Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) Toolbox

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Human-wildlife conflict: Elephants. Farmers manual

Author Yaw Osei-Owusu and Lonneke Bakker
Year of publication 2008
This manual is part of a training package resulted from the project “Ensuring farmers’ livelihoods and food security around Kakum Conservation Area” executed in the north of the Kakum Conservation Area in Ghana’s Central Region and funded by FAO and Conservation International (CI). The “Farmers Manual” intents to explain successful prevention/mitigation techniques on human-elephant wildlife conflict to rural populations.
Type of Tool
Guidelines, manual, kits for trainers
Scale of Application
National
Region
Africa
Biome
All
Forest Type
All forest types (natural and planted)
Primary Designated Function
All
Management Responsibility
Community/Smallholders