In areas where people and wildlife share the same habitat, conflicts can arise between the two groups. This can undermine people’s tolerance of wildlife and thereby contribute to the ongoing decline in wildlife numbers. Hence, it is crucial to understand the factors that determine communities’ willingness to coexist with wildlife and tolerate potential costs in order to ensure the viability of landscape approaches to wildlife conservation. Kansky et al. (2021) examine the relative importance of monetary and non-monetary costs and benefits as drivers of tolerance to five potentially damage-causing mammal species. In addition, the authors compare drivers of tolerance across wildlife species.
The study by Kansky et al. (2021) focuses on the Zambian section of the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area that spans five countries in southern Africa. The surveyed communities experience high rates of human-wildlife conflicts and do not obtain significant monetary benefits from wild animals. This provides the opportunity…
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