Spatial modelling of where and why common leopard attacks on people occur in Nepal, to help target conflict prevention.
Authors
Shashank Poudel, Joshua P. Twining, Richard C. Stedman, Shravan Kumar Ghimire and Angela K. Fuller
Published in
People and Nature (British Ecological Society), 2023
About the study
Leopard attacks on people are a serious conservation and public-safety problem in Nepal. This study models the environmental, landscape and human factors associated with where attacks occur, identifying high-risk areas where prevention would do most good.
Contributions
- Identification of human–leopard conflict hotspots across Nepal
- Analysis of how forest edges and settlement density relate to attack likelihood
- A basis for spatial zoning of wildlife management interventions