DOG AND BULL
An investigation into carnivore-human conflict in and around Itanagar Wildlife Sanctuary, Arunachal Pradesh
 Globally, carnivores face many threats including habitat modification and fragmentation, diminishing prey base, poaching for skin, bones and claws and direct persecution by people following attack on livestock. As a free ranging livestock found only across north-east India, Mithun (Bos gaurus frontalis) a semi-domestic bovid is susceptible to predation causing economic loss to the villagers. The villagers retaliate by killing the predators ‘thought’ to be responsible for the depredation. This survey attempts to identify the causes of conflict, incorporating socio-economic and livelihood strategies of local communities, status of mithun, predators and wild prey. It also identifies methods for documentation and compares and reviews methodologies adopted to investigate the status of forest and relative abundance of wild prey and predator and their influences on carnivore-human conflict.
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