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Article: Linking snow leopard conservation and people-wildlife conflict resolution: grassroots measures to protect the endangered snow leopard from Herder retribution. (Felid Conservation).
- Article from:
- Endangered Species Update
- Article date:
- July 1, 2001
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Abstract
Livestock depredation has become a significant problem across the snow leopard's (Panthera uncia) range in Central Asia, being most severe in and near protected areas. Such predation, especially incidents of "surplus killing," in which five to 100 or more sheep and goats are lost in a single night, almost inevitably leads herders to retaliate by killing rare or endangered carnivores like snow leopard, wolf, and lynx. Ironically, such loss can be avoided by making the night-time enclosures predator-proof, improving animal husbandry techniques, educating herders on wildlife conservation and the importance of protecting the natural prey base, and by ...