Insights on human-wildlife coexistence from social science and Indigenous and traditional knowledge.

ABSTRACT: Much work on human-wildlife conflict focuses on safeguarding wildlife from humans and vice versa, protecting humans, their crops, livestock, and property from wildlife, and mitigating negative, sometimes lethal encounters. The emphasis is on conflict, a framing that reinforces human-nature dualisms and instills the notion of humans and wild animals as adversaries. Although human-wildlife interactions are sometimes negative, they can also be neutral, coadaptive, and mutually beneficial. They can demonstrate coexistence. Conservationists have tended to overlook or simplify such relations. They have either failed to define coexistence or characterized it as the outcome of externally driven conservation strategies. Conflict has been perceived as the norm, with coexistence a distant ideal. This

SUBMITTER: Jolly H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11959325 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature