Date: August 27, 2018
Source: University of Kent
Summary:
A
geographic profiling tool used to catch serial criminals could help reduce the
casualties of human-tiger conflict, according to scientists who collaborated on
an innovative conservation research study.
The
results of their research, published in Nature Communications, help
explain how villagers in Sumatra coexist with tigers. If used pre-emptively it
could have helped cut attacks by half, saving tigers from poaching and
retaliation killings.
Dr
Matthew Struebig at the University of Kent's Durrell Institute of Conservation
and Ecology, in its School of Anthropology and Conservation and Dr Freya St.
John at Bangor University, led a collaboration between spatial ecologists and
social scientists to help predict where human-tiger conflict interventions
could be most effective.
Tigers
are on the brink of extinction due to deforestation and persecution. They are
highly threatened and pose a public threat, but in Sumatra tigers continue to
coexist with people, offering insights for managing dangerous wildlife
elsewhere. Millions of conservation funds are spent each year trying to reduce
people's risk of encountering harmful animals, and mitigating livestock losses
of local farmers.
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