Environment India

  Deforestation, rubber plantations rise leads to primate habitat changes, conflicts with humans in TRIPURA : STUDY Massive deforestation and increase in rubber plantations in Tripura have emerged as the major causes of change in the habitat of non-human primates as well as cases of monkey-human conflict in certain parts of Tripura, according to a study. The research titled, "Public opinion regarding Human-Monkey conflict and conservation of non-human primate in Sepahijala District of Tripura" found that 75% of the respondents involved in the study and living in villages located in the vicinity of reserve forest with dense rubber plantation opined that rapid rise in deforestation in the reserve forest was resulting in shrinkage of habitats of primates who are now forced to stray out. As many as 26.66% of respondents from the areas that have fewer rubber plantations have expressed the same opinion. The majority (56.66%) of respondents have said that the expansion...