Research overview: corridors, connectivity, and conflict at movement bottlenecks

This overview synthesises how habitat corridors and connectivity shape big-cat conflict, focusing on the tension between maintaining predator movement and the conflict that arises where corridors pass through human-dominated land. It reviews evidence that dispersing tigers, jaguars, and pumas using corridors encounter livestock and people at pinch points, generating incidents, while connectivity remains essential for genetic and demographic viability. The literature discusses designing and managing corridors to minimise conflict, through buffer husbandry, fencing of critical points, and community engagement, while preserving function. The survey frames corridor conflict as a structural challenge of landscape conservation, requiring that connectivity planning explicitly incorporate conflict mitigation at the human-corridor interface.