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Lessons From 20 Years of Human–Elephant Conflict Mitigation in Africa
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The further refinement and re-assessment of human–elephant conflict (HEC) mitigation methods that has occurred since 2003 can be summarized into biological, physical, and governance categories. The most important distinction is between those measures applied against animals and used within the conflict zone, which are mostly used in the shorter term (except some fencing), and those measures working with people in the longer term, which rely heavily on official policy and administration often situated beyond the conflict zone. Effective HEC mitigation is difficult to understand and problematic to implement; it remains a complex package of apparently disparate measures that have to be used in combination and flexibly, at different scales, for both animals and people. Future HEC mitigation will be as much an art as a science, but since we now have a solid research foundation, we can proceed with some confidence to address the inherent sociopolitical difficulties.
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- Authors
- Hoare, R.
- Corresponding author
- Hoare, Richard
- Venue
- Human Dimensions of Wildlife
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2015-07-04
- Volume
- 20
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 289-295
- ISSN
- 1087-1209 (ISSN-L)
- 1533-158X
- OpenAlex
- W1599774932
- Cited by
- 128
- References
- 13
- Citations by year
- 2026: 14 · 2025: 14 · 2024: 20 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 17 · 2021: 14 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 10 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 6
- FWCI
- 5.44
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Human Dimensions of Wildlife (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Keywords
- human-elephant conflict, conflict mitigation, elephant conservation, wildlife fencing, conflict governance, wildlife policy, human-wildlife coexistence, Africa
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