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# Barbary macaque conservation is colliding with farm viability in northern Algeria
- URL: https://intelligence.wildlandseco.com/2026-09-17-barbary-macaque-farmer-conflict-algeria/
- Published: 2026-09-17T13:58:20.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-17T13:58:20.000Z
- Description: A survey of 94 farmers found severe crop-foraging conflict around the Endangered Barbary macaque, including farm abandonment—an example of threatened-species conservation failing if coexistence costs stay local.
- Author: Benjamin Worlund
- Tags: Barbary macaque, human-wildlife conflict, Agriculture, Algeria, coexistence, Wildlife, Land, Governance, #ecological-intelligence, #brief-2026-09-17, #global-radar, #peer-reviewed, #geo-africa

Evidence

Peer-reviewed

Geography

Central North Algeria

System

Forest–farm interface and Barbary macaque human-wildlife conflict

## WHAT THE EVIDENCE SAYS

A Scientific Reports study surveyed 94 farmers in Central North Algeria about crop-foraging by Endangered Barbary macaques. Farmers widely perceived macaques as a nuisance, and the authors report that one third of farms had been abandoned in association with severe crop losses. Crop-foraging varied seasonally and with farm and landscape context, underscoring that conflict is shaped by how agriculture and macaque habitat meet rather than by species presence alone.

## WHY IT MATTERS / OUR READ

This is a coexistence problem, not just a wildlife problem. Conservation can become socially brittle when the benefits of maintaining a threatened species are broad but crop losses are concentrated on individual farmers. Durable protection therefore needs credible damage measurement, prevention and locally workable burden-sharing—not merely legal protection or awareness.

## CAVEATS / UNCERTAINTY

The evidence is based largely on farmer surveys and observational associations rather than experimentally measured crop loss or a controlled mitigation trial. Reported abandonment and perceptions should therefore be treated as indicators of conflict severity, not precise estimates of macaque-attributable economic loss.

## SOURCE

Scientific Reports  
[View original evidence ↗](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-71407-3?ref=intelligence.wildlandseco.com)

From the Morning Brief · 2026-09-17

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