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| Dar, M.A. | |
| Study of human-wildlife conflict in Kashmir valley with special reference to leopard and Asiatic black bear | |
| 2021 Full Book | |
This study of human-wildlife conflict was a questionnaire based survey carried out in all ten districts of the Kashmir valley. Since by far a survey based on the questionnaire was the best thing to do this type of study and about one thousand (1000) people belonging to the age group 18 to 76 years were questioned, with hundred (100) participants from each district by randomly selecting 5 villages from the conflict areas of each district. It was made sure that these sampling villages of the districts cover all the five (5) wildlife divisions of Kashmir valley. Questionnaire based surveys have mostly been used in wildlife science and have always proven beneficial. In this study, to assess the nature of the conflict and the conservation attitudes of people, interviews were done with the participants based on structured and open-ended questionnaires. People were questioned individually to make the results unbiased in order to collect information about the human wildlife conflict in their areas related to the general opinion about wild animals, their population trend, human casualties, crop raiding, predation behavior and conflict mitigating techniques. Apart from it all the cases concerned with wild animals, either their killings or their kill was recorded from 1st April 2016 to 31st March 2018. Information was gathered from concerned forest/wildlife officials, print and mass media sources and local people. First of all, a reconnaissance survey was done on whole study area and then every sampling village was visited for the purpose of collection of data. Observational/ocular methods were used for this study. Field data were collected from April 2016 to March 2018. During the study tenure, 17 human deaths were reported, of which 6 were due to leopards and 11 were due to black bear. 243 cases of human injuries were reported of which 36 were due to leopards and 207 due to black bear. |
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