Table 5 Characteristics of different motivation categories
Motivation category | Characteristics |
|---|---|
Environmental | Explanations related to factors such as climate, abundance and scarcity |
Economic | Explanations pertaining to factors such as price, market value, and commercial availability |
Sociocultural | Explanations related to taste, aroma, flavor, health, ritual, and interest |
Agriculture and land use practices | Explanations related to changing agriculture and land use such as cultivation of cash crops, etc. |
Human-wildlife conflict | Explanations related to crop depredation by wild animals, attacks by wild animals on humans, etc. |