Human–wildlife conflict and coexistence: a case study from Senkele Swayne's Hartebeest Sanctuary in Ethiopia

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Knowledge, attitude and practice of the local people towards human–carnivore coexistence in Faragosa–Fura Landscape, Gamo Zone, southern Ethiopia

“…This finding is in agreement with Mkonyi et al (2017) in the human-dominated landscape of northern Tanzania, where local people had better knowledge of larger carnivores than smaller ones. The present finding also corresponds with previous studies in other parts of Ethiopia (Mekonen 2020, Tamrat et al 2020). This may be due to higher livestock predation by carnivores and a higher encounter rate of large carnivores than the smaller ones.…”

“…Literature from Ethiopia generally suggests that most wildlife coexists with humans outside of protected areas in a human-dominated landscape (Mekonen 2020, Tamrat et al 2020, Gebo et al 2021, including the present study area. This coexistence poses resource competition and conflict, often linked to predators' damage to livestock.…”

Impacts of habitats and seasons on mammalian diversity and distribution in the Faragosa-Fura landscape, Gamo Zone, Southern Ethiopia

“…In the present study, Hippopotamus amphibius is distributed in three habitat types and the most abundant in wetland habitat. This might be because of their ecological preferences and adaptation of mammalian species playing a role in their distribution in different habitat types (Penjor et al, 2021;Tamrat et al, 2020;Udy et al, 2021;Wolf & Ripple, 2018). The presence of these conservation concern species demonstrates that the study landscape is a potential area for wildlife conservation.…”

“…Future work should seek to test and improve upon these measures of landscape heterogeneity and address other important ecological and anthropogenic factors. Impact of vegetation, impact of human disturbance such as roads, human-wildlife relation (Newbold et al, 2015;Penjor et al, 2021), competition among mammals and home range (Tamrat et al, 2020) and advanced survey approach (e.g., camera trapping (Penjor et al, 2021) should be surveyed.…”

“…In Ethiopia, most of the studies on mammalian species were confined to protected areas (Fetene et al, 2019;Wale, 2017) but the diversity and distribution status of mammalian species outside protected areas such as human-dominated landscape are poorly known (Gebresenbet et al, 2018). Be that as it may, the study of mammalian species in communal areas is equally important Lemma & Tekalign, 2020;Tamrat et al, 2020;Udy et al, 2021) even more because of the huge anthropogenic pressures (Burgin et al, 2018;Girma et al, 2012;Legese et al, 2019;. There are some documented information on mammalian species of human-dominated landscapes in the northern, southwestern, southeastern, and central parts of Ethiopia (Bakala & Mekonen, 2020;Gebresenbet et al, 2018;Getachew & Mesele, 2018;Lavrenchenko & Bekele, 2017;Legese et al, 2019;Qufa & Bekele, 2019) and a few in Southern Ethiopia (Diriba et al, 2020;Girma et al, 2012;Lemma & Tekalign, 2020).…”