Write an essay about 700 words " Man - Elephant conflict in Assam "
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Biodiversity conservation organization Aaranyak has advocated for treating the escalating human-elephant conflict in Assam as “disaster" situation arguing that casualties on both the sides in recent years have surpassed deaths due to natural disasters like flood in the state. Aaranyak has also asked for allocation of funds by multiple departments for compensation of damages, including human deaths due to the conflict.The human-elephant conflict has worsened in Udalguri, Sonitp and other places too.64 humans and 53 elephants were killed in various parts of the state last year, surpassing the casualty figure due to the devastating flood that hit the state last monsoon. Altogether 53 people died due to drowning and landslides in three waveof flood that ravaged the state between June and September.
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It is widely recognized that human-wildlife conflicts can reduce farmers’ support for long-term
species conservation. The subject of human-elephant conflicts is highly relevant in villages
around Babati District in North Central Tanzania because of the closeness to Tarangire National
Park. The purpose of this study is therefore to examine local farmers’ attitudes toward elephants
and the attitudes’ effects on conservation efforts. Primary data was collected through a qualitative
approach of semi-structured interviews with twelve farmers in four villages around Babati, with
Wildlife Officer Nashon Macokesha at Babati District Council and with Allan Carlson, Nature
Conservation Expert at WWF. A thematic analysis was done to make comparisons between the
answers from farmers, Macokesha and Carlson. The Theory of Planned Behavior and the ValueBelief-Norm theory were also used to analyze the underlying factors of the farmers’ attitudes.
The results of this study show that around half of the farmers have positive attitudes toward
elephants, while the other half think negatively of them. Elephants were identified as the most
problematic species and crop-raiding as the most problematic type of human-elephant conflict. The
problems that farmers experience do to crop-raiding and other types of human-elephant conflicts
include the direct effects of lost livelihood and income and indirect effects like health impacts and
security issues. The result also indicates that factors affecting farmers’ attitudes toward elephants
include: 1) the proportion of available land affected by elephants, 2) the closeness of farmers’
fields to Tarangire National Park, 3) the lack of compensation, 4) the ability to affect the decisionmaking concerning the human-elephant conflicts and 5) the information about and knowledge of
elephants and their importance. The underlying cause of the human-elephant conflicts is identified
to be the spatial overlap of the two species. To prevent human-elephant encounters in the first
place, thereby reducing the risk of human-elephants conflicts, better land use planning can be used
to avoid settlement and cultivation close to protected areas. Buffer zones can be established
around national parks and reserves to reduce the overlap between humans and wildlife. Mitigation
through preventive and deterrent methods like lighting fires, making noises, using chili-dung or
chili-grease to scare elephants off farmers’ fields can also be used. Another alternative is to switch
from growing high-risk crops that elephants prefer to crops like chili or sesame which rarely gets
eaten by elephants.
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