People and Wildlife: The impact of human–wildlife conflict on human lives and livelihoods

摘要: INTRODUCTION Human populations interact with wildlife in numerous ways. Our species has directly exploited wild animals for food and furs millennia more recently sporting or cultural reasons. Humans have greatly modified habitats landscapes through agriculture other extractive industries far-reaching typically negative impacts on populations. We also translocated around the globe, either deliberately accidentally, major consequences native fauna. From human perspective, our interactions are often positive – we gain material benefit from harvesting animal products. In situations, however, negative. Wild may eat livestock damage crops, they compete us as hunters prey populations, even injure kill us. previous chapter, outlined that come into conflict people, focussing global local extirpations range contractions suffered by a variety of predators crop-raiders. Here this second scene-setting summarize threatened people. Focussing again crop-raiders assess costs to stakeholders living wildlife. focus direct such loss life, livestock, resources crops try calculate these financial terms.