Effects of Human-Wildlife Conflict on Agricultural Productivity, Post Fast Track Land Reform Program in Zimbabwe: A Case of Gwayi Conservancy and Resettlement Areas Bordering Hwange National Park

The study assesses the impacts of Human-Wildlife conflicts in the surrounding villages in Old Oyo National Park (OONP), Nigeria. Two ranges out of the five ranges were used. Four villages were selected based on the distribution of primates and wildlife populations with each range producing two villages around Old Oyo National Park, were randomly selected for wildlife assessment. A total of 80 well-structured questionnaires were administered to the villagers with each getting 20 questionnaires respectively. Data collected were subjected to inferential and descriptive statistics. Result shows that among other socio demographic characteristics tested against the impact of Human –wildlife conflict in the park, educational level and religion show significant difference (p<0.05). the buffer zone around the park has been extensively encroached; this made most of the surrounding villages to the park fall within the average distance of 2.6km. about 79% of the villages make use of fire wood for their household cooking. Major animals that intrude farmlands in the study areas include monkey (24%), Grasscutter (11%), Cattle (19%), Gorilla (12%), Antelope (6%), Cane rat (5%) and Rabbit (3%). Some of the crops attacked by the wildlife animals include; tubers (24%), tubers and vegetable (7%), tubers and fruits (36%), tubers, vegetable and fruits (3%), vegetable (7%), fruits (3%). All the respondents (100%) rated the level of attack and damages to their crops as high.

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Indirect approach on human-wildlife conflict mitigation: potential local landscape based ecotourism in Margahayu, Labuhan Ratu VII

International Journal of Ecophysiology ◽

10.32734/ijoep.v1i2.1269 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 81-87

Author(s):

Elly Lestari Rustiati

Keyword(s):

Plant Diversity ◽

National Park ◽

Local Economy ◽

Local People ◽

Mitigation Potential ◽

Indirect Approach ◽

Wildlife Conflict ◽

Way Kambas National Park ◽

Human Wildlife Conflict ◽

Conflict Mitigation

Human-wildlife conflict in Way Kambas National Park is still going on with some social and economic lost. Indirect conflict mitigation through the building local landscape based ecotourism was studied in Margahayu, Labuhan Ratu VII, East Lampung. Its local people awareness play important role in supporting its local economy empowerment. Besides Rumah Konservasi, potential natural track showing plant diversity, entrance point for wild elephant to the settlement, orange plantation and natural swamp was chosen for further works. Name boards were assigned.

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Community perceptions of the human-wildlife conflict: a case study of Old Oyo National Park, Nigeria

Biodiversity ◽

10.1080/14888386.2019.1664323 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 20 (2-3) ◽

pp. 118-131

Author(s):

O. Digun-Aweto ◽

P. Van Der Merwe

Keyword(s):

National Park ◽

Community Perceptions ◽

Wildlife Conflict ◽

Human Wildlife Conflict

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Snow leopard stewardship in mitigating human–wildlife conflict in Hemis National Park, Ladakh, India

Human Dimensions of Wildlife ◽

10.1080/10871209.2019.1610815 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 24 (4) ◽

pp. 395-399 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Aishwarya Maheshwari ◽

Sambandam Sathyakumar

Keyword(s):

National Park ◽

Snow Leopard ◽

Wildlife Conflict ◽

Human Wildlife Conflict

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Evidence for increasing human‐wildlife conflict despite a financial compensation scheme on the edge of a Ugandan National Park

Conservation Science and Practice ◽

10.1111/csp2.309 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 2 (12) ◽

Author(s):

Alexander Braczkowski ◽

Julien Fattebert ◽

Ralph Schenk ◽

Christopher O'Bryan ◽

Duan Biggs ◽

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Keyword(s):

National Park ◽

Compensation Scheme ◽

Financial Compensation ◽

Wildlife Conflict ◽

Human Wildlife Conflict

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Settlers, Rhodesians, and Supremacists: White Authors and the Fast Track Land Reform Program in Post-2000 Zimbabwe

Journal of Black Studies ◽

10.1177/0021934717739400 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 49 (1) ◽

pp. 3-28 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Tavengwa Gwekwerere ◽

Davie E. Mutasa ◽

Kudakwashe Chitofiri

Keyword(s):

21St Century ◽

Land Reform ◽

Fast Track ◽

The Self ◽

Critical Scholarship ◽

Reform Program

Texts written by some white Zimbabweans in the post-2000 dispensation are largely shaped by their authors’ endeavor to contest the loss of lands they held prior to the onset of the Fast Track Land Reform Program (FTLRP). Written as memoirs, these texts are bound by the tendency to fall back on colonial settler values, Rhodesian identities, and Hegelian supremacist ideas in their narration of aspects of a conflict in which tropes such as truth, justice, patriotism, and belonging were not only evoked but also reframed. This article explores manifestations of this tendency in Eric Harrison’s Jambanja (2006) and Jim Barker’s Paradise Plundered: The Story of a Zimbabwean Farm (2007). The discussion unfolds against the backdrop of the realization that much of the literary-critical scholarship on land reform in post-2000 Zimbabwe focuses on texts written by black Zimbabweans and does not attend to the panoply of ways in which some white-authored texts yearn for colonial structures of power and privilege. This article evinces that the reincarnation of colonial settler values, Rhodesian identities, and Hegelian supremacist ideas undermines the discourse of white entitlement more than it promotes it. Values and identities of the colonial yesteryear on which this discourse is premised are not only anachronistic in the 21st century; they also obey the self-other binary at the heart of the patriotic history pedestal that was instrumental in the Zimbabwean regime’s post-2000 populist deployment of the land grievance to reconstruct itself as the only and indispensable champion of African interests in Zimbabwe.

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Survey of human-leopard (Panthera Pardus) conflict in Ayubia National Park, Pakistan

Journal of Bioresource Management ◽

10.35691/jbm.0202.0130 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

pp. 39-46

Author(s):

Nabeel Awan ◽

Atif Yaqub ◽

Muhammad Kamran

Keyword(s):

National Park ◽

Crop Damage ◽

Mitigation Measures ◽

Panthera Pardus ◽

Important Species ◽

Livestock Depredation ◽

Wildlife Conflict ◽

Community Based Conservation ◽

The Cost ◽

Human Wildlife Conflict

Wildlife populations are at a risk of extinction mainly because of human-wildlife conflict (HWC). The present study was designed to evaluate the ongoing HWC with special reference to Common Leopard (Panthera pardus) in Ayubia National park through field study as well as a literature-based approach. Questionnaire interview surveys were designed for wildlife officials working in the park and the locals who bear the cost for leopard conflict through livestock depredation and crop damage. The study showed that human-leopard conflict in the study area has been increasing. More than 60% of people considered livestock depredation as the major reason for their negative perception towards the common leopard. Among livestock, goats were more vulnerable which showed that leopards mostly preferred smaller prey. A number of reported human injuries and deaths on account of Human-Leopard conflict in the study area helped conclude that human-wildlife conflict is a significant issue. Mitigation measures may hence be recommended, such as livestock compensation schemes and community-based conservation approaches, etc. It is critical to avoid human-Leopard conflict not only to keep the public and their property safe but also to help conserve this important species of common leopard (Panthera pardus).

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