Journal article
Beehive fences as a multidimensional conflict-mitigation tool for farmers coexisting with elephants.
- Abstract:
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Increasing habitat fragmentation and human population growth in Africa has resulted in an escalation in human-elephant conflict between small-scale farmers and free-ranging African elephants (Loxodonta Africana). In 2012 Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) implemented the national 10-year Conservation and Management Strategy for the Elephant in Kenya, which includes an action aimed at testing whether beehive fences can be used to mitigate human-elephant conflict. From 2012 to 2015, we field-tested t...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Disney Conservation Fund
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St. Andrews Prize for the Environment
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Rufford Foundation
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Ernest Kleinwort Charitable Trust
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Save the Elephants
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Wiley Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Conservation Biology Journal website
- Volume:
- 31
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 743-752
- Publication date:
- 2017-02-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-11-12
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1523-1739
- ISSN:
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0888-8892
- Pmid:
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28221699
- Source identifiers:
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810342
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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- Local pid:
- pubs:810342
- Deposit date:
- 2018-02-26
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- 2017
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