Spatio-temporal Pattern of Human Wildlife Conflict in Saiful Mulook National Park and its Vicinity
Spatio-temporal Pattern of Human Wildlife Conflict in Saiful Mulook National Park and its Vicinity
Karamat Shah1, Muhammad Fiaz Khan1, Zaib Ullah2*, Rashid Ali Khan1, Sajid Mahmood1, Naveed Akhtar2 and Muhammad Naeem Awan3
ABSTRACT
Human–carnivore conflict is frequently defined as a clash that is the result of interaction among community and wildlife or events by humans or wildlife that has an unpleasant outcome on both. Intimidation caused by carnivore towards injuries to individual, financial defense, damages to crops is increasing or the opinion that wildlife causes threats to human safety, health, food, and property. The current study was conducted from June to November, 2018, at Saiful Mulook National Park Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. For this purpose, 22 villages were selected in and around the park where the population of the wildlife was high. For the study purpose, questionnaire based survey and interview were conducted. In the study area, 300 questionaire were distributed through which the opinion of the respondent was taken by asking 13 different questions like crop damage, livestock depredation, season and months of damage, and people attributes towards the wildlife, etc. The domestic animals killed by the wildlife in the study area were the goats and sheep, (38.98%). The rate of depredation of livestock has been recorded to increase in the early summer season (60%), spring (15%), followed by winter (12%), and autumn is less (13%). Wildlife damage maize crop and majorly attack on the area of crops which are close to the forest in summer.
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