Browsing by Subject "Conservation"
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Food insecurity related to agricultural practices and household characteristics in rural communities of northeast Madagascar.
(Food security, 2021-06-24)Ending hunger and alleviating poverty are key goals for a sustainable future. Food security is a constant challenge for agrarian communities in low-income countries, especially in Madagascar. We investigated agricultural ... -
GIS Prioritization of Little River Riparian Corridor in Montgomery County, NC
(2011-04-26)State parks, land trusts, and other conservation entities have very similar missions, to protect and conserve land. However, determining which land to conserve can vary within the mission of each organization. Habitat ... -
GOLDEN-CHEEKED WARBLER HABITAT PRIORITIZATION IN CENTRAL TEXAS
(2007-05)I examined the conservation opportunity for Golden-cheeked Warbler habitat represented by the initiation of the Fort Hood Recovery Credit System in the area immediately outside the boundaries of Fort Hood, Texas. Conservation ... -
Identifying Collaborative Opportunities for Environmental Conservation and Historic Preservation
(2012-04-26)Efforts to preserve open space in the United States have been conducted by land trusts, government programs, and private landowners. Most land trusts protect specific resources or environmental values, such as wetlands or ... -
Identifying Sites for Protected Areas Based on Endemic Species Richness and Threat in Madre de Dios, Peru
(2007-08-31)Species extinction rates 100 to 1000 pre-human levels are threatening the planet’s biodiversity. The Amazon rainforests are of particular importance to protecting species because of their extremely high levels of biodiversity. ... -
Life History Analysis and Identification of Potential Nursery Grounds for Juvenile Manta Rays
(2020-04-24)Manta rays are zooplankton consuming filter-feeders that have a global distribution across tropical, subtropical, and temperate waters. There are two recognized species of manta – the Giant Oceanic Manta, Mobula birostris, ... -
Local Communities Attitudes and Perceptions of the Fazao-Malfakassa National Park in Togo
(2018-04-27)The Fazao-Malfakassa National Park was established by forcing the local communities off their land and without taking into considerations their point of view. In addition, the government failed to conduct a good assessment ... -
Participatory Planning: Addressing the Disconnect between Local and External Stakeholders
(2022-04-22)Participatory approaches are being increasingly utilized in conservation projects. The idea stems from critiques of previous practice being too exclusionary resulting in poor outcomes. A broad theme in these critiques relates ... -
Political making of more-than-fishers through their involvement in ecological monitoring of protected areas
(Biodiversity and Conservation, 2020-12-01)© 2020, Springer Nature B.V. One strategy for ecological monitoring of protected areas involves data collection by local resource users instead of external scientists. Growing support for such programs comes from their potential ... -
Prioritizing Conservation & Development in Durham, NC
(2021-04-30)Durham, North Carolina is one of the most densely forested cities in the southeastern U.S. but is also part of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the region. Development is occurring at a rapid pace and often without ... -
Protected Areas’ Deforestation Spillovers and Two Critical Underlying Mechanisms: An Empirical Exploration for the Brazilian Amazon
(2015)To date, the creation of protected areas (PAs) has been the dominant policy in the efforts to protect forests. Yet there is still somewhat limited rigorous evidence about the impacts of PAs on rates of deforestation. Further, ... -
Site Prioritization in Klamath-Cascade Region using GIS
(2007-05)Several papers have pointed out the need to focus more on conservation planning on private lands. However, there are only a few strategies for private land conservation (Newburn et al. 2005). In most cases, field surveys ... -
Supporting Women Vanilla Farmers in Madagascar: The Promise of VSLAs and Alternative Livelihoods
(2023-05-10)To examine how to strengthen the income security and overall resilience of women vanilla farmers, I ask: How can Duke Lemur Center (DLC)-SAVA Conservation better support the livelihoods of local women vanilla farmers in ... -
The 2020 elephant die-off in Botswana.
(PeerJ, 2021-01-11)The cause of deaths of 350 elephants in 2020 in a relatively small unprotected area of northern Botswana is unknown, and may never be known. Media speculations about it ignore ecological realities. Worse, they make conjectures ... -
The Best Ground for Triangle Land Conservancy’s Good Ground Initiative: Assessing North Carolina Lands for Conservation and Agricultural Value
(2023-04-27)Land access is a critical part of maintaining our nation’s food system and fostering the growth of a new generation of farmers. Access to farmland has long been an issue for farmers of color, along with affordability and ... -
The potential of unmanned aerial systems for sea turtle research and conservation: A review and future directions
(Endangered Species Research, 2018-01-01)© The authors 2018. The use of satellite systems and manned aircraft surveys for remote data collection has been shown to be transformative for sea turtle conservation and research by enabling the collection of data on turtles ... -
The Presence of Great White Sharks: Associations with Environmental Factors
(2011-04-28)The white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) can be regarded as one of the greatest ambush predators on Earth. White sharks have learned the best techniques, places, and times to hunt to maximize their success rate. They are ... -
Towards Sustainable Harvest of Sideneck River Turtles (<italic>Podocnemis spp.</italic>) in the Middle Orinoco, Venezuela
(2010)Despite 21 years of protection, sideneck river-turtles (<italic>Podocnemis expansa</italic>, <italic>P. unifilis</italic> and <italic>P. vogli</italic>, arrau, terecay and galápago, respectively), an important food resource ... -
USING ECOLOGICAL AND SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATORS TO ASSESS THE SUSTAINABILITY OF THE RED RIVER DELTA BIOSPHERE RESERVE, VIETNAM
(2007-05)The Red River Delta Biosphere Reserve has been recognized as model of sustainable development since 1989 when Xuan Thuy Ramsar Site was founded. However, a number of studies have showed issues of “unsustainable development” ... -
Using species interactions in the management of Caribbean coral reefs
(2018)Across the globe, management and conservation agencies undertake numerous local actions to mitigate losses to coral reef ecosystems and aid in their recovery. While many of these strategies are designed to exploit natural ...
