Demographic Circumstances and People’s Sentiments towards Elephants in the Human–Elephant Conflict Hotspot Villages of Keonjhar Forest Division in Eastern India
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Study Area
2.2. Data Collection
2.3. Data Analysis
3. Results
3.1. Understanding People’s Demography and Sentiments
3.2. Expert Opinion on Policy Instruments and HEC Mitigation Strategies
4. Discussion
4.1. A Context to People’s Demography and Sentiments in the HEC Hotspots
4.2. Suitable Policy Instruments and Mitigation Strategies
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Variables | Coefficient Estimate | Standard Error |
---|---|---|
Intercept ** | 0.661 | 0.025 |
Literacy * | −0.255 | 0.058 |
Worker * | −0.161 | 0.008 |
Cultivator *** | 0.3934 | 0.016 |
Marginal agricultural labourer ** | 0.085 | 0.065 |
Forest Range | Sentiments | No. of Villages | Percentage out of Total Workers in the Forest Range | Literates | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cultivators | Agri. Labourers | Employees | ||||
Barbil | positive | 2 | 47 | 33 | 9 | 61 |
negative | 0 | |||||
Champua | positive | 8 | 36 | 31 | 22 | 57 |
negative | 5 | 47 | 28 | 19 | 51 | |
Keonjhar | positive | 11 | 31 | 23 | 36 | 63 |
negative | 3 | 37 | 29 | 28 | 49 | |
BJP | positive | 3 | 21 | 39 | 17 | 53 |
negative | 1 | 26 | 47 | 11 | 49 | |
Patna | positive | 3 | 35 | 32 | 20 | 57 |
negative | 2 | 41 | 40 | 12 | 55 | |
Ghatgaon | positive | 5 | 24 | 41 | 23 | 60 |
negative | 2 | 26 | 45 | 18 | 55 |
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Tripathy, B.R.; Liu, X.; Ranga, V. Demographic Circumstances and People’s Sentiments towards Elephants in the Human–Elephant Conflict Hotspot Villages of Keonjhar Forest Division in Eastern India. Diversity 2022, 14, 311. https://doi.org/10.3390/d14050311
Tripathy BR, Liu X, Ranga V. Demographic Circumstances and People’s Sentiments towards Elephants in the Human–Elephant Conflict Hotspot Villages of Keonjhar Forest Division in Eastern India. Diversity. 2022; 14(5):311. https://doi.org/10.3390/d14050311
Chicago/Turabian StyleTripathy, Bismay Ranjan, Xuehua Liu, and Vikram Ranga. 2022. "Demographic Circumstances and People’s Sentiments towards Elephants in the Human–Elephant Conflict Hotspot Villages of Keonjhar Forest Division in Eastern India" Diversity 14, no. 5: 311. https://doi.org/10.3390/d14050311