Human-Wildlife Conflict is becoming a development issue, affecting achievement of National biodiversity targets and Sustainable Development Goals, and several National and State efforts focussing on poverty alleviation and sustainable livelihoods. This makes it important to ensure that there is coherence between the planning and actions at the National, State and local levels. Further, HWC mitigation requires a coordinated effort by key sectors and stakeholders, and unless addressed in a synergistic manner, HWC may seriously undermine the development gains achieved by these sectors. Hence there is need for developing State level strategies aligned with the National Strategy and Action Plan, for effectively mitigating human-wildlife conflict in the country. A coordinated approach is required to ensure uniformity in content as well in the methodological steps on the preparation of State HWC Strategy and Action Plans.

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