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

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

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

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 .

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

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 .