Human-animal Conflict
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Uttarakhand is mapping snakes and training local communities to reduce conflict between them
The nature of human-snake conflict in the mountains is different from that in the plains.
Shivani Pathak
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Pune’s encounters with two gaurs have lessons for rest of India about urban wildlife management
In the first instance, a large crowd hampered the rescue operation, leading to the bison’s death.
Shatakshi Gawade
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How locals respond to predators in the Himalayas, where human-wildlife conflict is commonplace
People’s perception of the risk posed by wolves and snow leopards played a role in their attitudes toward the carnivores.
Aathira Perinchery
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In parts of South India, herds of bison are coming out of forests to forage in farms
Gaurs are increasingly being found outside protected areas.
Arathi Menon
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Why golden jackals have made home in Kolkata and Guwahati airports
As habitats shrink, large tracts of unused land around aerodromes that act as safety buffers are attracting wildlife.
Gurvinder Singh
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An electric fence on the Nepal border is exacerbating human-elephant conflicts in India
The barrier has abruptly cut off tuskers’ transboundary movement.
Avijan Saha & Sahana Ghosh
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How deforestation in Chhattisgarh is increasing human-elephant conflicts in Madhya Pradesh
Tuskers are migrating across state lines into territory where the locals don’t have the knowhow to coexist with them.
Manish Chandra Mishra
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Tourism threatens coexistence between humans and free-roaming leopards at Rajasthan’s Bera
While livestock constitutes most of the big cat’s prey, locals consider the carnivore as gifts of God.
Azera Parveen Rahman
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India’s environment ministry wants to reduce human-elephant conflict by erecting walls and fences
Alarmed environmentalists warn that the ‘best practices’ will be detrimental to the protection of elephants.
Mayank Aggarwal
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India has 60 species of poisonous snakes, but only a single type of antivenom. It’s not enough
Most of the venom used for treatment comes from one source – Chennai.
Karthikeyan Hemalatha
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Rampant mining is forcing Chhattisgarh’s elephants into human land. Can a new forest reserve help?
The new 1,995 sq km Lemru reserve may return space to the animals, but it will not solve the ecologically disruptive mining the region faces.
Asha Verma
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Why don’t trenches and fences stop elephants from entering farms? An Indian researcher explains
To prevent elephants from crossing forest boundaries, officials have tried multiple methods. But the elephants have always managed to find a way across.
Nicole Pinto
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