Abstract
Conservation of wild animals to a great extent depends on the attitude of local people towards them, which is directly related to the intensity of human-wildlife conflict. Human-wildlife conflict often undermines the objectives of wildlife conservation and sustainable use initiatives. Incidences of carnivores’ attacks on humans and livestock were inspected to collect data on human-tiger conflict. The tiger killed 1,418 livestock while injuring 506 livestock over a period of five years. The distribution of livestock attacked by tigers differed significantly among the different livestock classes (χ2 = 2484.79, df = 7, P<0.001). Tigers attacked more cows (37.7%), followed by buffaloes (35%), whereas they attacked fewer bullocks (11.4%) or buffalo calves (6.7%). The distribution of tiger attacks on livestock differed significantly in different months (χ2 = 153.73, df = 11, P<0.001). The majority (57%) of cattle attacks were recorded during the months of August (n= 335), September (n= 237), October (n= 236), and July (n= 234). Tiger-human conflict in the Corbett landscape is a grave threat to tigers, and to ensure the long-term conservation of tigers in the area, it is imperative to initiate a programme aiming to mitigate human-tiger conflict.
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