Welcome to the website of the People & Wildlife Initiative.
Our goal is to provide a communication forum for human-wildlife conflict issues and innovative solutions.

Please submit any relevant information, exchange lessons, and contact people through the P&W e-list and Notice Board.

We hope you will find People & Wildlife useful.

Claudio Sillero
Jorgelina Marino - Webmaster

New in the website:

NEW ►Topics Felid-human conflicts

►From the Notice Board - read full messages

► New resources - many more useful links

Human Dimensions of Wildlife
Published six times annually by Taylor & Francis. An open forum for exchange theories, concepts, methods, findings, and philosophies relevant to human dimensions of fisheries and wildlife management. more about this journal

WolfPrint magazine
Published quarterly by the UK Wolf Conservation Trust with information about wolves throughout the world. Download a free copy of Issue 31 (pdf 2.5MB), which includes 'Wolf depradation and the human conflict in the Polish Carpathians'. Available by direct subscription anywhere in the world. Now available to complimentary subscribers electronically.

►Recent publications - more bibliography

Optimising investments from elephant tourist revenues in the Maputo Elephant Reserve, Mozambique de Boer et al (In press) Journal for Nature Conservation A costs-benefit analysis based on elephant population size, fence costs, crop raid costs, elephant poaching, and benefits derived from tourism [abstract]

Vulture restaurants and their role in reducing diclofenac exposure in Asian vultures. Gilbert et al (2007). Bird Conservation International 17(1):63-77. A valuable interim measure in slowing vulture population decline until diclofenac can be withdrawn from veterinary use [abstract]

► Conflict Resolution Manuals
over 30 ready-to-download manuals

Manual on the problem of depredation caused by jaguars and pumas on cattle ranches. Rafael Hoogesteijn (2007)
Wildlife Conservation Society & IUCN Cat Specialist Group
(pdf ~150KB english, spanish, portuguese)

► Recent books more books

Predators and Farmers
Hodkinson et al . (editors) (2007) Published by the Endangered Wildlife Trust (digital) (pdf 3MB)

►Pick of the headlines -more news

House builders urged to cater for wildlife (UK) more

Don't make national parks ghettos for our elephants (Sri Lanka) more

Milan airport shut by hare plague ( Italy) more

From pooh to paper ( Sri Lanka - USA) more
Mr Ellie Pooh website

"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."