Impacts

♤ Crop damage

♤ Livestock depredation

♤ Injuries to people

♤ Loss of human life

♤ Damage to property

♤ Injuries to wildlife

♤ Animal deaths

♤ Destruction of habitat

Preventive strategies

♤ Artificial and natural barriers (physical and biological)

♤ Guarding

♤ Alternative high-cost livestock husbandry practices

♤ Relocation: voluntary human population resettlement

♤ Waste management systems that restrict wildlife access to refuse

Mitigative strategies

♤ Compensation systems

♤ Insurance programmes

♤ Incentive programmes

♤ Community based natural resource management schemes (CBNRMS)

♤ Regulated harvest

♤ Increase alternate crops, preys or water points

♤ Wildlife translocation

♤ Conservation education for local populations

♤ Better sharing of information.