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Title: Conflict between Nomadic Herders and Brown Bears in the Byang thang Region of Tibet
Language of title: English
Author/Creator: John D. Farrington
Dawa Tsering
One Sentence Summary: A study evaluating the impact of recently introduced wildlife conservation policies in the south-central Byang thang area of the Tibet Autonomous Region.

Description: Creator's Description: In order to evaluate the impact of recently introduced wildlife conservation policies, a human-wildlife conflict survey of three hundred herding households was conducted in the south-central Byang thang (Qiangtang) area of the Tibet Autonomous Region (Bod rang skyongs ljongs, Xizang Zizhi Qu). Results showed that Tibetan brown bears were the largest source of human-wildlife conflict in the survey area, affecting 49 percent of surveyed households between 1990 and 2006, with a 4.5 fold increase in conflict with bears occurring since implementation of various wildlife protection policies beginning in 1993. Types of bear conflict included livestock kills, raiding of human food supplies, damage to dwellings and furnishings, and direct attacks on herders. Brown bears have caused devastating economic losses to herders and anecdotal evidence indicates that retaliatory killing of bears by herders now poses the greatest threat to the Tibetan brown bear. Immediate measures must be taken to resolve this conflict if humans and brown bears are to coexist in the Byang thang region.

Publisher: Tibetan and Himalayan Library
Normalized publisher place: Charlottesville, VA
Publisher country: United States
Publisher URL: http://www.thlib.org
Published Date: 2008-12
URL: http://www.thlib.org/collections/texts/jiats/#jiats=/04/farrington/
Classification: Tibetan and Himalayan -- Journals -- Journals Focused on Regions -- Tibet -- JIATS -- Issue 4 (December 2008)
Tibetan and Himalayan -- Journals -- THL-Hosted Online Journals -- JIATS -- Issue 4 (December 2008)
Cultural Coverage: Tibet
Language: English
Source URL: http://www.thlib.org/collections/texts/jiats/#jiats=/issue04/
Source: Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies
Source Editor: David Germano
José I. Cabezón
Source Type: Journal
Source Number: 4
ISBN/ISSN: 1550-6363

Means of availability: Also available as a PDF at http://texts.thlib.org/static/reprints/jiats/04/farringtonJIATS_04_2008.pdf

Access rights: Public domain
Format: Online resource
Media type: Text
Resource Type: Article
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Date Of Record Creation: 2009-05-10 08:10:58
Date Record Checked: 2009-05-10
Date Last Modified: 2009-05-10 08:11:18
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