Project orange elephant is a conflict specific holistic approach to mitigating human-elephant conflict in Sri Lanka

Human-wildlife conflicts are an increasing problem as human land use encroaches on wildlife habitats. Augmenting farmers’ crops with orange trees through Project Orange Elephant has proven to be a simple and effective method for mitigating human-elephant conflicts in Sri Lanka. Similar endeavours co...

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Autores principales: Dharmarathne, Chathuranga, Fernando, Chandima, Weerasinghe, Chinthaka, Corea, Ravi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6978409/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31974509
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s42003-020-0760-4
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Sumario:Human-wildlife conflicts are an increasing problem as human land use encroaches on wildlife habitats. Augmenting farmers’ crops with orange trees through Project Orange Elephant has proven to be a simple and effective method for mitigating human-elephant conflicts in Sri Lanka. Similar endeavours could be applied elsewhere in the world.

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