"While conservationists and social scientists have extolled the ‘tolerance’
of locals who live with wildlife, academic research has not focused enough
on the mental health of people who are the victims of human-wildlife
conflict. Given that incidents of human-wildlife conflict occur in such
large numbers across India, its impact on the mental well-being of victims
has largely been peripheral to the conservation discourse."
http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/RmRJLakxBvuUUQgvDRHzMI/Humanwildlife-conflict-and-mental-health-issues.html
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narayan sharma phd
assistant professor and head i/c
department of environmental biology and wildlife sciences
cotton college state university
pan bazar, guwahati - 781001, assam
honorary associate
nature conservation foundation
3076/5, iv cross, gokulam park
mysore - 570002, karnataka
phone: +91 80956 47720; +91 78969 51705
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