Table 2 Benefits derived from the forest corridor linking the Rajaji and Corbett Tiger Reserves, Uttarakhand, India. (* values in parentheses indicate percentage of total households sampled)

From: An incentive-based mitigation strategy to encourage coexistence of large mammals and humans along the foothills of Indian Western Himalayas

Resource

Household dependent on forest resources (%)

Extraction (kg hh−1 year−1)

Mean ± S.E

Benefit (US $ hh−1 year−1)

Mean ± S.E

Contribution of forest product (% hh−1 year−1)

Mean ± S.E

Hills*

Plains*

Overall

Hills

Plains

Overall

Hills

Plains

Overall

Hills

Plains

Overall

Fuelwood

90.4 (19.8)

64.6 (50.5)

70.4

2304 ± 106

1433 ± 176

1678.7 ± 131

122 ± 5.6

76 ± 9

89 ± 7

6 ± 0.7

3 ± 0.7

3 ± 1

Fodder

85.5 (18.7)

11.2 (8.7)

27.5

4904 ± 233

4486 ± 302

4772 ± 186

259 ± 12

237 ± 16

252 ± 10

9 ± 0.3

4 ± 0.1

6 ± 0.5

Grass

68.1 (14.9)

6.1 (4.7)

19.7

3705 ± 87

2273 ± 266

3359 ± 104

196 ± 5

120 ± 14

177 ± 5

12 ± 0.7

8 ± 0.3

9 ± 1

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