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Understanding, quantifying and mapping the use of poison by commercial farmers in Namibia – Implications for scavengers' conservation and ecosystem health

2016-12-01

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Effective nature conservation in human-dominated landscapes requires a deep understanding of human behaviors, perceptions and values. Human-wildlife conflicts represent relatively well-studied, global-scale conservation challenges. In Africa, vulture populations are collapsing as they fall victim to poison used by livestock farmers to kill predators, but our understanding of the prevalence of this practice is stil...

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Literature Corpus work: f52de5fb-0b8f-55f7-ba76-20e725070a07
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2016.10.018

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