Insurance to promote human-wildlife coexistence
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2023
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International Institute For Environment and Development
Abstract
This guide is for governments, conservationist
practitioners and insurers to design and introduce
insurance schemes to reduce human-wildlife conflict
(HWC) and promote human-wildlife coexistence.
HWC imposes significant costs on poor, small-scale
farmers and pastoralists in many parts of the world,
particularly those living adjacent to protected areas
and on larger-scale operations such as plantations.
Costs include losses from crop damage, livestock
injury or death, property damage and human injury
or death. Opportunity and other indirect costs add to
the burden of HWC. Biodiversity is also impacted as
wildlife is often injured or killed in retaliation.
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Citation: International Institute for Environment and Development, AB Entheos, Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka, Seratu Aatai, Actuarial Partners and Zoological Society of London (2023) Insurance to promote human-wildlife coexistence: A guide for governments, conservationists and insurers. IIED, London.