The Ethical Conservation Alliance’s (ECA) Conflict Management Toolkit is a practical guide designed to help conservation practitioners, community partners, and policymakers understand and manage conservation conflicts—situations where wildlife negatively impacts human lives, livelihoods, or safety, and where differing human values and interests influence perceptions and responses. Drawing on decades of field experience, ecological and social research, and Indigenous governance principles, the toolkit aims to integrate ecological science, social understanding, and ethical practice into a cohesive framework for fostering coexistence. It emphasises fairness, empathy, respect, and reciprocity as essential to effective conservation. The toolkit offers a framework that practitioners can use when designing their conflict management programmes. It is intended for conservation practitioners, government wildlife managers, community facilitators, and educators working to promote coexistence between people and wildlife. This online, video-based toolkit should be utilised alongside the accompanying written document. The videos and written materials complement each other, and studying both will foster a deeper and more comprehensive understanding of conflict management and coexistence.
The Danube-Carpathian Programme is one of the contributors to the Toolkit.
