased from butcheries and meat markets are identified to species using molecular analysis, community attitudes are ascertained via written social surveys and transect sampling methods are used to determine the …
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An experimental assessment of the efficacy of falconry to mitigate human-wildlife conflict: Egyptian Geese Alopochen aegyptiaca at golf courses
Human-wildlife conflicts are increasing globally and are believed to be one of the most prevalent and intractable issues that face conservation biologists today. One such conflict is found on golf courses, where high numbers of geese can come into conflict with residents and members. In South …
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Wild carnivore habitat use and community ecology in a biodiversity hotspot and human-wildlife conflict with pumas and dogs across Chile
Habitat loss and fragmentation and human-wildlife conflicts, often resulting in retaliatory killing in response to livestock predation, are one of the main threats to wild felids worldwide, including pumas (Puma concolor). However, mesocarnivores are more abundant than large carnivores, live closer …
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Collaborative governance in the face of global change: a social science approach to working effectively at the human-wildlife-environment interface
… governance framework for addressing a range of wildlife and environmental conservation issues. Conservation threats in general are often wide-reaching and interdisciplinary, meaning their impacts extend beyond what one organization or field has the resources and capacity to manage. Collaborative …
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THE CORNERSTONE OF A CONSPIRACY: THE ROLE OF HUMAN-WILDLIFE PERCEPTIONS IN THE MASS DISBELIEF IN THE EBOLA VIRUS, NORTHERN SIERRA LEONE
… of it’s years as a hub for both the export of human beings and wildlife. Through four trips to Sierra Leone between 2017 and 2020 lasting between 5 weeks and four months, dives into private libraries and historical sources in multiple countries, and analysis of the digital media output around …
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Guarding dogs as a mitigation tool in human-wildlife conflict - case study: the Anatolian Shepherd Dog breeding project in Namaqua National Park
… as livestock guarding dogs to mitigate farmer–wildlife conflict and meet conservation ends. The case study involved Anatolian Shepherd dogs bred at the Anatolian Shepherd Dog Breeding Project in the Namaqua National Park, and placed mostly on farms and at stock posts near the Namaqua National …
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Tracking Pathogen Transmission at the Human-Wildlife Interface: Banded Mongoose (Mungos mungo) and Escherichia coli as a Model System in Chobe, Botswana
… diseases caused by pathogens transmitted from humans to wildlife, pose a significant health threat to wildlife populations. Many of these pathogens are also able to move from wildlife reservoirs to humans, termed zoonotic diseases, creating the possibility for bi-directional transmission …
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An investigation into the root of two of the main vulture threats: poisoning and belief-based use of vulture body parts in Southern Kenya
… on the IUCN Red List. Poisoning caused by human-wildlife conflicts is a major threat to vultures after belief-based use of their body parts. A total of 1387 interviews were administered within Maasai Mara pastoral community. We used the ‘Unmatched Count Technique' to estimate the prevalence …
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Social and Environmental History of Elephants and Human Groups in Southeast Zimbabwe, c. 1965-2020
… study reconstructs the intertwined histories of humans and elephants in Gonarezhou in the southeast of Zimbabwe over fifty-five years, from 1965 to 2020. It examines how political change, economic priorities, and shifting conservation ideologies continually reshaped the terms of coexistence …
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Birds and people in towns and cities : an exploration of human-bird relations in urban areas
… state a desire to bring more ‘nature’ and wildlife into towns and cities - for the perceived good of both people and wildlife. Yet many wildlife species that already live in urban areas are often seen as undesirable by people, and are caught up in the parallel discourses and practices of …
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