HWCM - Ministry of Environment and Tourism

National Workshop on Human Wildlife Conflict Management 2005
Conflict
type/
animal
Elephants
List of
approaches
Infrastructure • Protect
water
installations,
crops, etc.
Population
management
(3 levels):
• culling • Reduce
population.
• disturbance • Should make
animals
avoid certain
area.
• shooting
individuals
Pros Cons Current /
potential
barriers &
solutions
• Solves
immediate
problem, for
example, of
low quality
fences.
• Very labour intensive;
• Large scale;
• Expensive;
• Maintenance –
especially with fences;
• Non-physical
boundaries: habituation
and adaptation of
animals;
• Restrictive, affecting
other species.
• Needs to be done
regionally;
• large effort;
• Not likely to have
sustainable success.
• Not proven to be
successful;
• Disruptive to elephant
societies.
• Expensive;
• High level of
management required;
• Dangerous.
Alternate crops • Need a market;
• Cultural element;
• Individuals on the
boundaries of conflict
areas being at a
disadvantage.
Self-reliance /
management
strategy
• Encourages
ownership of
mitigation
measures.
• Requires agreed
conflict
management
plan;
• Requires
capacity for
community to
internalise costs,
responsibilities,
etc.
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