Characterization and management of human-wildlife conflicts in mid-hills outside protected areas of Gandaki province, Nepal

• Kedar Baral ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kbaral@massey.ac.nz (KB); rkunwar@fau.edu (RMK)

  Affiliations School of Natural and Computational Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand, Division Forest Office, Kaski, Department of Forest and Soil Conservation, Kathmandu, Nepal

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• Hari P. Sharma,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Central Department of Zoology, Institute of Science and Technology, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal

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• Bhagawat Rimal,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Applied Science (CAS-Nepal), Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal

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• Khum Thapa-Magar,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Forest and Rangeland Stewardship Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States of America

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• Rameshwar Bhattarai,

  Roles Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Asian Center for Development, Kathmandu, Nepal

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• Ripu M. Kunwar ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kbaral@massey.ac.nz (KB); rkunwar@fau.edu (RMK)

  Affiliation Department of Geosciences, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9303-0932

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• Achyut Aryal,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Natural and Computational Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

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• Weihong Ji

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Natural and Computational Sciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

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