Urban leopards are good cartographers: Human-nonhuman and spatial conflicts at Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Mumbai
Résumé
Mumbai is one of the few metropolises that is endowed with a national park. Spread on 104 square kilometers, thirty times larger than Central Park in New York, this park is a forest, not a municipal garden, with the highest density of leopards (panthers) in the world. Mumbai has also the dubious privilege of being the megacity with the highest population density in the world. Is it so surprising that, in 2004, leopards killed nineteen persons? Even though attacks later stopped for several years before starting again recently, even though the human-nonhuman conflict cannot be explained only by mathematical ratios...