Unraveling the complexity of human–tiger conflicts in the Leuser Ecosystem, Sumatra
Conserving large carnivores that live in close proximity to people depends on a variety of socio-economic, political and biological factors. These include local tolerance toward potentially dangerous animals, efficacy of human–carnivore conflict mitigation schemes, and identifying and then addressin...
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| author | Lubis, Muhammad Irfansyah Pusparini, W. Prabowo, S. A. Marthy, W. Tarmizi Andayani, N. Linkie, M. |
| author2 | Asian School of the Environment |
| author_facet | Asian School of the Environment Lubis, Muhammad Irfansyah Pusparini, W. Prabowo, S. A. Marthy, W. Tarmizi Andayani, N. Linkie, M. |
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| description | Conserving large carnivores that live in close proximity to people depends on a variety of socio-economic, political and biological factors. These include local tolerance toward potentially dangerous animals, efficacy of human–carnivore conflict mitigation schemes, and identifying and then addressing the underlying causes of conflict. The Leuser Ecosystem is the largest contiguous forest habitat for the critically endangered Sumatran tiger. Its extensive forest edge is abutted by farming communities and we predict that spatial variation in human–tiger conflict (HTC) would be a function of habitat conversion, livestock abundance, and poaching of tiger and its wild prey. To investigate which of these potential drivers of conflict, as well as other biophysical factors, best explain the observed patterns, we used resource selection function (RSF) technique to develop a predictive spatially explicit model of HTC. From 148 conflict incidences recorded from 2008 to 2018 across the Leuser Ecosystem, the areas that were closer to villages and with lower occurrence of wild prey were most susceptible to tiger attacks. From 18 districts monitored, 6 stood out for having disproportionately high levels of HTC. We recommend that these areas be prioritized with increased support from conflict mitigation teams to prevent further injuries to people, livestock or tigers; district governments address one underlying cause of HTC by supporting improved animal husbandry practices, such as tiger-proof livestock pen construction; and, an increase in ranger patrol effort to recover wild prey populations. This type of priority set- ting approach has wide application for better determining the required management response to reduce conflicts between people and large carnivores in both tropical and temporal landscapes. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1725642023-12-28T04:38:25Z Unraveling the complexity of human–tiger conflicts in the Leuser Ecosystem, Sumatra Lubis, Muhammad Irfansyah Pusparini, W. Prabowo, S. A. Marthy, W. Tarmizi Andayani, N. Linkie, M. Asian School of the Environment Science::Biological sciences::Ecology Science::Biological sciences::Zoology::Animal behavior Panthera Human–Tiger Conflict Large Carnivore Livestock Poaching Research-Implementation Gap Retaliatory Killing Conserving large carnivores that live in close proximity to people depends on a variety of socio-economic, political and biological factors. These include local tolerance toward potentially dangerous animals, efficacy of human–carnivore conflict mitigation schemes, and identifying and then addressing the underlying causes of conflict. The Leuser Ecosystem is the largest contiguous forest habitat for the critically endangered Sumatran tiger. Its extensive forest edge is abutted by farming communities and we predict that spatial variation in human–tiger conflict (HTC) would be a function of habitat conversion, livestock abundance, and poaching of tiger and its wild prey. To investigate which of these potential drivers of conflict, as well as other biophysical factors, best explain the observed patterns, we used resource selection function (RSF) technique to develop a predictive spatially explicit model of HTC. From 148 conflict incidences recorded from 2008 to 2018 across the Leuser Ecosystem, the areas that were closer to villages and with lower occurrence of wild prey were most susceptible to tiger attacks. From 18 districts monitored, 6 stood out for having disproportionately high levels of HTC. We recommend that these areas be prioritized with increased support from conflict mitigation teams to prevent further injuries to people, livestock or tigers; district governments address one underlying cause of HTC by supporting improved animal husbandry practices, such as tiger-proof livestock pen construction; and, an increase in ranger patrol effort to recover wild prey populations. This type of priority set- ting approach has wide application for better determining the required management response to reduce conflicts between people and large carnivores in both tropical and temporal landscapes. We thank the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Liz Claiborne and Art Ortenberg Foundation, Pan- thera, Fondation Segr e, UNDP/GEF, IUCN/KfW, Disney Conservation Fund and USAID LESTARI for supporting this work 2023-12-28T04:36:43Z 2023-12-28T04:36:43Z 2020 Journal Article Lubis, M. I., Pusparini, W., Prabowo, S. A., Marthy, W., Tarmizi, Andayani, N. & Linkie, M. (2020). Unraveling the complexity of human–tiger conflicts in the Leuser Ecosystem, Sumatra. Animal Conservation, 23(6), 741-749. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/acv.12591 1367-9430 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/172564 10.1111/acv.12591 6 23 741 749 en Animal Conservation © 2020 The Zoological Society of London. All rights reserved. |
| spellingShingle | Science::Biological sciences::Ecology Science::Biological sciences::Zoology::Animal behavior Panthera Human–Tiger Conflict Large Carnivore Livestock Poaching Research-Implementation Gap Retaliatory Killing Lubis, Muhammad Irfansyah Pusparini, W. Prabowo, S. A. Marthy, W. Tarmizi Andayani, N. Linkie, M. Unraveling the complexity of human–tiger conflicts in the Leuser Ecosystem, Sumatra |
| title | Unraveling the complexity of human–tiger conflicts in the Leuser Ecosystem, Sumatra |
| title_full | Unraveling the complexity of human–tiger conflicts in the Leuser Ecosystem, Sumatra |
| title_fullStr | Unraveling the complexity of human–tiger conflicts in the Leuser Ecosystem, Sumatra |
| title_full_unstemmed | Unraveling the complexity of human–tiger conflicts in the Leuser Ecosystem, Sumatra |
| title_short | Unraveling the complexity of human–tiger conflicts in the Leuser Ecosystem, Sumatra |
| title_sort | unraveling the complexity of human tiger conflicts in the leuser ecosystem sumatra |
| topic | Science::Biological sciences::Ecology Science::Biological sciences::Zoology::Animal behavior Panthera Human–Tiger Conflict Large Carnivore Livestock Poaching Research-Implementation Gap Retaliatory Killing |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/172564 |
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