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
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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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description 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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spelling pubmed-69784092020-01-28 Project orange elephant is a conflict specific holistic approach to mitigating human-elephant conflict in Sri Lanka Dharmarathne, Chathuranga Fernando, Chandima Weerasinghe, Chinthaka Corea, Ravi Commun Biol Comment 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. Nature Publishing Group UK 2020-01-23 /pmc/articles/PMC6978409/ /pubmed/31974509 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s42003-020-0760-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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