Let Us Give Voice to Local Farmers: Preferences for Farm-Based Strategies to Enhance Human-Elephant Coexistence in Africa.

ABSTRACT: Local communities surrounding wildlife corridors and natural reserves often face challenges related to human-wildlife coexistence. To mitigate the challenges and ensure the long-term conservation of wildlife, it is important to engage local communities in the design of conservation strategies. By conducting 480 face-to-face interviews in 30 villages along and adjacent to the Selous-Niassa Wildlife Corridor (Tanzania), we quantified farmers' preferences for farm-based measures to mitigate African elephant damage using choice experiments. Results show that farmers considered no action the least preferred option, revealing that they are open to trying different measures. The most preferred management strategy matched with the preferences of wildlife rangers in the area, suggesting low concern

SUBMITTER: Montero Botey M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9311559 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature