Flagships and Conflict
A major challenge for the deployment of several flagship species in non-Western contexts is that they may come into conflict with local communities, thereby jeopardizing well-intended conservation actions. This has been termed 'flagship mutiny' and is exemplified by the Asian elephant in countries where there is human-elephant conflict.
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“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”
—Winston Churchill (1874–1965)