Abstract
Human Wildlife conflict is an emerged problem in wildlife today. Our study deals with assessing the tolerance level of human towards wildlife by taking some parts of Coimbatore like Karamdai,Thondamuthur and Periyanaickenpalayam as study area. These are areas where human conflict with wildlife and wildlife conflict with human are often seen. Conflict with animals like wild boar, peacock,elephant and deer are seen here. The aim of our study is to analyze the original tolerance level of people towards human wildlife conflicts, to compare the tolerance level of people towards different animals, to compare the tolerance level of on comparing with different groups on basis of age, gender, occupation,forest area coverage and losses faced. Our study was conducted on December 2018 and about 48 peoples are investigated in our study area. The voices of people were recorded in phone and tolerancepercentages were given. The mean tolerance level of the people was found to be 58.75%. About 23% of people showed 90% level of tolerance. The comparative tolerance levels between different groups of people were discussed. The reasons behind the factors which determine the tolerance level of groups were also discussed.
Highlights
Human wildlife conflict is an emerged problem in wildlife
Human wildlife conflict (HWC) is defined as occurring whenever an action by humans or wildlife has an adverse effect on the other (1). since conflicts cannot occur between people and animals as animals cannot consciously engage in such conflicts (2) suggestions have been made to define HWC more broadly and consisting of two components
Impacts that deal with direct interactions between humans and wildlife; and Conflicts that centre on human interactions between those seeking to conserve species and those with other goals (3).Biodiversity conflictsand HWC are predicted to increase globally
Summary
Human wildlife conflict is an emerged problem in wildlife. Human wildlife conflict (HWC) is defined as occurring whenever an action by humans or wildlife has an adverse effect on the other (1). since conflicts cannot occur between people and animals as animals cannot consciously engage in such conflicts (2) suggestions have been made to define HWC more broadly and consisting of two components. Impacts that deal with direct interactions between humans and wildlife; and Conflicts that centre on human interactions between those seeking to conserve species and those with other goals (i.e. biodiversity conflicts) (3).Biodiversity conflictsand HWC are predicted to increase globally. It is to be understood that every organism in the world has a specific duty and occupies its own place.Bio diversity conflicts and human wildlife conflict are predicted to increase globally (4). They pose a challenge for conservation managers in light of the rapid of biodiversity loss and the political consequences of failing to achieve millennium development goals (5)
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