Romancing the Elephant : A Strategy to Mitigate Human-Elephant Conflict (A Study)

Contents: Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction. 2. Human-elephant conflict - a concern. 3. Walk the national parks. 4. Phytogeography of the parks and suitability of the habitat for the elephants. 5. Population structure, density and biomass of large herbivores including the elephant. 6. Food requirement and availability for large herbivores including the elephants. 7. Feeding ecology of elephants. 8. Human elephant conflict: causes. 9. Strategy to mitigate human -elephant conflict. Epilogue. Bibliography. Annexures.

From the Introduction: "This study was conceived as on applied ecology and ecology of elephants apart from anthropocentric factors responsible for human-elephant conflict. In view of the fact that Asian elephant is now endangered throughout its range of distribution, due to ever exploding human civilization and ongoing developmental activities, a widely applicable education strategy and management principles, as required, are suggested in this book. The study undertaken, among others, is directed towards human-elephant conflict mitigation rather than conflict management to achieve peaceful coexistence. This study has also attempted in evolving short-term and long-term working system of elephant conservation by dovetailing modern science and technology with traditional practices.

The book is more systematic and organized around a broad, comparative approach between the national parks, namely Nagarahole and Bandipur. Such a comparison helps bring about academic and applied significance into focus and provides for conceptual frame work."