Abstract
In recent years, agricultural damage caused by wild animals has been increasingly reported across Japan. Especially it is quite serious in farm areas. This study was aimed to find its influential factors in terms of the geographical distribution of the damage by wild animals in Sasayama city, Hyogo prefecture, by focusing on the connection between a damaged spot and a green tract of land as well as the connection between the damage scale and the distance from a village. The result showed that there was a relation between the location of the damaged area and the scale of flora or a tract of greens, and that the damaged zone was about 400 to 600 meters away from the edge of a wooded land, having something to do with the locations of roads and a residential area as well. As for the residents attitude toward damage, those who had directly suffered the damage tended to prefer the extermination of the animals to cope with the problem, while those who did not were more reluctant to take such a method. Therefore, the future compensation and the countermeasures should be individually made or taken, considering the characteristics of each damaged zone.
