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This overview synthesises studies of snow leopard predation on livestock across the mountains of Central and South Asia, from Ladakh and Spiti to the Pamirs and Mongolia. It reviews patterns of loss,…

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 synthesises the contested evidence on whether sport hunting of pumas reduces or paradoxically increases conflict with people and livestock. It reviews studies suggesting that heavy hunti…

This overview synthesises the long-running program, pioneered by the Cheetah Conservation Fund in Namibia, that places Anatolian shepherd and Kangal guarding dogs with farmers to reduce cheetah and le…

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 reviews the well-documented spike in leopard attacks on people in the Junnar region of Maharashtra in the early 2000s, which followed intensive capture-and-translocation of leopards into…

This 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…

This 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…

This overview reviews frameworks that array human-carnivore relationships along a continuum from acute conflict through coexistence to active stewardship, and that match interventions to a situation's…

This overview synthesises the contested evidence on translocating conflict big cats, capturing and releasing them elsewhere, as a management response. It reviews studies, prominently from Indian leopa…

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 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…

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 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…

This 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…

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…

This overview reviews husbandry interventions promoted to reduce jaguar and puma depredation on cattle in the Venezuelan llanos and elsewhere, including the use of water buffalo, which form defensive…

This overview examines the downsides and trade-offs of deploying livestock-guarding dogs against big cats, balancing their depredation-reducing benefits. It synthesises research on dog welfare, exposu…

This overview synthesises social-psychological research on how wildlife value orientations, broad belief systems ranging from domination to mutualism, shape attitudes toward large carnivores and toler…

Patterson'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

Mishra and colleagues outlined and evaluated community-based incentive programs designed to offset the costs herders bear from snow leopard depredation in the Himalaya. They described mechanisms inclu…

Charudutt Mishra, et al. · Conservation Biology · 2003

Kerbis 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

Treves and Bruskotter examined the psychology and policy of human tolerance for large predators, arguing that tolerance, the willingness to coexist with carnivores, is the decisive factor in their con…

Adrian Treves, Jeremy T. Bruskotter · Science · 2014

This 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

Athreya and colleagues analysed the outcomes of capturing leopards from conflict situations and releasing them elsewhere in Maharashtra, a common management response in India. Using records of leopard…

Vidya Athreya, Morten Odden, John D. C. Linnell, K. Ullas Karanth · Conservation Biology · 2011

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

Riley and Decker introduced and applied the concept of wildlife stakeholder acceptance capacity (WSAC) to cougars in Montana, measuring the maximum cougar population level that residents would tolerat…

Shawn J. Riley, Daniel J. Decker · Wildlife Society Bulletin · 2000