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Poaching risks in community-based natural resource management.

Jessica S Kahler1, Gary J Roloff, Meredith L Gore

  • 1Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, 480 Wilson Road, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA. kahlerj1@msu.edu

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Summary

Local stakeholders

Area of Science:

  • Conservation science
  • Wildlife management
  • Community-based natural resource management

Background:

  • Poaching disrupts community-based natural resource management.
  • Monitoring poaching is challenging.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To map and rank poaching risk using local knowledge and records.
  • To compare stakeholder perceptions with poaching data.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized local stakeholder knowledge and poaching records.
  • Created spatially explicit maps of perceived poaching risk, wildlife damage risk, and wildlife distribution.
  • Compared maps with documented poaching events.

Main Results:

  • Recorded poaching events did not correlate with perceived poaching locations.

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  • Poaching events correlated with areas perceived as high risk for human-wildlife conflict.
  • Stakeholders identified abundant wildlife areas as high poaching risk.

    • Conclusions:

    • Poaching may be linked to human-wildlife conflict.
    • Integrated monitoring and interventions at the wildlife-agriculture interface are needed.
    • Stakeholder engagement in risk assessment supports conservation efforts.