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challenges may help maintain positive attitudes towards wildlife conservation. Improving estate infrastructure and milk collection services, subsidizing prices for nutritional cattle feed and offering improved loans to help fortify cattle sheds are locally supported options. For cattle-rearing communities and leopards to coexist
and thrive in these landscapes, new strategies must consider the local context and attitudes. Further research should also consider factors not included in this study, such as person- al and social motivations, behaviours and actions towards leopards, and whether or not a culture of tolerance exists (Gebresenbet et al., 2018). Given that Palatupana and Maskeliya are both landscapes where it is essential to work with local partners, we acknowledge the potential bias that may arise with this presence and encourage future research to similarly recognize this limitation. Ultimately, there is also a need to move beyond snapshots of current attitudes, towards longer-term studies that evaluate how attitudes change with changing social and environmental factors.
Acknowledgements Fieldwork was supported by The Rufford Foundation, National Geographic Society and the City of Greenville Zoo; AU and ACB received funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada, Canada Research Chairs Program, and the University of British Columbia Faculty of Forestry; AK and AW were supported by Cerza Conservation. We thank Al-fayed Mohammed, Parami Pieris and the Maskeliya estate superintendents and staff for help delivering and translating surveys; Cinnamon Wild Sri Lanka for providing accommodation and field assistance; all survey and interview respondents for their participation; and the University of British Columbia Wildlife Coexistence Lab for feedback.
Author contributions Study design: AU, SH, AK, AW, ACB; data collection AU; data analysis: AU, with guidance from ACB, AK, EK; writing: AU; revision: all authors.
Conflicts of interest None.
Ethical standards This research abided by the Oryx guidelines on ethical standards. Approval (H18-01121) from the University of British Columbia Behavioural Research Ethics Board was obtained prior to the surveys being conducted.
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