The impacts of environmental education on reducing human-wildlife conflict

The protected areas management rules have been designated for conservation purposes, it has limited access to natural resources by villagers and tribes. conservational actions have increased the population of wild species, which will result in greater damage to gardens, agricultural land and domestic livestock. Rural and nomadic communities are in direct need of using these resources to provide their livelihoods. These laws, while ignoring the economy and livelihoods of local communities and focusing solely on protective laws, create a negative attitude towards the law and the tendency to escape the law of the local communities will increase. Consequently, the result will be a growing human conflict. After collecting and classifying data, descriptive and inferential statistical methods were used to analyze the data. Correlation analysis shows that there is a significant relationship between the local people's environmental awareness and reduce human-wildlife conflict. Correlation analysis shows that between independent variables: socio-economic factors of indigenous inhabitants, wildlife management, threats to ecosystem and wildlife, environmental behavior, awareness and knowledge of the protected area and sources of information in the area of conservation, there is a direct and meaningful relationship with the dependent variable of environmental education to reduce the challenge of humans and wildlife. Also, most studies only look at the technical aspects of reducing conflict between humans and wildlife, and environmental education is ignored. Therefore, to solve this problem, there is a need for a comprehensive long-term program that can cover social, cultural and protective aspects.