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Scouts should manage human-wildlife conflicts. Author supplied

August 29, 2017

Community participation is needed for more effective anti-poaching

Francis Massé, York University, Canada

Military style anti-poaching is often criticised because it alienates communities living around protected areas. But these initiatives give them an incentive to protect the species.

The Southern Tanzania Elephant Program used camera traps to capture elephant visits to farmland. STEP/Author supplied

August 1, 2017

What camera traps tell us about elephants eating crops

Josephine B. Smit, University of Stirling

Elephants feeding on crops poses a challenge to their coexistence with humans. Farmers must introduce strategies to reduce losses and avoid lethal action against the endangered species.

Markets and militarisation as responses to wildlife threats are dangerous because they often fail. Shutterstock

September 22, 2016

Why military and market responses are no way to save species from extinction

Libby Lunstrum, York University, Canada and Patrick Bond, University of the Witwatersrand

Military responses to combat poaching are a problem. They marginalise communities where poachers come from and can have longer term implications.

The ‘Musketeers’ pictured here were stars of a recent National Geographic documentary. Sian Sullivan

August 23, 2016

Three of Namibia’s most famous lion family were poisoned – why?

Sian Sullivan, Bath Spa University

Ongoing drought means increased encounters between people and lions in north-west Namibia.

South Sudan’s elephant population plummeted from 80,000 in the late 1960s to less than 5,000 now. Shutterstock

July 27, 2016

South Sudan’s humanitarian crisis: wildlife is also in the firing line

Keith Somerville, University of Kent

South Sudan is a country where conflict is rife. This has had a knock-on effect on the country's rich and varied fauna, and put conservation programmes in severe crisis.

A makeshift shrine to Harambe, the zoo gorilla whose death has raised some uncomfortable moral questions. William Philpott/Reuters

June 8, 2016

How do we weigh the moral value of human lives against animal ones?

Daniel Crimston, The University of Queensland; Brock Bastian, University of Melbourne; Matthew Hornsey, and Paul Bain, Queensland University of Technology

We tend instinctively to value human lives over non-human ones. But is there a point where the scales might tip the other way?

A victim of hungry lions. And post-apartheid cultural tensions. Niki Rust

April 14, 2016

How lions, leopards and livestock are affected by racism on Namibia’s farms

Niki Rust, University of Kent

Lions and leopards seem to prefer cattle belonging to farmers who treat their workers badly. Don't blame the animals – this is a human problem.

Human and wildlife conflict threatens to become a problem in the Maasai Mara landscape. Shutterstock

December 3, 2015

What’s being done in Kenya’s Maasai Mara to protect cheetahs

Femke Broekhuis, University of Oxford

Cheetahs face a number of threats in the Maasai Mara landscape but there are efforts underway to help them overcome these.

Top contributors

Brock Bastian
ARC Future Fellow, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne
Douglas MacMillan
Professor of Conservation and Applied Resource Economics, University of Kent
Niki Rust
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Kent
Paul Bain
Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Queensland University of Technology
Patrick Bond
Professor of Political Economy, University of the Witwatersrand
Sian Sullivan
Professor of Environment and Culture, Bath Spa University
Femke Broekhuis
Researcher, Project Director Mara Cheetah Project, University of Oxford
Daniel Crimston
Lecturer in Social Psychology, The University of Queensland
Tatyana Humle
Senior Lecturer in Primate Conservation, University of Kent
Joseph Tzanopoulos
Senior Lecturer in Landscape and Biodiversity Conservation, University of Kent
Matthew Hornsey
Professor, School of Psychology, University of Queensland
Francis Massé
Ph.D. Candidate in Geography, York University, Canada
Keith Somerville
Visiting Professor, University of Kent
Libby Lunstrum
Associate Professor of Geography, York University, Canada
Josephine B. Smit
PhD Candidate, University of Stirling