Alternative cropping a poor guideline for HEC mitigation
A recommended HEC mitigation practice along forest fringes, using crop species that wild elephants find inedible, is misconceived and counter-productive, NWA field studies show. Alternative cropping is among HEC management guidelines recommended by conservation authorities in some countries (http://www.forest.uk.gov.in/files/01-HEC-guidelines.pdf), some scholars and hence some NGOs as well. As a result, villages along forest fringes have […]
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