People and Wildlife: Policies for reducing human–wildlife conflict: a Kenya case study

摘要: INTRODUCTION The human–wildlife conflict is a face-off between people and wildlife over space or resources. Typically, involves that consumes pasture crops, attacks domestic stock even humans – who kill in reprisal (Woodroffe et al ., Chapter 1, Thirgood 2). For humans, the shrinking as dwindling proportion of encounter wildlife. wildlife, reverse true. With third half all land transformed used by (Vitousek . 1997), natural habitats are shrinking. A growing competes with survives only through conservation measures. term ‘wildlife’ originally referred to large conspicuous animals. Over last century, however, has come include wider variety species our sensibilities have broadened from parochial universal human rights, recently intrinsic value life whole (Nash 1989). scope grown lockstep, its origins sport hunting more forms (Shabecoff 1993). Today most nations revising their policies legislation reflect global aims Convention on Biological Diversity (Heywood 1995; Hempel 1996; 2005). Seen this light, should apply any competing interests sort. Expanding human–biodiversity would not be problematic if we valued same.