Reconciling farming and wild nature: Integrating human-wildlife coexistence into the land-sharing and land-sparing framework.

ABSTRACT: Land has traditionally been spared to protect biodiversity; however, this approach has not succeeded by itself and requires a complementary strategy in human-dominated landscapes: land-sharing. Human-wildlife conflicts are rampant in a land-sharing context where wildlife co-occur with crops or livestock, but whose resulting interactions adversely affect the wellbeing of land owners, ultimately impeding coexistence. Therefore, true land-sharing only works if coexistence is also considered an end goal. We reviewed the literature on land-sharing and found that conflicts have not yet found their way into the land-sharing/sparing framework, with wildlife and humans co-occurring without coexisting in a dynamic process. To successfully implement a land-sharing approach, we must first acknowledge

SUBMITTER: Crespin SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6346604 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature