Author Yaw Osei-Owusu and Lonneke Bakker

Year of publication 2008

This manual is part of a training package resulted from the project “Ensuring farmers’ livelihoods and food security around Kakum Conservation Area” executed in the north of the Kakum Conservation Area in Ghana’s Central Region and funded by FAO and Conservation International (CI). This technical manual aimed to inform to policy makers, conservation authorities, among other related stakeholders, about human-elephant wildlife conflict and the main strategies to protect humans from elephants, mitigate the conflict and prevent human-elephant conflict through land use planning.