Table 3. Acceptability of potential management strategies aimed at reducing human-onager conflict according to 101 farmers and herders within Bahram-e-Goor Protected Area (BPA), Iran.
| Conservation strategy | Number of responses | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| agree | neutral | disagree | |
| selling land to the government | 4 | 6 | 91 |
| exchanging 50% farmland/pastureland within BPA for an equivalent amount of land outside BPA | 23 | 6 | 72 |
| changing from a traditional farming/herding lifestyle to industrialized farming (for farmers) or livestock production (for herders) with the help of government | 67 | 10 | 24 |
| accepting monetary compensation to tolerate onager conflict | 76 | 9 | 16 |
| accepting a sedentary lifestyle instead of a nomadic one * | 41 | 13 | 31 |
| supplementary feeding of livestock for a period in the year with the help of the government * | 50 | 6 | 29 |
*Only asked from herders.