Examples of human-wildlife coexistence?

[Megan Draheim]

Hi, all,

I'm looking for examples of communities who have decided for one reason or another to coexist with wildlife in situations where other communities would have likely had a more negative reaction to the animals. "Communities" can be defined rather broadly here, from a country to a village or collective, for example. Any ideas would be appreciated!

Thanks,
Megan

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[vidya athreya]

Hey Megan

most of india - wildlife - including large dangerous species (elephants to lions to leopards to wolves to hyaenas, foxes, jackals) are present outside protected areas in high density human use landscapes. conflict are inevitable but there never has been state wide policy of extermination (it came and went with the british) and nor are any animals viewed as "evil" (eg. some cultures outside India wolves are viewed as associated with the 'devil". Infact there are lot of institutions where animals are incorporated into social, regligious practices - with elephant god, and almost all of our (zillion gods) being associated with an animal, from the rat to the tiger. 

it is just that what goes out into public domain is from media reports which only report attacks on humans or humans attacking wildlife but the rest of the time when there are lot of human-wildlife interactions it is not reported at all so what we see and hear are extremely rare cases when you consider the extent of 'shared spaces' between wildlife and humans in India.

best

vidya

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[Coyote Watch]

Hello Megan,

We have a great compassionate wildlife community program in Niagara Falls Ontario, Canada. If you are interested in more details about our coyote coexistence program let me know. To compliment our framework we also have in place: Anti-Feeding By-Law, a non-lethal partnership - Coyote Response Team Niagara (CRTN) - assistance, rescue/release and front line intervention a collaborative effort between Niagara Falls Humane Society, Niagara Parks Police, City By-Law and CWC).

May I ask how this information is being applied? If we can provide any assistance please let us know.

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[Silanjan Bhattacharyya]

Dear Megan,

 

Do you include wild birds, monitor lizards, snakes, mammals like jackals, civets etc. as wildlife? Or, you are considering wild megavertebrates like tigers, elephants etc.
I've been looking at the wild animals (mostly the former group) traditionally living within human ecosystems like villages in West Bengal in India for last few years. Two of my PhD students are studying the basic question- how such wildlife can thrive within a human ecosystem.

 

If you can give me little more details about your questions and purpose of that, may be, I can give you some relevant information.

Bests.

 

Silanjan

 

Silanjan Bhattacharyya PhD.(I.I.Sc)

Head, Dep. of Zoology

West Bengal State University

Barasat, N-24 Parganas, Pin. 700 126

 

Member, Wildlife Advisory Board, Gov. of West Bengal

Member, West Bengal Biodiversity Board

 

[Julie]

Hey Megan - in the JGI study that Christina Ellis, Brian McQuinn and I were involved with we found that where cultural identity was supported by the existence of wildlife, rather than disrespected or ignored, communities valued the wildlife.  We were looking at endangered mega-charismatics and globally. It's not always an easy thing to have the stars align this way but it supports the framework we are now using for the HWCC training. Our case studies are now over 10 years old but I'm confident that more recent cases exist out there with the same findings.

Congrats on all of your recent exciting news,

Julie

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[Gerry Rising]

On 5/24/12 10:56 AM, Coyote Watch wrote:
> We have a great compassionate wildlife community program in Niagara
> Falls Ontario, Canada.

Ms. Sampson, I find your program very interesting and I would like to
consider writing about it in my Buffalo News "Nature Watch" column. I
join you in finding our attitude toward coyotes generally wrong-headed.
I will check your websites but, if you have other ideas to offer, please
get back to me. I don't mind stepping on the toes of local hunters and
trappers, but I wonder what has been your experience with them. Gerry Rising

[Janaki Lenin]

Hi Megan,

 

Are you looking for specific species case histories? I think I’d be hard put to find a case of total coexistence, what is generally the case is selective coexistence. The most celebrated case in India of course is the Bishnoi (in Rajasthan) coexisting with a variety of herbivores on their croplands which are considered pests elsewhere. These herbivores have almost sacred status and anyone caught harming one better watch out. But the community is intolerant of hyenas, wolves, jackals, snakes…

 

Another community near Bikaner (also in Rajasthan) worship rats (something to do with their goddess Karni Mata) and generally resist any attempt to control rodents in their crop fields. Their standard line is “We plant extra rows of grain for the rats, so they don’t affect us.”

 

Sri Lankans live with water monitor lizards in cities, towns, villages, compared to India – maybe because Sri Lankans consider them venomous and leave them well alone, merely chasing them when they steal chickens and pigs? I don’t know what Indians (in water monitor range) do but I’ve never seen one outside a sanctuary and even then it’s rare.

 

Same with peacocks, monkeys, king cobras, cobras….depends on what you’re looking for.

 

Best, Janaki

 

 

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[Aniruddh G, Vasava]

Hi Megan,

The pastoralists’ communities of Gir National Park, (in Gujarat) India have been living in quite a coexistence with the Asiatic lions, and have been rarely killed in retaliation, even when their cattle are killed. The coexistence seems to be a mixture of tolerance, respect and religious sentiments.

Anirudhkumar

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[Gopi Sundar]

To add to Janaki's note: There are also "accidental" cases of coexistence, though some like in the case of Sarus Cranes in India (and a host of additional bird species in agricultural landscapes), do require explicit acceptance by farmers who look askance at crop damages and many times help by protecting eggs from being removed for food by itinerant laborers (and other nomadic communities).

