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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Raiding"”.
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Primate crop raiding in Uganda: actual and perceived risks around Budongo Forest Reserve
… the actual and perceived risk of primate crop raiding around Budongo Forest Reserve, northwest Uganda during 2004/2005. Weekly farm monitoring established that at least seven wild species damage crops. and primates (primarily baboons) are responsible for forty percent of all raids. The creation …
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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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Spatial Distribution of Human Elephant Conflict (HEC) and Characterization of Crop-Raiding Elephants in Kasigau Region, Kenya
… herds in terms of herd size responsible for crop-raiding in Kasigau. The study was generally guided by two working a priori hypotheses: (1) farms near the bush edge or livestock watering points will experience more crop raiding incidences than those farther away, and (2) given the geographical …
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Metabolic changes to GLUT-4 levels in urban Chacma baboons on the Cape Peninsula: raiding their way to type 2 diabetes?
The Chacma baboons (Papio ursinus) of the Cape Peninsula are established raiders of human food, leading to widespread conflict between this intelligent, adaptable species and humans. The modern Western diet that these baboons have become exposed to has many deleterious effects on health, including …
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'A sure defence against the foe '? : maritime predation & British commercial policy during the Spanish American Wars of Independence, 1810-1830
… this task is to establish the impact of commerce raiding activity on the British mercantile marine, which has thus far eluded historians. Chapters one and two of the following study are dedicated to this purpose. In chapter one, the key findings of previous works with regard to the organizational …
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Essays on conflict, cooperation and economic development
… while the relationship between forage and raiding is less clear. There is some indication that forage-scarcity motivates tribes to carry out raids and forage-scarce sublocations appear to be more vulnerable to raids and livestock losses, but these results are not robust to all …
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How vertebrate communities affect quality and yield of macadamia farms in Levubu, South Africa
… between biocontrol by bats and birds and crop raiding by vervet monkeys in South African macadamia orchards, using vertebrate exclusion experiments. Crop quality and yield were assessed and extrapolated to income values. The study furthermore focused in more detail on the impact of orchard edge …
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Elephant endurance in Aceh: the effects of habitat disturbance and land cover change on the conservation of Sumatran elephants in Aceh, Indonesia
… influences. Moreover, the occurrence of crop raiding by elephants was evaluated against the spatial configuration of the forests and forest disturbances. Finally, the effectiveness of different forest conservation strategies was assessed. Niche modelling revealed that elephants are mainly …
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Fruit bat diet, foraging ecology and seed dispersal in the Vhembe Biosphere Reserve.
… how to reduce crop damage. It also assesses crop raiding by fruit bats and other crop raider animals, and their activity patterns in response to litchi abundance during the harvest season using camera traps. This study also used a vertebrate exclusion experiment to quantify the effect of excluding …
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Defend Your Coast: Network Analysis of Crusader Fortifications and Settlements Within the Kyrenia Region of Cyprus
… Scholars believe that during times of heavy raiding coastal settlements are abandoned in favor of inland settlements. This theory has not been tested using Geographic Information System (GIS). This study used GIS to test the area of influence raiders could exert inland during a raid. Based on …
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Ethnoprimatology of Urban Cebus Yuracus: An evaluation of Human-non-human interactions and local perceptions in Misahualli, Ecuador
… the consequences of urban provisioning or raiding by non-human primates provides an opportunity to learn more about primate behavioral flexibility and generate solutions to mitigate the effects of potential conflict at the human-nonhuman primate interface.
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A Unique Hell in Southwestern Virginia: Confederate Guerrillas and the Defense of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad
… combatants defending the region from invading or raiding Union Army forces. Simmering for the entirety of the war, this conflict revolved around the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad (VandT), a critical railway that ran through southwestern Virginia and connected the southwestern Confederacy with …
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Into the Den of Evils: The Genizaros in Colonial New Mexico
… groups who were captured in the Indian wars and raiding expeditions of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and in turn sold to New Mexicans as servants to be instructed in Hispanic customs and baptized as Christians. The genízaro experience in New Mexico was an ongoing practice of cultural …
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Into the Den of Evils: The Genizaros in Colonial New Mexico
… groups who were captured in the Indian wars and raiding expeditions of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and in turn sold to New Mexicans as servants to be instructed in Hispanic customs and baptized as Christians. The genízaro experience in New Mexico was an ongoing practice of cultural …
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The costs of human elephant conflict: understanding local perceptions, vulnerabilities and impacts associated with human elephant conflict in Subulussalam, Aceh, Sumatra.
… are increasingly encountering humans and raiding farmland. Such events can be catastrophic for both local people and elephants, occasionally leading to fatalities. The importance of mitigating these conflicts is evident, but in order to do so effectively, the impacts of HEC on local …
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Domestic slaves in bulozi: the transition from slavery to freedom, 1780 - 1925.
… of slaves and these were mostly acquired through raiding weaker ethnic groups such as the Makalahali, Kalanga, Kwangali, the Nkoya of chief Katusi, and the Ila and Tonga people. However, the study argues that during the reigns of some kings like Sebitwane of the Kololo, some weaker tribes such as …
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Domestic slaves in bulozi: the transition from slavery to freedom, 1780 - 1925.
… of slaves and these were mostly acquired through raiding weaker ethnic groups such as the Makalahali, Kalanga, Kwangali, the Nkoya of chief Katusi, and the Ila and Tonga people. However, the study argues that during the reigns of some kings like Sebitwane of the Kololo, some weaker tribes such as …
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Conservation genetics of conflict in the Asian elephant, Elephas maximus
… primarily in the forms of poaching and crop-raiding, as well indirect conflict such as habitat loss and fragmentation. Due to the elephant’s elusive behavior within their dense vegetative habitat and the fact that their large size presents handling dangers to researchers and elephants, …
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The state and upland populations: Ivory, Cattle and Guns in Nomansland 1820-1880
… these descriptions were closely tied to cattle raiding in the area and that they served as justification for the imposition of colonial order through a series of treaty negotiations in the 1840s and 1850s which granted control of the area to Faku in 1844, ceded the area from him in 1850 and …
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Conservation of vervets, Africa’s most ubiquitous primates
… systematic literature reviews (habitat use, crop-raiding), analysis of CITES trade records (international trade, trophy hunting), websites and internet posts (trophy hunting) and direct observations at the Vervet Monkey Foundation (VMF) in South Africa (rescue centre intake). Vervets occupy …
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