Climate Change

Key Papers

Abrahms, B., Carter, N.H., Clark-Wolf, T.J. et al. 2023. Climate change as a global amplifier of human–wildlife conflict. Nat. Clim. Chang. 13, 224–234. External resource

Abrahms, B. 2021. Human-wildlife conflict under climate change. Science 373:484-485.  External resource

Abrahms, B., N. H. Carter, T. J. Clark-Wolf, K. M. Gaynor, E. Johansson, A. McInturff, A. C. Nisi, K. Rafiq, and L. West. 2023. Climate change as a global amplifier of human–wildlife conflict. Nature climate change.   External resource

Carpenter, S. 2022. Exploring the impact of climate change on the future of community-based wildlife conservation. Conservation Science and Practice, 4(1), e585. External resource

Gayo, L. 2025. A review of climate change, human population growth and poverty as potential drivers of human wildlife conflicts in Africa. Discov Anim 2, 49. External resource

Gehrt, S. D., E. M. Muntz, E. C. Wilson, J. W. B. Power, and S. D. Newsome. Severe environmental conditions create severe conflicts: a novel ecological pathway to extreme coyote attacks on humans. Journal of Applied Ecology.   Download

Guarnieri, M., Kumaishi, G., Brock, C., Chatterjee, M., Fabiano, E., Katrak-Adefowora, R., Larsen, A., Lockmann, T.M., and Roehrdanz, P.R. 2024. Effects of Climate, Land Use, and Human Population Change on Human–Elephant Conflict Risk in Africa and Asia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 121(6):e2312569121. External resource

Joram, N. and Nyathi, D. 2024. Complexities of Conflict: Climate Change, Elephants and Local Livelihoods in Lupane, Zimbabwe. EHASS, 5(13):2382-2397. External resource

Newsom, A., Z. Sebesvari, and I. Dorresteijn. 2023. Climate change influences the risk of physically harmful human-wildlife interactions. Biological Conservation 286:110255.   Download

Pecl, G. T. et al. 2017. Biodiversity redistribution under climate change: impacts on ecosystems and human well-being. Science 355, eaai9214. External resource

Salerno, J., F. Stevens, A. Gaughan, T. Hilton, K. Bailey, T. Bowles, L. Cassidy, P. Mupeta-Muyamwa, D. Biggs, N. Pricope, A. W. Mosimane, L. M. Henry, M. Drake, A. Weaver, S. Kosmas, K. Woodward, N. Kolarik, and J. Hartter. 2021. Wildlife impacts and changing climate pose compounding threats to human food security. Current Biology.  External resource

Shiweda, M., Shivute, F., Sales, A.R., & Pereira, M.J. 2023. Climate Change and Anthropogenic Factors Are Influencing the Loss of Habitats and Emerging Human–Elephant Conflict in the Namib Desert. Sustainability 15(16):12400. External resource

Books and reports

Fischer, Bob. 2025. Climate Change, Human–Wildlife Conflict, and Biodiversity Loss. In Animal Welfare and Human Welfare: The Moral Problems of Investing in Wild Animals, chap. 28. London: Routledge/Taylor & Francis. External resource

WWF (Climate Crowd). 2025. “Climate Change & Human-Wildlife Conflict: An Analysis of Climate Crowd Data.” WWF Reports. External resource