Wildlife Numbers May Be Improved By Team Work between Homo sapiens and Big Cats

Kaufui V Wong
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Kaufui V Wong: Coral Gables, USA

International Journal of Environmental Sciences & Natural Resources, 2016, vol. 1, issue 1, 22-26

Abstract: The World Wildlife Fund and the Zoological Society of London have sponsored a study which has concluded in October 2016, that the population of wildlife has decreased by 58% worldwide in the last forty years. This problem needs to be addressed. The attitude of Homo sapiens towards big carnivores has started to change about three decades ago around the Gir Protected Area (Gir PA), India. The people around the Gir PA in southern Gujarat, has possibly shown the way of how to collaborate with resident local lion pride to control deer and antelope populations in their area. The deer and antelope are agricultural pests and come frequently at night to graze on the choice vegetative tid-bits. Meanwhile, in Bangladesh, the people of the Ganges delta area collect wild honey from the wild bees that harvest their ware among the mangrove forests. The resident tiger(s) are left to control other poachers who try to steal the wild honey from the locals.

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Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.19080/IJESNR.2016.01.555555

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