Title
Chapter Title: Species and sites matter: Understanding human–wildlife interactions from 5,000 surveys in India
Book Title: Conservation and Development in India: Reimagining Wilderness
Author(s)
Akshay, Surendra; Karanth, Krithi K.
Published
2018
Abstract
Understanding and managing human–wildlife interactions remains a global conservation priority. Most often, the interactions that emerge from the literature focus on negative interactions such as crop damage, livestock loss, property damage, human injury and death (Treves and Karanth 2003; Graham et al. 2005; Madden 2004; Lagendijk and Gusset 2008; Dickman 2010; Kansky and Knight 2014). Little effort is exerted towards documenting neutral or positive interactions between people and wildlife (Peterson et al. 2010). Despite a vast body of literature devoted to understanding human–wildlife interactions – particularly conflict – many fundamental questions remain unanswered. At the core of these interactions is examining how different species influence people’s perceptions, attitudes, reporting of conflict and retaliation against species and whether these differences can enable improvements in policy, compensation and mitigation efforts (Bagchi and Mishra 2006; Barlow et al. 2010; Dickman 2010; Karanth and Kudalkar 2017).
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