Shifts in the conflict-coexistence continuum: Exploring social-ecological determinants of human-elephant interactions.

ABSTRACT: In Morogoro Region of south-central Tanzania, loss of crops and safety concerns due to elephants compromises livelihoods in many rural communities relying on subsistence agriculture. Using a social-ecological system framework to examine conflict-coexistence between people and elephants, this paper explores drivers that influence human-elephant interaction and subsistence farmer attitudes towards elephants in 10 villages from three different districts. Surveys and interviews document experiences interacting with elephants along with direct and indirect costs incurred in sharing the landscape, revealing different tolerance levels by residents of subject communities towards elephants that have important implications for elephant conservation. Rather than uniformly negative beliefs about eleph

SUBMITTER: Malley GS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10047539 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature