Abstract: When the wild animals in Natural Reserves enter into contracted pastures, they’ll contest with livestock for grass, and destroy the contracted pasture. To deal with the conflict between wild animals and herdsmen, it’s needed to establish a management schedule. In this paper, an observation area along the boundary between Qiangtang Reserve and adjacent contracted pastures was chosen, and the existing ability of management, attitude of herdsmen, local knowledge system, as well as the management projects and proposals put forward by local people were evaluated through transect walk and semi-structure interview and strengths-weakness-opportunity-threats matrix analysis. The results indicated that under the conditions of livestock’s over loading and severe pasture degradation, it was difficult to prevent wild animals from entering into contracted pasture and contesting with livestock for grass, and was infeasible to let wild animals alone or build segregation wall. The protection of wild animals outside of Natural Reserves should be arranged in a proper sequence, and the management should be in accordance to the earning level of herdsmen and their tolerability to wild animals, and to the conditions of local finance revenue and knowledge system. Besides these, to attract herdsmen participating into management practice based on the principle of cost-benefit was of significance.

Key words: Wheat, Drought, Salt, Stress, Antioxidative defence system