People & Wildlife
Creating conservation solutions

Since 2004 P&W provides a forum for human-wildlife conflict issues, promoting non-lethal, innovative solutions, information exchange, and a network to bring together experts, managers, institutions and the communities affected by conflict. We invite you to use the P&W e-list, P&W Notice Board and P&W Database to exchange information and lessons, and to contact and interact with colleagues.

We hope you will find P&W useful.

Jorgelina Marino & Claudio Sillero

A partnership between the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit and Born Free Foundation, seeking to resolve conflicts between the needs of people and those of wildlife, and develop long-term, humane solutions. info@peopleandwildlife.org.uk

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4/02/10 New training by the Human-Wildlife Conflict Collaboration website

New Best Practice Guidelines for the prevention and mitigation of conflict between humans and great apes.

K. Hockings and T. Humle (2009). Gland, Switzerland: IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group. 40 pp. (pdf 900KB)

These guidelines are meant to give researchers and wildlife managers a framework in which to understand human - great ape conflict, as well as providing a range of options and potential countermeasures to employ.

2nd Edition Guia de Convivência Gente e Onças (Guidelines for the coexistence of people and jaguars).

Silvio Marchini & Ricardo Luciano (2009), People and Jaguars Coexistence Project; Cristalino Ecological Foundation and Wildlife Conservation Research Unit.

Illustrated guide to inform landowners and the public at large about jaguar ecology, depredation problems and conservation issues. It also intends to foster a naturalistic appreciation of jaguars by providing practical information on how to find and record their signs, and observe them in captivity and in the wild. Prefaced by Peter Crawshaw and revised by Rafael Hoogesteijn. (in Portuguese 5.8MB ). Translated and revised by Rafael Hoogesteijn. Prefaced by Alan Rabinowitz and Howard Quigley. (in Spanish 5.8MB ).

Wildlife and Society: The Science of Human Dimensions
Manfredo, M., J. Vaske, P. Brown, D.Decker and E. (2008)
368 pp., Island Press
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Past, present, and future of human dimensions of fish and wildlife research and application. With perspectives from a wide variety of academic disciplines and practitioners from the United States, Europe, Africa, and Latin America.

Assessing the potential impact of wind turbines on the endangered Galapagos Petrel Pterodroma phaeopygia at San Crist obal Island, Galapagos Cruz-Delgado et al (2010) Biodiversity and Conservation [abstract] Collision risk of Galapagos Petrels with a wind energy development recently constructed

Changes in attitudes toward wolves in Croatia Majic & Bath (2010) Biological Conservation [abstract] Younger cohort groups may have been influenced more by the legal protection campaign.

Modelling the effectiveness of contraception for controlling introduced populations of elephant in South Africa. Mackey et al (2009) African Journal of Ecology .[abstract]

Use of wild and cultivated foods by chimpanzees at Bossou, Republic of Guinea: feeding dynamics in a human-influenced environmen Hockings et al. (2009) American Journal of Primatology [abstract] During specific months crops account for up to one quarter of chimpanzee feeding time. Crop-raiding levels are higher throughout periods of wild fruit scarcity.

Does whale watching in Southern New England impact humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) calf production or calf survival? Weinrich & Corbelli (2009) Biological Conservation [abstract] Short-term disturbance may not necessarily be indicative of more meaningful detrimental effects on either individuals or populations

Crop raiding and management of Funambulus palmarum in cardamom (Elettaria cardamomum) plantations of Western Ghats of Karnataka, south India Chakravarthy et al (2008) Current Science [abstract] Integrated efforts are needed to protect crops like cardamom while sustaining ecologically important rodents like squirrels.

Cooperation and individuality among man-eating lions. Yeakel et al (2009) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences [abstract] Prey scarcity drives individual dietary specialization, even within a cooperative framework, and intensity of human predation is also associated with severe craniodental infirmities.

"A partnership between the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU) and Born Free Foundation, seeking to resolve conflicts between the needs of people and those of wildlife, and develop long-term, humane solutions."

Contact us: info@peopleandwildlife.org.uk