Historical perspectives

Key Papers

Brien, M. L., C. M. Gienger, C. A. Browne, M. A. Read, M. J. Joyce, and S. Sullivan. 2017. Patterns of human–crocodile conflict in Queensland: a review of historical estuarine crocodile (Crocodylus porosus) management. Wildlife Research 44:281-290.  External resource 

Chakrabarti, R. 2009. Local people and the global tiger: an environmental history of the Sundarbans. Global Environment 2:72-95. Download

Gani, M.I.Z.A., Hassan, R., Tisen, O.B. & Ahmad, R. 2022. Human-Crocodile Conflicts in Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo: An analysis of crocodile attacks from 2000 until 2020. International Journal of Biology and Biomedical Engineering, 16: 186-195. External resources

Gervasi, V., V. Salvatori, G. Catullo, and P. Ciucci. 2021. Assessing trends in wolf impact on livestock through verified claims in historical vs. recent areas of occurrence in Italy. European Journal of Wildlife Research 67:82.  External resource

Karanth, K. K., and S. Kudalkar. 2017. History, location, and species matter: insights for human–wildlife conflict mitigation from India. Human Dimensions of Wildlife 22:331-346. External resource

Kareri, M. 2021. Parks and people: expropriation of nature and multispecies alienation in Nthongoni, eastern Kenya. Conservation and Society 19:248-258. External resource

Oommen, M. A. 2019. The elephant in the room: histories of place, memory and conflict with wildlife along a Southern Indian forest fringe. Environment and History 25:269-300. External resource

Pooley, S. 2018. Descent with modification: critical use of historical evidence for conservation. Conservation Letters 11:e12437. Download

Pooley, S. 2016. The entangled relations of humans and Nile crocodiles in Africa, c.1840-1992. Environment and History 22:421-454. External resource

Powell, J., J. C. Axmacher, J. D. C. Linnell, and S. M. Durant. 2021. Diverse locations and a long history: historical context for urban leopards (Panthera pardus) in the early anthropocene from Seoul, Korea. Frontiers in Conservation Science 2.  Download

Rust, N. A., and N. Taylor. 2016. Carnivores, colonization, and conflict: a qualitative case study on the intersectional persecution of predators and people in Namibia. Anthrozoos 29:653-667. External resource

Sands, D. 2022. Dewilding 'wolf-land' exploring the historical dimensions of human-wildlife conflict and coexistence in Ireland. Conservation and Society 20:257-267. Download

van der Ploeg, J., M. van Weerd, and G. A. Persoon. 2011. A cultural history of crocodiles in the Philippines: towards a new peace pact? Environment and History 17:229-264. External resource

van Eeden, L. M., B. P. Smith, M. S. Crowther, C. R. Dickman, and T. M. Newsome. 2019. ‘The dingo menace’: an historic survey on graziers’ management of an Australian carnivore. Pacific Conservation Biology 25:245-256. External resource

Walker, B. L. 2013. Animals and the intimacy of history. History and Theory 52:45-67. External resource

Books and book chapters

Adams, W. M. 2013. Against extinction: the story of conservation. Earthscan. External resource

Anderson, D., and R. H. Grove. 1989. Conservation in Africa: peoples, policies and practice. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. External resource

Brockington, D. 2002. Fortress conservation: the preservation of the Mkomazi Game Reserve, Tanzania. International African Institute. External resource

Cronon, W. 1995. The trouble with wilderness. Pages 69-90 in W. Cronon, editor. Uncommon ground: toward reinventing nature. W.W. Norton, New York. External resource

Dowie, M. 2011. Conservation refugees: the hundred-year conflict between global conservation and native peoples. MIT Press. External resource

Flores, D. 2016. Coyote America: a natural and supernatural history. Basic Books. External resource

Knight, J. 2000. Natural enemies: people-wildlife conflicts in anthropological perspective. Routledge. External resource

Lambert, R. A. 2015. Environmental history and conservation conflicts. Pages 49-63 in J. C. Young, K. A. Wood, R. J. Gutiérrez, and S. M. Redpath, editors. Conflicts in conservation: navigating towards solutions. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. External resource

Lewis, M. 2004. Inventing global ecology: tracking the biodiversity ideal in India, 1945-1997. Ohio University Press. External resource

Oommen, M. A. 2021. Beasts in the garden: human-wildlife coexistence in India's past and present. Frontiers in Conservation Science 2. Download

Pooley, S. 2013. No tears for the crocodiles: representations of Nile crocodiles and the extermination furore in Zululand, South Africa, from 1956–8. Pages 142-162 in W. Beinart, K. Middleton, and S. Pooley, editors. Wild things: nature and the social imagination. White Horse Press. External resource

Rabinowitz, A. 2015. An indomitable beast: the remarkable journey of the jaguar. Island Press. External resource

Shetler, J. B. 2007. Imagining Serengeti: a history of landscape memory in Tanzania from earliest times to the present. Ohio University Press. External resource

Somerville, K. 2016. Ivory: power and poaching in Africa. Hurst. External resource

Somerville, K. 2019. Humans and lions: conflict, conservation and coexistence. Taylor & Francis. External resource