Human wildlife Conflict in Choke Mountain, East Gojjam, Ethiopia

Abstract

Human-wildlife conflict is widely known situation where people and wildlife share common resource. This study was conducted to investigate the perceived impact human-wildlife conflict in the Choke Mountain, East Gojjam, Ethiopia. Purposively 50 respondents select in four Kebeles was selected namely; Shewa kidanemihret, Awurare, Abegera and Abazazh-weybeyiny based on the presence of high Human wildlife conflict. The data was collect by using both primary and secondary data collection. The primary data was gathering by the way of questionnaire and personal observation. Secondary data also was collect through available sources such as books, journal, staff workers and website. The main causes of Human wildlife conflict were expansion of agricultural activities, over grazing, deforestation, human settlement and demand for firewood collection. There are many impacts of human wild animal conflict in the study area. Such as: crop destruction, habitat fragmentation, killing of domestic animals and also killing of wild animals. Majority of respondents reported the existence of HWC manifested through both crop damage and livestock predation. Anubis baboon, Grivet monkey and porcupine were mentioned as major crop raiders in the study area.50% of respondents reported that the most prominent sheep predation was caused by common jackal. There were respondents using traditional methods in which about most of them used guarding and some of them used smoking which was the highest and lowest method used respectively. Generally, based on the finding of this study, recommended Stakeholders to reduce habitat disturbance, Livestock grazing and other human activities, relocate agricultural activities out of wild animal ranges