Title The snow leopard and the goat : politics of conservation in the western Himalayas / Shafqat Hussain ; foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan

Published Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2019]

Click on the following:
ProQuest Ebook Central

Copies

Description 1 online resource (xi, 217 pages) Series Culture, place, and nature : studies in anthropology and environment Culture, place, and nature. Contents The snow leopard and the goat in historical perspective -- Producing wilderness predators -- Human-wildlife conflict -- Domesticating landscapes -- Modernization and the transactional mode of conservation -- The political economy of the snow leopard Summary "Following the downgrading by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) of snow leopard status in September 2017 from 'endangered' to 'vulnerable,' debate has renewed about the actual numbers of snow leopards in the wild and strategies for facilitating coexistence between these enigmatic animals and humans. Evidence from Pakistan and other parts of the snow leopard home range shows that snow leopards rely heavily on human society for their existence, as domestic livestock accounts for as much as 70 percent of their diet. By maintaining that the snow leopard is a 'wild' animal, conservation NGOs and state agencies have put laws in place that punish farmers for attacking the snow leopard, but they avoid engagement with efforts to mitigate the economic burden suffered by farmers whose herds are reduced by snow leopards. This ethnography examines the uneven distribution of costs and benefits involved in snow leopard conservation in the Karakoram and Himalayan mountains of northern Pakistan and shows that for the conservation of nature to be successful, the vision, interests and priorities of those most affected by conservation policies--in this case, local farmers--must be addressed. The Snow Leopard and the Goat shows that characterization of this dilemma as a conflict between humans (farmers) and wildlife (snow leopards) is in fact misleading, as the real conflict is between two human groups--farmers and conservationists--who see the snow leopard differently"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 10, 2020) Subject Snow leopard -- Conservation -- Trans-Himalayas Snow leopard -- Effect of human beings on -- Trans-Himalayas Human-animal relationships -- Trans-Himalayas Wildlife conservation -- Political aspects -- Trans-Himalayas NATURE / Endangered Species Human-animal relationships Wildlife conservation -- Political aspects Asia -- Trans-Himalayas Form Electronic book Author Sivaramakrishnan, K., 1957- writer of foreword. LC no. 2019980120 ISBN 0295746580 9780295746586

  Permalink