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The research will help conservation scientists in better understanding reasons for the occurrence of these conflicts, and help mitigate them
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New Delhi: Scientists claim to have found a reliable way of predicting when and where human-wildlife conflicts are likely to take place, helping pre-emptively mitigating the impact of such conflicts.
Research also revealed mechanisms that influence patterns in crop raids by elephants in their study area. The study is significant as around 400 people and 100 elephants are killed in such conflicts every year in India.
The research will help conservation scientists in better understanding reasons for the occurrence of these conflicts. It will help generate “predictive maps" of human–wildlife conflicts.
The research was led by a scientists of the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), a non-governmental organisation, and was the result of seven-year-long monitoring of human–elephant conflicts in the Garo Hills of northeast India and study of reported conflicts.
“Mitigating human–wildlife conflict is of crucial concern for both wildlife conservation and human well-being and a reliable understanding of why such conflicts occur holds the key for effective mitigation," said the lead researcher Varun Goswami, who heads the Elephant Program of WCS.
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