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Background
Overview
Critical for understanding environmental challenges, biodiversity conservation, public health, and sustainable development in rapidly urbanizing regions. It highlights the complex interplay between human activities and ecological balance.
Human-Wildlife Conflict (HWC) refers to the negative interactions between people and wild animals, leading to adverse impacts on both sides, including loss of life, injury, crop damage, livestock depredation, and retaliatory killings of wildlife. It is a significant challenge to biodiversity conservation and sustainable development, often arising from habitat loss, fragmentation, and increasing human population density near wildlife areas.