1Assistant Professor & Section Head, Pig Breeding Unit, Postgraduate Research Institute in Animal Sciences, Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (TANUVAS), Kattupakkam, Tamil Nadu
2Former Professor and Head, Dept. of Veterinary & Animal Husbandry Extension education, Madras Veterinary College, Chennai-7
3Professor and Head, University Publication Division, TANUVAS, Chennai-51
*Corresponding author Email: senthilkumar.k.wls@tanuvas.ac.in
Online published on 3 July, 2020.
Human-wildlife conflict (HWC) arises when there is a compulsion to share common limited resources, such as land, game, livestock or fish. There has been more livestock loss in areas where people took their livestock to graze inside a reserve. Hence, a study was conducted to find out the socio-economic profile of the human wildlife conflict affected farmers in Tamil Nadu. Majority of the respondents were old aged, marginal land holders, educated up to secondary level, possessed medium unit of livestock, practiced agriculture and livestock as their primary occupation, had medium level of annual income and residing at 0.5 to 1 km away from the forest area. Nearly two-third of the farmers possessed medium level of knowledge with regard to various HWC. Among the human-elephant conflict farmers, half of the population had medium level of knowledge on HWC.
Age, Annual income, Education, Human-wildlife conflict, Knowledge
