Connected Conservation has published the following papers, manuals and reports based on comprehensive field research and are available as free downloads.
Community-based conservation programmes are rarely objectively assessed, particularly at the level of wildlife producers, who bear the costs of living with wildlife.
In the world’s largest transfrontier conservation area: A collaborative, multi-scalar assessment
Crocodile attacks on people are opportunistic. They can attack even when natural food is available. Hippos are considered to be responsible for more human deaths than any other large animal in Africa.
The KAZA TFCA supports more than 600 bird species with at least 524 bird species breeding within this TFCA.
Large predators require vast areas in which to roam, but human expansion and subsequent harassment by people increasingly restricts large predators to PAs.
Rodents remain one of the main nuisances to humans. For thousands of years they have been causing damage to crops, stored grain and infrastructure and are reservoirs for devastating human diseases such as plague and typhus.
The recent rapid escalation of human-wildlife conflict involving primates reflects today’s realities, that is, previous primate habitat has suddenly turned into human dominated habitat.
Attempts to understand the behavioural traits of damage causing small predators determine
the most effective methods for reducing predation of livestock, human attacks and transmission
of diseases to domestic animals.
Insects are essential for the proper functioning of all ecosystems as food for other creatures, pollinators and recyclers of nutrients.
Assist the affected communities in applying best management practice to reduce and mitigate the conflicts.
Human Elephant Conflict (HEC) is not a new phenomenon in the KAZA TFCA. Farmers (commercial
and subsistence) and elephants are increasingly coming into conflict as elephant habitat is converted to farmland.
Predicting the Likelihood of Human-elephant Conflict and Assessing Elephant Habitat Conditions During Extreme Drought and Crop Deficit in the Kavango-Zambezi Area
Spatial mapping shows that some African elephants use cognitive maps to navigate the core but not the periphery of their home ranges
Human wildlife conflict (HWC) is arguably one of the most pressing conservation issues across the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA TFCA)
It is widely recognized that humans have profoundly affected wildlife and the environment in many ways. This has manifested through habitat loss, pollution, introduction and spread of exotic and invastive species, overexploitation, and climate change.
Assessment of the human wildlife mitigation measures being implemented by Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA TFCA) Partner Countries
Results of field tests of chilli as an elephant deterrent
Investigating the potential for chilli Capsicum annum to reduce human-wildlife conflict in Zimbabwe
Investigating the potential for chilli to reduce Conflict in Zimbabwe
Can bees deter elephants from raiding crops? An experiment in the communal lands of Zimbabwe
The concept of home range in relation to elephants to Africa
Seasonal variation of feeding patterns and food selection by crop-raiding elephants in Zimbabwe
Community-based problem wildlife control
Towards an integrated approach for reducing the conflict between elephants and people: a review of current research
Linking two elephant refuges with a corridor in the communal lands of Zimbabwe
Community-based methods to reduce crop loss to elephants: experiments in the communal lands of Zimbabwe
Elephant-induced change in woody vegetation and its impact on elephant movements out of a protected area in Zimbabwe
Elephant / Human Conflict around Niassa Reserve, Mozambique
Elephant/Human conflict around the Luangwa National Parks, Zambia
Elephant / Human Conflict around Niassa Reserve, Mozambique
Capsicum oleoresin as an elephant repellent: field trials in the communal lands of Zimbabwe
Dual season crop damage by elephants in the Eastern Zambezi Valley, Zimbabwe
Elephant / Human Conflict around Maputo Elephant Reserve, Mozambique
Evidence for the effectiveness of an oleo-resin capsicum aerosol as a repellent against wild elephants in Zimbabwe