Charting risk pathways of leopard attacks on people
A decision tree approach
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15327596 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Shweta Shivakumar (0000-0003-1855-8689, Centre For Wildlife Studies, corresponding author), Venkatesh Athreya (0000-0003-4555-8473, Wildlife Conservation Society India), Vidya Athreya (Wildlife Conservation Society India), Nikita Yardi (Tata Institute of Social Sciences), Morten Odden (0009-0007-3437-3744, University of Inland Norway), Sat Pal Dhiman (Government of Himachal Pradesh), Krithi K Karanth (0000-0003-4614-2648, Centre For Wildlife Studies) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 16-33 |
| Publication date | 2025-01-07 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Human Dimensions of Wildlife (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1087-1209 • E-ISSN: 1533-158X |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10871209.2024.2449420 |
| OpenAlex | W4406190645 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 56 |
The often-under-researched aspect of human-wildlife conflict (HWC) is the socio-cultural factors affecting a community’s experience of HWC. In this study, we examine the risk of leopard attacks in North India where ~ 3 fatal leopard attacks occur on people per year. We used a mixed method approach to weigh the risks of a person experiencing a leopard attack in Himachal Pradesh (HP) across parallel scenarios by (a) calculating the most probable pathway of experiencing a high-impact (death/grievous injury) outcome due to leopard attacks (b) documenting perception of leopard attacks. In HP, 344 people experienced leopard attacks and most attacks (75%) were non-predatory. Few (12%) attacks on adolescents (<15 years) were predatory. We found mentions of intangible impacts in more than half of the interviews. This mixed method analysis, grounded on local voices of experience, could be utilized by researchers and managers to navigate complex scenarios in human-carnivore shared spaces
Biology · Economics · Environmental resource management · Geography · Leopard · Tree (set theory · Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology · Wildlife Ecology and Conservation · Zoonotic diseases and public health · Ecology
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |