Villagers who live in the Bhadra tiger reserve have been provided housing, electricity and employment in alternate locations. The resettlement seems to have worked so well that it is being touted as the "most successful resettlement project in the world". Further settlement in the wildlife reserve has been banned [tigers have reached critical mass at 1100 in India, this is a do or die effort to save them] The project is discussed in this peer reviewed paper: Making resettlement work: The case of India’s Bhadra Wildlife Sanctuary. Krithi K. Karanth* Nicholas School of Environment and Earth Sciences, P.O. Box 90328, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA I don't know anything much about wildlife conservation or resettlement. How are such schemes undertaken elsewhere? edit: one more Indian example, which also apparently worked: http://www.indiatogether.org/2008/sep/env-sariska.htm
