TY - T1 - Understanding, quantifying and mapping the use of poison by commercial farmers in Namibia - Implications for scavengers' conservation and ecosystem health SN - / UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/174500 T3 - A1 - Santangeli, Andrea; Arkumarev, Volen; Rust, Niki; Girardello, Marco A2 - PB - Y1 - 2016 LA - eng AB - Effective nature conservation in human-dominated landscapes requires a deep understanding of human behaviors, perceptions and values. Human-wildlife conflicts represent relatively well-studied, global-scale conservation challenges. In Africa, vulture populations are collapsing as they fall victim to poison used by livestock farmers to kill predators, but our understanding of the prevalence of this practice is still very poor. We gathered data on the prevalence of poison use in Namibia by means o... VO - IS - SP - OP - KW - African vulture crisis; Commercial farmer; Human-wildlife conflict; Modern conservation; Poison use; Vulture collapse; RANDOMIZED-RESPONSE; ILLEGAL BEHAVIOR; WILD FAUNA; ATTITUDES; SERVICES; LANDSCAPES; CARNIVORES; DISEASE; HUMANS; 1172 Environmental sciences N1 - PP - ER -