ArticleCommunications biology2023
The unequal burden of human-wildlife conflict.
Article in Communications biology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Livestock Depredations and Prevention Strategies to Foster Human-Carnivore Coexistence in Western Mongolia's High Mountain Systems.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Socioeconomic determinants of livestock depredation by carnivores in the Omo Valley, Southern Ethiopia.BMC ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- An expanding human footprint drives escalating human-elephant conflict across a transboundary African landscape through 2085.PNAS nexus · 2026Article
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- A global review of Livestock Guardian Donkeys (LGDks) in the prevention of carnivore depredation.PeerJ · 2026Review
- Narrowing farmland biodiversity knowledge gaps with Digital Agriculture.NPJ sustainable agriculture · 2026Review
- Urban coyote spatiotemporal overlap with humans is associated with environmental characteristics not human sociodemographics.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Balancing act: navigating increasing human-wildlife conflict amidst megafauna recovery in the tropical lowlands of Nepal.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Elusive effects of legalized wolf hunting on human-wolf interactions.Science advances · 2025Article
- Assessing the implications of habitat transformations on human-large carnivore interactions outside protected areas.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- International disparities in conservation priorities are more complicated than Global North-Global South divisions.Biology letters · 2025Article
- Creating constellations of coexistence through connections between people in human-wildlife conflict areas.Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology · 2024Article
- Dynamic primary resources, not just wild prey availability, underpin lion depredation of livestock in a savanna ecosystem.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Are agricultural commodity production systems at risk from local biodiversity loss?Biology letters · 2024Review
- The global extent and severity of operational interactions between conflicting pinnipeds and fisheries.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Global expansion of human-wildlife overlap in the 21st century.Science advances · 2024Article
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9 authors at 7 institutions in 5 countries.
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Abstract
Human-wildlife conflict is one of the most pressing sustainable development challenges globally. This is particularly the case where ecologically and economically important wildlife impact the livelihoods of humans. Large carnivores are one such group and their co-occurrence with low-income rural communities often results in real or perceived livestock losses that place increased costs on already impoverished households. Here we show the disparities associated with the vulnerability to conflict arising from large carnivores on cattle (Bos taurus) globally. Across the distribution of 18 large carnivores, we find that the economic vulnerability to predation losses (as measured by impacts to annual per capita income) is between two and eight times higher for households in transitioning and developing economies when compared to developed ones. This potential burden is exacerbated further in developing economies because cattle keepers in these areas produce on average 31% less cattle meat per animal than in developed economies. In the lowest-income areas, our estimates suggest that the loss of a single cow or bull equates to nearly a year and a half of lost calories consumed by a child. Finally, our results show that 82% of carnivore range falls outside protected areas, and five threatened carnivores have over one third of their range located in the most economically sensitive conflict areas. This unequal burden of human-carnivore conflict sheds light on the importance of grappling with multiple and conflicting sustainable development goals: protecting life on land and eliminating poverty and hunger.
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