“…Yet the evidence we have gathered at the village scale suggests that rather than stabilizing, buffalo numbers in our Southwest China case study villages have fallen drastically over the past decade. These findings replicate those from other authors working in Yunnan or in adjacent countries, including Laos and Thailand, who have documented similar trends (FAO, 2000;Liu, Hu, Ma, & Li, 2006;Nanda & Nakao, 2003;Riedel, Schiborra, Huelsebusch, Huanming, & Schlecht, 2012;Rigg, 2003;Shirai & Yokoyama, 2014).…”