Primates living near human settlements face persecution, crop raiding conflicts, electrocution, and road deaths that create major welfare challenges.
Human-wildlife conflict welfare for primates involves both acute harm (snaring, shooting, electrocution) and chronic stress from living in degraded, fragmented habitats near hostile human populations. The welfare solutions are interventions that reduce conflict without harming primates: better crop protection methods, power line insulation, community education, and livelihood alternatives that reduce dependence on bushmeat. These are simultaneously welfare, conservation, and development interventions — community welfare and primate welfare are linked. Snare removal programs, which operate in many African forests, directly reduce the most acute welfare impacts while building community relationships.