is it possible to prevent human and wildlife conflicts in modern communities?

Question

the coexistence of human and wildlife is an environmental dilemma.is it possible to prevent human/wildlife conflicts in modern communities?

Answer 1

yes and some of the ways are :
Finding effective solutions to mitigate conflict between people and crop-raiding primates is problematic. Monkeys and apes are highly intelligent, social animals that have the capacity to learn new behaviours and skills from one another. Additionally, they are extremely dextrous, good climbers, and the larger species such as baboons and the great apes, are very strong and can be threatening.

As any primate zoo keeper knows, the challenge with these animals is how to keep them 'in'. The problem for people living in close proximity with them though, is how to keep them 'out'.

Traditionally farmers have killed animals that damage crops. This probably helped reduce the amount of crop damage occurring in fields, but perhaps more importantly compensated farming households in the form of meat to eat or sell.

Guarded
Where animals are protected, such as the great apes, farmers are not allowed to kill them. There's no chance of compensatory meat and farmers must invest large amounts of time and energy trying to protect their crops, guarding their fields against these animals, patrolling the boundaries and chasing out intruders when they are spotted. Dogs, slingshots, weapons and noise-makers are used to scare the animals away.

Guarding is still the most effective measure, but it's labour intensive and can be dangerous – primates may attack people trying to drive them out of the field. Even when closely guarded, more than half the annual crop can still be lost to wildlife. The potential costs of living alongside these animals can therefore be considerable: in addition children are often taken out of school to assist, setting up longer term problems

Answer 2

You can creat habbitat only for small wildlife in modern communities. The large animals that are seen that have learned to sucessfully adapt to living in human suburbia are coyotes, raccoons, opossums, and skunks.

Birds, certain squirrels, certain rabbits, and some other rodent & insectivores have also learned to cope.

Large wildlife cannot adapt. Deer and elk are too skittish, and leap into traffic all the time. Moose are downright dangerous.

What sane person wants their child waiting at a bus stop where cougar, grizzlies, or black bears are prowling.

Owls usually do not do well. They need the quiet so they can listen for the rustle of their prey, and all of our lights bother them.

Bats sometimes learn to do very well, hunting insects in the sodium street lights.

Sometimes birds of prey learn to hunt amoung the houses. Usually they meet with sad endings, and broken wings as they run into a bit of wire they could not see well. They also do not nest well near humans (usually).

The salamanders, newts, and native frogs & toads often cannot find a healthy place to live. The lawns and insects are too full of toxins, no decaying leaf matter leaves them little place to shelter.

Insects of course suffer terribly with humans. Humans only seem to attract the harmful insects, not the benificial ones.

Wolverines, mink, weasels, and otters are just plain too shy. Interesting they are all from the same family of animals, huh? Only the skunks have learned to live with humans the best they can.

Beavers are making a bit of a comeback. Of course they are usually trapped, killed, or have their homes blown up, when their work to make their habitat more livable begins to flood homes.

Many of the animals that have learned to live with humans are not even native animals. People just don't realize it.

~Garnet
Homesteading/Farming over 20 years
Active wildlife study over 40 years

Answer 3

There are some things that help prevent wildlife conflicts, like locking up trash and keeping areas clean to lessen temptation. We should also try to refrain from occupying wild areas to slow our intrusion into their habitat, not matter how tempting that serene, mountain home may be.

It's going to be more and more of a problem as humans continue to overtake natural habitats. Not only are humans forcing animals from their homes, but open territories are shrinking and it's really putting pressure on these creatures. Their shrinking romping grounds makes it even more difficult for many animals to find food, giving them added incentive for them to venture into neighborhoods and urban areas in search of a meal. Human-wildlife conflicts are dangerous, mostly for the animal, and it's only going to get worse, unfortunately.

Answer 4

Depends on were you live , No as long as theirs people building out more, and more developments, housings,wal-marts,so-on. there using up all of the unused space (wild) the animals have no more wild food they go in the city areas to look, I know you know that right. if you were to shoot them all bad idea it will disrupt the wild. if people would just learn. this may be hard to take but what I see humans as is a super greedy, violent fast spreading decease consuming the earths skin (crust) buildings and polluting everything in it path. once all of the wildlife is gone and open earths crust is filled up the great oceans are next.........then we will turn on one another.
from corruption from to little space.
So no matter what you do it will never happen just let them pass on throw if you don't mess with them they wont mess with you.

Answer 5

Sure this can be prevented. Shoot the trespassing wildlife. They have no business being where Humans live.

Answer 6

as long as human being are the judge there is no conflict.

Answer 7

yes.