Human-tiger conflict: a review and call for comprehensive plans

Goodrich reviewed the global state of human-tiger conflict, spanning attacks on people, livestock depredation, and the killing of tigers in retaliation or fear across the species' range. The review synthesised drivers, prey depletion, habitat loss, tiger injury or old age, and human encroachment, and surveyed the toolbox of responses from compensation and husbandry to problem-animal removal and response teams. Goodrich argued that piecemeal reactions fail and called for comprehensive, range-wide conflict-management plans integrating prevention, rapid response, and policy. The paper became a standard reference framing human-tiger conflict as a central obstacle to tiger recovery and outlining the components of effective national strategies.