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This overview synthesises evidence that depletion of wild ungulate prey, through poaching, the bushmeat trade, and habitat loss, drives tigers toward livestock and, in extreme cases, people. It review…

This overview synthesises the role of specialised rapid-response teams in managing human-tiger conflict, from Village Tiger Response Teams in the Sundarbans to forest-department units across India and…

This 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…

This 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…

This overview examines how environmental stressors, rising salinity, sea-level rise, cyclones, and freshwater scarcity, may influence tiger behaviour and human-tiger conflict in the Sundarbans. It syn…

This overview examines the hypothesis that scavenging human corpses can initiate man-eating in big cats, drawing on historical episodes such as the Tsavo railway era and famine, epidemic, and conflict…

This overview reviews research on when big-cat conflict peaks, examining seasonal and diel patterns in depredation and attacks across systems. It synthesises findings that conflict often rises during…

This 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…

This 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…

This overview reviews how spatial zoning, separating core predator habitat, buffer zones, and human-use areas, and broader land-use planning can structure coexistence with big cats. It synthesises app…

This overview revisits the historical record of man-eating tigers in the Himalayan foothills, centred on the Champawat tigress reputed to have killed hundreds before being shot by Jim Corbett in the e…

This overview synthesises the full toolbox of measures used to mitigate big-cat conflict, organising them into prevention (husbandry, fortified enclosures, guard animals, deterrents, fencing, zoning),…

This overview reviews human-tiger and human-leopard conflict in Nepal's Terai Arc, where recovering tiger populations in and around Chitwan and Bardia overlap with dense rural settlement and buffer-zo…

This overview examines how India's tiger recovery, driven by protection and prey restoration, has increased conflict at reserve boundaries as growing populations disperse into human-dominated land. It…

This overview synthesises studies analysing who is attacked by tigers and leopards and under what circumstances, drawing on incident records across South Asia. It reviews patterns by age, sex, occupat…

This overview reviews the contested practice of voluntarily relocating villages out of tiger-reserve cores in India to reduce human-tiger conflict and create inviolate breeding habitat. It synthesises…

Barlow and colleagues applied a structured action-selection framework to prioritise interventions for reducing human-tiger conflict in the Bangladesh Sundarbans, where tigers kill people and straying…

Adam C. D. Barlow, et al. · Conservation Biology · 2010