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Complex ecological pathways underlie perceptions of conflict between green turtles and fishers in the Lakshadweep Islands

2013-11-01

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Managing human–wildlife conflict is often complicated by apparent mismatches between community perceptions and measures of directly incurred losses. Fishers in Agatti Island (Lakshadweep, India) associate recent increases in green turtle (Chelonia mydas) populations with declining fish catches, resulting in targeted killing of turtles. We compared fisher perceptions in Agatti with a very similar atoll, Kadmat, wit...

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DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2013.07.014

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