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49 summaries matching “lion” in Human-Wildlife Conflict
Research overview: mobile bomas and rotational night enclosures for conflict reduction
OverviewThis overview examines portable predator-resistant enclosures, often canvas, mesh, or beaded vinyl walls on movable frames, deployed to protect livestock at night while distributing manure to regenera…
Research overview: payments for ecosystem services and predator conservation
OverviewThis overview reviews how payments-for-ecosystem-services (PES) frameworks have been adapted to compensate communities for hosting large carnivores, treating predator presence as a service worth rewar…
Research overview: predator-proof bomas and livestock enclosure fortification in East Africa
OverviewThis overview surveys evidence on reinforcing nighttime livestock enclosures (bomas, kraals) to prevent attacks by lions, leopards, hyenas, and cheetahs across East African rangelands. It covers the p…
Research overview: puma-sheep conflict on Patagonian rangelands
OverviewThis overview reviews human-puma conflict across the sheep-ranching landscapes of Argentine and Chilean Patagonia, where pumas prey on sheep and guanaco and ranchers have long persecuted them. It synt…
Research overview: religious and cultural values underpinning tolerance for big cats
OverviewThis overview examines how religious beliefs, sacred associations, and cultural traditions foster, or sometimes undermine, tolerance for big cats. It synthesises cases such as reverence for tigers and…
Research overview: retaliatory poisoning of big cats and the carbofuran problem
OverviewThis overview examines retaliatory poisoning, a leading and indiscriminate cause of large-carnivore mortality, focusing on the misuse of agricultural pesticides such as carbofuran (sold as Furadan) la…
Research overview: risk perception versus actual risk in big-cat conflict
OverviewThis overview examines the persistent gap between perceived and actual risk in human-big cat conflict, a theme cutting across lion, tiger, leopard, puma, and jaguar systems. It synthesises research sh…
Research overview: ritual and retaliatory lion killing in Maasai pastoralist culture
OverviewThis overview explores the cultural and conflict-driven dimensions of lion killing among Maasai and related pastoralists, including the traditional olamayio lion hunt as a rite of warrior status along…
Research overview: secondary poisoning, vultures, and ecosystem effects of retaliation
OverviewThis overview examines the wider ecological fallout of retaliatory poisoning aimed at big cats, especially the catastrophic secondary poisoning of vultures and other scavengers that feed on laced carc…
Research overview: snaring, bushmeat trade, and incidental big-cat mortality
OverviewThis overview reviews how wire snaring set for bushmeat indirectly drives big-cat conflict and mortality, a growing threat across Africa and Asia. It synthesises evidence that snares intended for ante…
Research overview: social identity and intergroup dimensions of carnivore conflict
OverviewThis overview synthesises research showing that much apparent human-carnivore conflict is in fact conflict between human groups, communities versus conservation authorities, locals versus outsiders, e…
Research overview: the Lion Guardians model of employment-based conflict mitigation
OverviewThis overview examines the Lion Guardians program in East Africa, which employs Maasai warriors to monitor lions, recover lost livestock, reinforce bomas, and warn herders, converting potential lion-k…
Research overview: the Mbirikani predator compensation fund and conditional payouts
OverviewThis overview examines a well-documented predator compensation fund on Mbirikani Group Ranch in southern Kenya, where Maasai livestock owners receive payments for verified kills by lions and other car…
Research overview: theory of change and evaluation in carnivore conflict programs
OverviewThis overview examines the growing emphasis on theory of change, explicit logic linking activities to intended outcomes, and rigorous evaluation in human-carnivore conflict interventions. It synthesis…
Research overview: tourism benefits and their effect on tolerance for big cats
OverviewThis overview synthesises research on whether wildlife-tourism revenue increases local tolerance for big cats by offsetting conflict costs. It reviews cases from jaguar tourism in the Pantanal, lion t…
Research overview: urban pumas, P-22, and coexistence in the Los Angeles area
OverviewThis overview examines research on pumas persisting in and around the urbanised landscapes of southern California, epitomised by P-22, the mountain lion that lived for years in Los Angeles's Griffith…
The Lions of Tsavo: exploring the legacy of Africa's notorious man-eaters
ReviewPatterson's book synthesises field biology, museum forensics, and historical records surrounding the 1898 Tsavo man-eating lions that halted railway construction over the Tsavo River. It examines comp…
Bruce D. Patterson · 2004
The science of man-eating among lions with a reconstruction of the Tsavo events
PaperKerbis Peterhans and Gnoske compiled historical, ecological, and anatomical evidence to reconstruct the natural history of man-eating in lions, focusing on the Tsavo case. They reviewed records of lio…
Julian C. Kerbis Peterhans, Thomas P. Gnoske · Journal of East African Natural History · 2001
Tooth breakage and dental disease as causes of carnivore-human conflicts
PaperThis study examined the long-standing hypothesis that dental injury drives big cats to hunt humans and livestock, using the Tsavo and Mfuwe man-eating lion specimens. The authors documented severe too…
Bruce D. Patterson, Ellis J. Neiburger, Samuel M. Kasiki · Journal of Mammalogy · 2003