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1/6 #HumWild1 #DICECON20 Governments and NGOs from the global north have had substantial influence over wildlife policies across Africa – so how does this impact local communities who live & farm alongside wildlife? 
#HumanWildlifeCoexistence #HumanWildlifeConflict
#HumanWildlifeCoexistence #HumanWildlifeConflict
2/6 #HumWild1 #DICECON20 eg. NGOs from the North, lobby against Sthn African policy of promoting #coexistence through sustainable wildlife use. For policies to be relevant in the global south, influencers should put themselves in the shoes of local 
to understand their realities
to understand their realities
3/6 #HumWild1 #DICECON20 Using the UK 
public as a proxy for the global north, we asked them to imagine living with #elephants in & compared their imagined tolerance to that of communities living with elephants in Zambia 
& Namibia 
public as a proxy for the global north, we asked them to imagine living with #elephants in & compared their imagined tolerance to that of communities living with elephants in Zambia & Namibia
4/6 #HumWild1 #DICECON20 We used the Wildlife Tolerance Model (WTM) by @RuthKansky as the framework to define tolerance & identify drivers of tolerance & hypothesised that public would be more tolerant than & to living with .
public would be more tolerant than & to living with .
5/6 #HumWild1 #DICECON20 Interim results: are more tolerant towards living with than from &, suggesting: are not able to fully comprehend African realities & more awareness is needed around their influence on African wildlife policies. Tolerance drivers TBD 
are more tolerant towards living with than from &, suggesting: are not able to fully comprehend African realities & more awareness is needed around their influence on African wildlife policies. Tolerance drivers TBD
6/6 #HumWild1 #DICECON20 
to supervisors @tanyahumle & @RuthKansky & to @DICE_Kent for funding. to @ruffordgrants & @elephantfamily for funding our 2021 research with @STzElephants to use the WTM to determine factors influencing tolerance of local towards in Tanzania 
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to supervisors @tanyahumle & @RuthKansky & to @DICE_Kent for funding. to @ruffordgrants & @elephantfamily for funding our 2021 research with @STzElephants to use the WTM to determine factors influencing tolerance of local towards in Tanzania .
