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Athreya and colleagues analysed leopard scats from a farmland landscape in western Maharashtra to quantify diet where leopards live amid dense human settlement. They found domestic animals, especially…

Vidya Athreya, Morten Odden, John D. C. Linnell, Jagdish Krishnaswamy, K. Ullas Karanth · Oryx · 2016

Jackson and Wangchuk described a community-driven model for reducing snow leopard depredation and building tolerance, drawing on work in Ladakh and Nepal. They detailed participatory methods in which…

Rodney Jackson, Rinchen Wangchuk · Human Dimensions of Wildlife · 2004

Athreya and colleagues camera-trapped a densely populated agricultural landscape in Maharashtra with no protected forest and found surprisingly high densities of leopards and striped hyenas living amo…

Vidya Athreya, Morten Odden, John D. C. Linnell, Jagdish Krishnaswamy, Ullas Karanth · PLOS ONE · 2013

Zimmermann, Walpole, and Leader-Williams surveyed cattle ranchers across the Brazilian Pantanal to understand attitudes toward jaguars and pumas amid livestock depredation. They found that ranchers fr…

Alexandra Zimmermann, Matthew J. Walpole, Nigel Leader-Williams · Oryx · 2005

Nyhus and Tilson analysed records of human-tiger conflict around Sumatran protected areas, characterising attacks on people and livestock and the killing of tigers. They linked conflict to habitat con…

Philip J. Nyhus, Ronald Tilson · Oryx · 2004

Dickman argued that human-wildlife conflict is often misdiagnosed as a simple problem of animal damage when its roots and intensity are deeply social, shaped by attitudes, cultural values, historical…

Amy J. Dickman · Animal Conservation · 2010

Yeakel and colleagues applied stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis to bone collagen and hair keratin from the two 1898 Tsavo man-eating lions held at the Field Museum. By comparing isotopic sig…

Justin D. Yeakel, Bruce D. Patterson, et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2009

Beier compiled and analysed records of cougar (puma) attacks on people across the United States and Canada through the twentieth century, providing the first systematic quantification of a rare but fe…

Paul Beier · Wildlife Society Bulletin · 1991

Lesilau and colleagues conducted a field experiment around Nairobi National Park, Kenya, testing whether installing flashing LED lights on bomas reduced lion attacks on livestock. Comparing depredatio…

Francis Lesilau, et al. · PLOS ONE · 2018

Hazzah and colleagues evaluated whether a Maasai-warrior employment scheme (Lion Guardians) and a livestock compensation program reduced lion killing in southern Kenya. Using long-term lion-mortality…

Leela Hazzah, Stephanie Dolrenry, et al. · Conservation Biology · 2014

Treves and Karanth reviewed human-carnivore conflict and management approaches across continents, synthesising how societies have responded to large predators from persecution to protection. They exam…

Adrian Treves, K. Ullas Karanth · Conservation Biology · 2003

Inskip and Zimmermann produced a comprehensive global review of conflict between people and wild cats, synthesising the geography, drivers, and severity of conflict across all felid species. They iden…

Chloe Inskip, Alexandra Zimmermann · Oryx · 2009

Inskip and colleagues used household surveys across villages bordering the Bangladesh Sundarbans to document the full burden of human-tiger conflict, encompassing fatal and nonfatal attacks on people,…

Chloe Inskip, et al. · Human Ecology · 2013

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 sy…

John M. Goodrich · Integrative Zoology · 2010

Braczkowski and colleagues modelled the ecological and public-health role of leopards inhabiting Sanjay Gandhi National Park within Mumbai, where the cats prey heavily on free-ranging dogs in surround…

Alexander R. Braczkowski, et al. · Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment · 2018

Woodroffe and Frank examined how retaliatory and preemptive killing of lions on Kenyan rangelands affects populations at local and regional scales. Combining mortality records with spatial analysis ar…

Rosie Woodroffe, Laurence G. Frank · Animal Conservation · 2005

Ogada and colleagues conducted a controlled comparison of husbandry practices on Laikipia ranches in Kenya to identify which measures reduce predation by lions, leopards, hyenas, and cheetahs. By corr…

Maurice O. Ogada, Rosie Woodroffe, Nicholas O. Oguge, Laurence G. Frank · Conservation Biology · 2003

Packer and colleagues analysed more than 800 lion attacks on people across rural Tanzania between 1990 and 2004, one of the largest quantitative datasets on big-cat predation on humans. They found att…

Craig Packer, Dennis Ikanda, Bernard Kissui, Hadas Kushnir · Nature · 2005

Hazzah, Borgerhoff Mulder, and Frank investigated the social and economic drivers of lion killing among Maasai communities near Amboseli, Kenya, and assessed an incentive-based compensation scheme. Th…

Leela Hazzah, Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, Laurence Frank · Biological Conservation · 2009

Kissui quantified livestock losses to lions, leopards, and spotted hyenas across Maasai households in northern Tanzania and linked those losses to retaliatory killing of carnivores. Using household su…

Bernard M. Kissui · Animal Conservation · 2008

Bagchi and Mishra quantified snow leopard predation on livestock in the Spiti region of the Indian trans-Himalaya, combining diet analysis with herder-reported losses to assess the predator's reliance…

Sumanta Bagchi, Charudutt Mishra · Journal of Zoology · 2006

Suryawanshi and colleagues quantified livestock depredation by snow leopards and wolves across the Indian trans-Himalaya and compared actual losses with herders' perceptions of those losses. They foun…

Kulbhushansingh R. Suryawanshi, et al. · Journal of Applied Ecology · 2013

Marker, Dickman, and Macdonald evaluated the Cheetah Conservation Fund's program placing Anatolian shepherd and Kangal guarding dogs with Namibian farmers to reduce cheetah and other predator losses.…

Laurie L. Marker, Amy J. Dickman, David W. Macdonald · Rangeland Ecology & Management · 2005

This overview reviews human-tiger conflict involving Amur (Siberian) tigers in the Russian Far East and northeast China, a low-density, cold-forest population. It synthesises studies of livestock and…

This overview surveys human-lion coexistence in India's Gir landscape, the last refuge of the Asiatic lion, where pastoralist Maldhari communities graze livestock within and around the protected fores…

This overview reviews the development of geographic information system (GIS) databases and surveillance systems that systematically record big-cat conflict incidents for analysis and management. It sy…

This overview examines community ecotourism initiatives, notably the Himalayan Homestays program in Ladakh, designed to convert snow leopards from a liability into an economic asset for herding househ…

This overview synthesises the international guidance developed under the IUCN's human-wildlife conflict and coexistence efforts, which distil principles and good practice for managing conflict involvi…

This overview reviews the application of adaptive management, structured learning through iterative intervention, monitoring, and adjustment, to human-big cat conflict. It synthesises arguments that b…

This overview synthesises how buffer-zone management and community forestry mediate human-tiger and human-leopard conflict around protected areas in Nepal and India. It reviews programs that share par…