Wild Seve: A Novel Conservation Intervention to Monitor and Address Human-Wildlife Conflict
Human-wildlife interactions resulting in conflict remains a global conservation challenge, requiring innovative solutions to ensure the persistence of wildlife amidst people. Wild Seve was established in July 2015 as a conservation intervention program to assist people affected by conflict to file a...
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| description | Human-wildlife interactions resulting in conflict remains a global conservation challenge, requiring innovative solutions to ensure the persistence of wildlife amidst people. Wild Seve was established in July 2015 as a conservation intervention program to assist people affected by conflict to file and monitor claims and receive ex-gratia payments from the Indian government. In 48 months of operation, Wild Seve filed and tracked 13,808 claims on behalf of those affected from 19 forest ranges around the Bandipur and Nagarahole National Parks in Karnataka, India. This included 10,082 incidents of crop loss, 1,176 property damage incidents, and 1,720 incidents where crop and property loss occurred together. Wild Seve also filed claims for 782 livestock predation incidents, and assisted in 45 human injury incidents and three human fatalities. Elephant related losses comprised 93.9%, and big cat losses comprised 5.5% of reported cases. Wild Seve provides an immediate response to human-wildlife conflict incidents and improves access to ex-gratia payment schemes. Wild Seve is a low cost intervention that uses open-source technology and leverages existing policies to facilitate ex-gratia payments. The Wild Seve model of monitoring and addressing human-wildlife conflict is adaptable and scalable to high conflict regions globally, to the benefit of people and wildlife. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-036e8958d48a402580ce17356731f2422022-12-22T01:37:00ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution2296-701X2020-07-01810.3389/fevo.2020.00198530144Wild Seve: A Novel Conservation Intervention to Monitor and Address Human-Wildlife ConflictKrithi K. Karanth0Krithi K. Karanth1Anubhav Vanamamalai2Centre for Wildlife Studies, Bengaluru, IndiaNicholas School of Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC, United StatesCentre for Wildlife Studies, Bengaluru, IndiaHuman-wildlife interactions resulting in conflict remains a global conservation challenge, requiring innovative solutions to ensure the persistence of wildlife amidst people. Wild Seve was established in July 2015 as a conservation intervention program to assist people affected by conflict to file and monitor claims and receive ex-gratia payments from the Indian government. In 48 months of operation, Wild Seve filed and tracked 13,808 claims on behalf of those affected from 19 forest ranges around the Bandipur and Nagarahole National Parks in Karnataka, India. This included 10,082 incidents of crop loss, 1,176 property damage incidents, and 1,720 incidents where crop and property loss occurred together. Wild Seve also filed claims for 782 livestock predation incidents, and assisted in 45 human injury incidents and three human fatalities. Elephant related losses comprised 93.9%, and big cat losses comprised 5.5% of reported cases. Wild Seve provides an immediate response to human-wildlife conflict incidents and improves access to ex-gratia payment schemes. Wild Seve is a low cost intervention that uses open-source technology and leverages existing policies to facilitate ex-gratia payments. The Wild Seve model of monitoring and addressing human-wildlife conflict is adaptable and scalable to high conflict regions globally, to the benefit of people and wildlife.https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fevo.2020.00198/fullcompensationconservationhuman-wildlife conflicthuman-wildlife interactionsIndiaintervention |
| spellingShingle | Krithi K. Karanth Krithi K. Karanth Anubhav Vanamamalai Wild Seve: A Novel Conservation Intervention to Monitor and Address Human-Wildlife Conflict Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution compensation conservation human-wildlife conflict human-wildlife interactions India intervention |
| title | Wild Seve: A Novel Conservation Intervention to Monitor and Address Human-Wildlife Conflict |
| title_full | Wild Seve: A Novel Conservation Intervention to Monitor and Address Human-Wildlife Conflict |
| title_fullStr | Wild Seve: A Novel Conservation Intervention to Monitor and Address Human-Wildlife Conflict |
| title_full_unstemmed | Wild Seve: A Novel Conservation Intervention to Monitor and Address Human-Wildlife Conflict |
| title_short | Wild Seve: A Novel Conservation Intervention to Monitor and Address Human-Wildlife Conflict |
| title_sort | wild seve a novel conservation intervention to monitor and address human wildlife conflict |
| topic | compensation conservation human-wildlife conflict human-wildlife interactions India intervention |
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