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Wildlife-friendly land use: Would incentives work?
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India Together
The researchers report that 81 per cent of the surveyed landowners said they would be interested in adopting wildlife-friendly land-use programmes under an incentive programme that would entail setting aside a portion of their land for growing native, fruiting, and medicinal trees, while the rest of the land continued to be managed as it is managed today. The researchers also opine that growing wildlife friendly trees along with agricultural crops will reduce crop loss from elephants and wild pigs in the area, and create wildlife tourism assets as sources of revenue for landowners in the future. “Models include government-owned lands where wildlife conservation is a priority like national parks and sanctuaries, privately-owned wildlife parks and community-managed wildlife habitats.