The Nilgai antelope is another interesting case where the name (literally translated to "Blue Cow") disallows most farmers from hurting/ killing them despite huge losses to crops by herds. I am not aware of formal documentation of this feature though.

Gopi.

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Hi All

I am Purnima devi Barman from Aaranyak being currently working on Greater
Adjutant Stork (GAS)in Assam. From last three years I am working in a
nesting colony of GAS in Dadara in the outskirts of Guwahati city. This
will probably be the largest colony of GAS in Assam. GAS breeds (
AuG-March)in the backyard of villagers in their private land and as a
result of repeated awareness programes with villagers they now accepted
the birds as their family member.
Those were days, when I started working, when people often complained
about the dirty nature of the birds as it is a carcass feeder. According
to them these dirty birds makes their campuss unhyginic by throwing their
foods down in their backyard. Cleaning the campus is an unnecessary job
for them.


Now after three years scene is completely changed. People treat the bird
as their own child. They feel proud to clean their faces, food materials
in their Campus. People have an ownership feeling for the birds.

Friends, Please suggest me how we can help those villagers!! They are of
poor economic backgroud as mostly of them are farmers.

Hats off to to the villagers of Dadara.


Many regards

Purnima Devi Barman
Wildlife Biologist, Aaranyak
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> To add to Janaki's note: There are also "accidental" cases of coexistence,
> though some like in the case of Sarus Cranes in India (and a host of
> additional bird species in agricultural landscapes), do require explicit
> acceptance by farmers who look askance at crop damages and many times help
> by protecting eggs from being removed for food by itinerant laborers (and
> other nomadic communities).
>
> The Nilgai antelope is another interesting case where the name (literally
> translated to "Blue Cow") disallows most farmers from hurting/ killing
> them
> despite huge losses to crops by herds. I am not aware of formal
> documentation of this feature though.
>
> Gopi.
>
> On 25 May 2012 19:20, Janaki Lenin <jan...@gmail.com> wrote:
>

>> Hi Megan,****
>>
>> ** **

>>
>> Are you looking for specific species case histories? I think I’d be hard
>> put to find a case of total coexistence, what is generally the case is
>> selective coexistence. The most celebrated case in India of course is
>> the
>> Bishnoi (in Rajasthan) coexisting with a variety of herbivores on their
>> croplands which are considered pests elsewhere. These herbivores have
>> almost sacred status and anyone caught harming one better watch out. But

>> the community is intolerant of hyenas, wolves, jackals, snakes…****
>>
>> ** **

>>
>> Another community near Bikaner (also in Rajasthan) worship rats
>> (something
>> to do with their goddess Karni Mata) and generally resist any attempt to
>> control rodents in their crop fields. Their standard line is “We plant

>> extra rows of grain for the rats, so they don’t affect us.”****
>>
>> ** **

>>
>> Sri Lankans live with water monitor lizards in cities, towns, villages,
>> compared to India – maybe because Sri Lankans consider them venomous and
>> leave them well alone, merely chasing them when they steal chickens and
>> pigs? I don’t know what Indians (in water monitor range) do but I’ve
>> never

>> seen one outside a sanctuary and even then it’s rare.****
>>
>> ** **

>>
>> Same with peacocks, monkeys, king cobras, cobras….depends on what you’re

>> looking for.****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Best, Janaki****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> ** **
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>> *From:* people-...@googlegroups.com [mailto:
>> people-...@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Megan Draheim
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 09, 2012 9:49 PM
>> *To:* people-...@googlegroups.com
>> *Subject:* P&W: Examples of human-wildlife coexistence?****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Hi, all,****
>>
>> ** **

>>
>> I'm looking for examples of communities who have decided for one reason
>> or
>> another to coexist with wildlife in situations where other communities
>> would have likely had a more negative reaction to the animals.
>> "Communities" can be defined rather broadly here, from a country to a
>> village or collective, for example. Any ideas would be appreciated!
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Megan

>> ****
>>
>> ** **
>>
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>> Megan M. Draheim****
>>
>> Department of Environmental Science and Policy****
>>
>> George Mason University****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> ** **

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[Megan Draheim]

Thanks for all of the great ideas, everyone!

Best,
Megan

[סיימון נמצוב Simon Nemtzov‎]

Megan:

 

In Israel there is a large project using barn owls (Tyto alba) for rodent pest control.  The project has been expanded to include farmers from neighbouring Arab countries and regions such as those in Jordan and the Palestinian Authority.  This is a big change in attitude for them, since the barn owl is considered by most Arabs as an evil animal and is often killed on sight.  

 

See: www.birds.org.il/743-en/Birding-Israel.aspx

See: www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/a-jew-an-arab-and-an-owl-walk-into-a-barn-1.380129

See:  http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/05/18/214955.html

 

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Hi, all,

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[Nisha Owen]

Hi Vidya,

How are you? Hope all is well! I was wondering, is there any chance I could have a copy of your thesis? I would like to cite your work in mine! If its a big file, could you dropbox it to me? Hope that would be ok, otherwise if you don't want to share it yet that is absolutely understandable. So, instead if you have anything you've published recently I'd love to get a copy of that?

Thank you!

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Nature Conservation Foundation, Mysore
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