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A platform for exchange to support stakeholders involved in human-wildlife coexistence challenges.
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Coping with human-wildlife interactions (e.g food protection, human safety and well-being; wildlife preservation) is a complex and urgent issue. It requires to combine and adapt locally diverse and complementary initiatives. Examples of toolbox and a search system are available below to help you creating your own toolbox to better tackle human-wildlife conflict and coexistence issues locally. It is important to note that some initiatives are very specific to a wildlife species and a context while others can be widely adapted.
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Test of two substances that have proven effective with other carnivores to deter pumas through conditioned taste aversion in order to reduce livestock predation.
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When breeders have to deal with depredation of Jaguar or Puma upon their livestock, they have the opportunity to become a "pilot farm" and thus freely set up a non-lethal measure. Both the project leader and the breeder choose together which measure seem to be relevant and adapte...
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Phone application to foster the declaration of attacks of large felids over livestock.
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Electric fence with an optimal design can be an effective detterent to prevent and reduce depredation of jaguar and puma upon livestock. Adequate design and maintenance is however essential to make this fence effective.
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Donkey can alert with a very loud noise when a predator gets close to the livestock herd and possibly dissuade the animal to attack.
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Building a successful network between stakeholders to prevent inaction towards the human jaguar conflict present in the area and to have better coordinated efforts to protect this threatened species.
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An intricate lighting system on homesteads to deter predators from attacking livestock at night. This light can be set up around the area to protect but also directly around the neck of livestock to protect from predators.
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Booklet with advice and measures to deal with coexistence issues between Human and Felid.
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The territory of French Guyana is under agricultural development. Thus, many breeders may have to cope with the predation of jaguars and pumas upon their livestock. This guide has thus been realized to advice breeders, particularly those who have not yet set up, about practices a...
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We aim to adopt craftsmanship as a creative tool and a livelihood initiative, enabling the Andean Cat Alliance (Alianza Gato Andino – AGA) to support wildlife conservation – particularly of the Andean cat – through increased engagement of local people while simultaneously r...
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When a rural landowner participating in NJP and Naturalia’s joint Viviendo con Felinos project produces a photograph of a jaguar on his ranch, he’ll be paid a cash value equal to the long-standing bounty offered locally for dead jaguars. And since that same jaguar – kept al...
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Autonomous light devices composed of 9 LEDs (white and blue) which light up and flash randomly thus simulating the presence of a person around the herd of livestock to protect.
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Cattle losses induced by jaguars could be compensated by a system of voluntary donations from tourists
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The design of the electric fence introduced here was tested by the NGO Panthera to prevent felines such as Jaguar and Puma from attacking livestock. The number of wires, their height and voltage are 3 parameters
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- 5 wires at 20cm, 40c...
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The Kangal or Anatolian Shepherd is a breed of dog of Turkish origin. It has been used for thousands of years as a guard dog during the transhumance of cattle. It is a muscular, powerful race, with a large head and a robust body. The male measures between 80 and 100 cm at the wit...
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Wildlife Friendly™ certification is a global program providing best practice guidelines for farming, ranching, and other enterprises who seek to generate sustainable livelihoods while protecting key species of biodiversity. Our certification programs, also including species-fo...
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In this study, they "evaluated the use of local, medium-sized, mixed-breed guarding dogs to reduce predation and retaliatory killing of carnivores. They interviewed 64 herders, and delivered 37 puppies to 25 herders. Most economic loss was attributed to cougars (Puma concolor) an...
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Community workshops with 133 members of 7 communities and surveys with 25 multidisciplinary experts from government, nongovernmental organizations, and academia provided iterative data to design a plan of incentives
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Interventions and participatory workshops in an agricultural college with future professionals in the breeding environment with the production of information and technical media (e.g., specifications protection measures) intended for breeders to prevent and limit attacks of cats ...
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To facilitate the long-term sustainability of this measure, Greek eNGOs initiated an extensive consultation and negotiation processes with national competent authorities, mainly the Ministry of Rural Development and Food so that financial support for the measure would be included...
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From my lion work in the past, 90% of cattle killed by lions are killed when grazing without a herder. When I was a child in Zimbabwe, I never saw a herd of cattle alone without a herder. Therefore, something has changed.
When we ask what has changed, the answer is that t...
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Program to foster donation in order to support people in rural areas who shoulder the real cost of co-existing with wolves, brown bears and lynx with prompt and practical assistance to resolve conflicts.
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16 years ago Pedro and Ana decided to move to Castro Laboreiro where many of the wolves in Portugal live. They never regretted this move - today they have an ecotourism company and offer visitors a unique experience by riding horses through the ‘land of the wolves’.
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The Village Tiger Response Team (VTRT) is a community driven mechanism. Their main roles are to manage the Human - Tiger interactions issues inside village and to provide data on a regular basis to manage the WildTeam’s Human-Tiger Conflict (HTC) database. But over the time the...
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Ex-post compensation covering up to 100% of the market value of livestock depredated by wolves and up to 60% of the value of livestock depredated by dogs.
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that compensation may fail to improve tolerance toward carnivores unless it...
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Wildlife Friendly™ certification is a global program providing best practice guidelines for farming, ranching, and other enterprises who seek to generate sustainable livelihoods while protecting key species of biodiversity. Our certification programs, also including species-fo...
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Both the Marsican brown bear (Ursus arctos marsicanus) and the Italian honey bee (Apis mellifera ligustica) are threatened by the alteration of ecosystems caused by humans. If the bear is critically endangered and on the verge of extinction, then the bees are not safe either. The...
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A participatory nation-wide think-tank (Campo Grande Group) where people linked to several sectors related to the conflict are participating. The goal is to gather some agreements and negotiated propositions to address conflict and de-escalate the tension generated by this proble...
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Working as a shepherd in the Pyrenees is a challenge since bears are around. Yannick Lamazou produces cheese up in the mountains in the National Park and found a good way of promoting bears and sheep at the same time.
Yannick Lamazou is the son of a shepherd who has ...
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An insurance scheme has been created through partners (EU) support and also with the villagers subscribing to the insurance with 2500FCFA/per hectare/year (4$/hectare/year) to insured their fields. Then during the devastation, the policyholders notify the park managers in order t...
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When a rural landowner participating in NJP and Naturalia’s joint Viviendo con Felinos project produces a photograph of a jaguar on his ranch, he’ll be paid a cash value equal to the long-standing bounty offered locally for dead jaguars. And since that same jaguar – kept al...
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The scheme provides cash relief of 1 million NRs (1 USD equivalent to NRs 115 in 2019) in case of human deaths to victim family. The cash relief also compensates for crop damages, property loss and livestock loss. The scheme includes 14 wildlife species namely Bear, Tiger, Rhino,...
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Insurance to offset other costs related to depredation (such as abortions, loss of milk production and subsidies per livestock head)
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Human - Tiger conflict is one of the most critical issues in tiger conservation and also a serious problem for human safety (attacks on humans and livestock. It thus requires a focus on effective mitigation measures. Two of these measures used in Nepal have been assessed: compens...
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Cattle losses induced by jaguars could be compensated by a system of voluntary donations from tourists
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With the objective of alleviating this situation, The Corbett Foundation (TCF), a conservation NGO working in India, launched the Cattle Compensation Scheme in 1995 to give interim and on-the-spot financial assistance to villagers, whose cattle have been killed by a tiger or a le...
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We aim to adopt craftsmanship as a creative tool and a livelihood initiative, enabling the Andean Cat Alliance (Alianza Gato Andino – AGA) to support wildlife conservation – particularly of the Andean cat – through increased engagement of local people while simultaneously r...
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