Human-Wildlife Conflict Driving Forces Increasing Livestock Populations – Increased densities in livestock production create an overlap of diets and forage competition with wild herbivores Results in over grazing and decline of local herbivore Abundance and distribution of wild prey – Abundance prey leads to increased predation – Decrease prey leads to diet change of predator which then focuses on livestock Climatic factors – Seasonal changes in rainfall or temperatures leads to diet and habitat change for animals 7
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