Conflicts between human and wildlife: an example of human and golden-takin conflicts in qinling mountains of china

Author: 
Latifa A. A. Altigani, Shuhai Bu, A. M. A. Adam, Kaichang Si, Xun-tao WU, Guochun Li and Huadong Song

Golden takin (Budorcas taxicolor bedfordi) is a good example to understand current wildlife management. Golden takin is herbivores, confined to Qinling Mountain areas of China. The aim of this study is to investigatethe impact of human-golden takin conflictand poaching of Golden takin in Qinling Mountains;to understand the movement activities of Golden takin in Guangtoushan at Qinling Mountains. Two years summer data were collected between June and August in 2014-2015 and 2015-2016 at Guangtoushan, Qinling Mountains; Moreover, two years winter data between October of 2013-2014 to March of 2014-2015 at Taibai Mountain, and October of 2014-2015 to March of 2015-2016 at Zhouzhi natural reserve using camera traps. The results of the studyindicated that, the most serious conflict do happened, 36 events in summer season were recorded ,nine (9) cases of human-golden takin conflict were recorded in the year 2000, June recorded the highest rate of conflict (35.71%), with the highest frequency of (30.32%) during theday time around 4:00-6:00 and 6:00-8:00 am in Guangtoushan. 23 skull samples at Qinling Mountains were discovered whichfound that, the malesof Golden takin exhibited the highest death frequency of about 18 individuals compared to 5 for the females. The Camera traps at Taibai Mountainsdetected 18 species, and 22 species at Zhouzhi natural reserve; Golden takin was the most abundance species representing 62.38% and 52.27% of the captures across the two winter periods at Taibai Mountain and Zhouzhi natural reserve, respectively.

Paper No: 
4213