Mapping conflict hotspots as leopards adapt to unlikely habitats outside protected areas
Analysis of leopard attacks on livestock offers clues to potential human-leopard conflict hotspots in North Bengal in eastern Himalayas and Pauri Garhwal in western Himalayas.
Themes: Conservation, Parks, Agriculture
Leopards have adapted to using human-modified landscapes such as tea gardens, sugarcane fields and farmlands and they can survive in unusual, multi-use, fragmented vegetation patches outside protected areas. The study finds the risk of a leopard killing livestock increased within a heterogeneous landscape matrix consisting of both closed and open habitats (very dense forests, moderate dense forests, open forests, scrubland and non-forests).
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Aug 06, 2020
The Serengeti-Mara squeeze.
one of the world’s most iconic ecosystems under pressure.
Themes: Agriculture, Conservation, Policy, Parks, Pastoralists
New finding alters our view on what is needed to protect biodiversity.
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Apr 01, 2019
Taking Some of the Pain out of Human–Wildlife Conflict
Tigers, leopards, elephants and more wreak havoc on farms and villages in India, but a compensation program can ease the sting—and conserve the animals
Themes: Conservation, Agriculture, Human rights
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Feb 07, 2019
Brazil’s Temer threatens constitutional indigenous land rights.
Themes: Agriculture, Human rights, Indigenous people, Conservation
President Temer, influenced by the rural lobby in congress whose votes he needs to not be tried by the Supreme Court on corruption charges, has okayed new criteria meant to delegitimize indigenous land boundary claims, legal experts say.- One rule rejects any indigenous demarcation of land where Indians were not physically present on a traditional territory in 1988, which would disqualify many legitimate claims. - Another allows government to undertake “strategic” public works, such as dams and roads, without indigenous consent, violating the International Labor Organization’s 169 Convention, signed by Brazil.- The administration also introduced a bill likely to be passed by congress that reclassifies 349,000 hectares (1,347 square miles) of Jamanxim National Forest in the Amazon, gutting protections, allowing economic activities — logging, ranching, farming and mining — and legitimizing land grabs there.
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Aug 02, 2017
People and wildlife now threatened by rapid destruction of central America's forests.
A new study by WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) in Central America has found that cattle ranching and other anthropogenic activities represent a major threat to the region's remaining rainforests.
Themes: Agriculture, Conservation
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Jul 29, 2017
Of human-wildlife interactions.
Human-wildlife conflict management still remains a grey area for conservation practitioners.
Themes: Conservation, Parks, Agriculture
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Jul 07, 2017
Biodiversity protection versus Indigenous Peoples’ rights to food access in La Amistad Biosphere Reserve, Costa Rica
How do protected areas affect indigenous peoples’ rights to access traditional food?
Themes: Conservation, Indigenous people, Human rights, Parks, Agriculture
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Oct 27, 2016
Kenya's Ogiek people forced from homes amid 'colonial approach to conservation'
Indigenous hunter-gatherers are being violently evicted from what they claim are their ancestral lands as unrest takes hold over land rights in Kenya’s forests
Themes: Agriculture, Conservation, Human rights, Indigenous people, Poverty
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Aug 18, 2016