Economic Analysis of Electric Fencing for Mitigating Human-wildlife Conflict in Nepal

作     者：Saraswoti SAPKOTA Achyut ARYAL Shanta Ram BARAL Matt W.HAYWARD David RAUBENHEIMER Saraswoti SAPKOTA;Achyut ARYAL;Shanta Ram BARAL;Matt W HAYWARD;David RAUBENHEIMER

作者机构：特里布万大学林学院 尼泊尔联邦民主共和国国家公园与野生动物保护部 新西兰梅西大学自然科学与数学学院 尼泊尔联邦民主共和国林业部 班戈大学自然科学学院 比勒陀利亚大学野生动物管理中心 悉尼大学兽医学院查尔斯.珀金斯中心 悉尼大学生物科学学院 

出 版 物：《Journal of Resources and Ecology》 (资源与生态学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2014年第5卷第3期

页      面：237-243页

核心收录：

学科分类：07[理学] 0713[理学-生态学] 

基　　金：supported by National Trust for Nature Conservation Nepal 

主　　题：human-wildlife conflict electric fence cost-benefit analysis Chitwan National Park 

摘      要：Human-wildlife conflict is one of the biggest conservation challenges throughout the *** conservation strategies have been employed to limit these impacts,but often they are not adequately monitored and their effectiveness ***,electric fencing has been constructed as a means to mitigate humanwildlife conflict surrounding many Nepalese protected *** date,there are no other studies analyzing the cost effectiveness and efficacy of fencing for *** study aims to examine the cost effectiveness of electric fencing in the eastern sector of Chitwan National Park,Nepal,where the fencing has recently been *** Indian one-horned rhinoceros（Rhinoceros unicornis）,wild boar（Sus scrofa）,Asian elephant（Elephas maximus）,and tiger（Panthera tigris） were the main wildlife species involved in human-wildlife conflict in the buffer zone area surrounding the park,where the fencing was *** fencing was significantly effective in reducing crop damage by 78% and livestock depredation by 30%–60%.Human mortality was not reduced significantly in the study areas and continued at low *** analysis suggested that total net present value of the cost of electric fence in Kagendramalli User Committee（KMUC） and Mrigakunja User Committee（MKUC） was 1 517 959 NPR（Nepalese Rupees,21 685 USD） and 3 530 075 NPR（50 429 USD） respectively up to the fiscal year 2009/*** present benefit in KMUC and MKUC was 16 301 105 NPR（232 872 USD） and 38 304 602 NPR（547 208 USD） respectively up to 2009/*** cost-benefit ratio of electric fence up to base fiscal year 2009/10 in KMUC is 10.73,whereas MKUC is *** results illustrate that the electric fencing program is economically and socially beneficial in reducing human-wildlife conflict（crop damage and livestock depredation） around the protected areas where large mammals occur.