Certificate - Etheses - Saurashtra University

7. Suggestions and recommendations
To resolve human-brown bear conflicts, we know that both the rights of wildlife and
the livelihood rights of communities dependent on natural habitats need to be
protected. The current processes of development and commercialization threaten both
wildlife and local community livelihoods. Therefore, there is an urgent need to build a
system that integrates biodiversity conservation and people’s livelihood rights. The
integration of wildlife conservation and people’s livelihood requires actions to enable
local communities to manage and sustainably harvest natural resources for their
livelihoods, through establishing appropriate tenurial rights, and combining traditional
and modern knowledge to monitor the ecological impacts of such harvesting. There is
also a need to devise ecologically and culturally appropriate and equitable alternatives
for livelihoods that are currently unsustainable.
So there is need to develop innovative mechanisms or strategies including the use of
traditional methods used by the local communities, which can reduce brown bear
damage problems. Ecology of problematic species, nature and extent of damage and
circumstances of damage has been evaluated for developing mitigation strategies.
Based on the ecological study, human-brown bear conflicts and survey of affected
areas, the following general recommendations are made to reduce human-brown bear
conflicts.
1. The landuse patterns in the hilly areas are changing constantly. Under such
circumstances, some ameliorative action is required. Problem mitigation efforts
should be made by way of protection and improvement of natural habitat of wild
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