Human-Animal Conflict

Stray Cattle and Crop Destruction

Chhattisgarh’s stray cattle problem is enormous. While cattle shelters may prove useful in the interim, a long-term plan to make livestock economically viable post their productive cycles needs to be…
▶19-Feb-2025
Joshua Lobo
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Living with Elephants

Conservation efforts largely ignore landscapes where people and animals share the same habitat and conflict with each other. Making sense of life in such environments and easing tensions requires…
▶09-Jan-2025
Ambika Aiyadurai

Tiger-Human Conflict around Tadoba-Andhari Reserve of Maharashtra

Chandrapur district in Maharashtra is at the epicentre of human-tiger conflicts. Conflicts and fatalities are rising. The mental health of residents in the area has been severely impacted, with fear…
▶02-Dec-2024
Arathi Menon

Humans and Wildlife at the Forest's Edge

Questions of human-wildlife coexistence are invariably also questions of development. A spar between villagers and foresters over trapping a leopard outside a sanctuary in Uttar Pradesh some years…
▶13-Feb-2023
Rekha Warrier

Reforming How India Governs the Human-Wildlife Interface

Many low-income communities in India face serious burdens because the Wildlife Act prohibits killing certain wild species. The challenge is to reform wildlife management in a practical way while…
▶03-Jan-2023
Nitin Sekar, Aritra Kshettry, Mandvi Gaur, Vidya Athreya

Indian Street Dogs: A Feeder's view

To say that street dogs should not be fed at all is a clear violation of animal and human rights. If the feeders are following rules, their action cannot be termed as misguided compassion. Rather,…
▶25-May-2022
Prakarsha

Why Feeding Monkeys is Bad for Forests

"The next time you feel the urge to feed an animal, either to pay obeisance to a deity or to help a ‘starving’ animal, please ask yourself if your action could have unintended consequences,…
▶18-Mar-2022
Asmita Sengupta, Abi T. Vanak

Pitting People against Nature

India’s conservation laws, based on pseudoscience, have criminalised people’s defence against marauding wildlife. Democratically-constituted local bodies empowered to protect nature will be a more…
▶08-Dec-2021
Madhav Gadgil

A Stray Problem

Misguided compassion towards street dogs often leads to major human-dog conflict and worsens the problem. Every action of individuals or animal welfare organisations must be carefully thought through…
▶14-Jul-2021
Neha Panchamia, Sumedh Tarde, Abi T. Vanak