conservation
One of the causes of critical species depletion in the world is the increasing demand for wildlife products. Poaching, for example of rhinoceros, has long been rampant in Nepal, and has recently been facilitated by the reordered priorities and shifting constraints of the current emergency. The best hope for stopping or reducing the illegal exploitation of protected species lies in the...
On 16 December 2002, the United Nations General Assembly declared 2004 the International Year of Rice, recognizing that rice feeds more than half of the world’s population. Observance of the International Year of Rice is important to raise awareness of the role of rice in alleviating poverty and in providing food security and environmental conservation.
This article describes how...
The Sierra de Portuguesa is an Andean mountain system with important biodiversity associated with montane vegetation types. Human use existed well before European colonisation. Coffee plantations and slash-and-burn agriculture have been predominant in the last 200 years. Three distinct national parks — Yacambú, Terepaima, and Guache — were designated there at different times...
This article explores the applicability of the conventional wisdom that economic growth is paramount to environmental sustainability by examining ecotourism and nature-reserve sustainability in environmentally fragile poor regions. The discussion focuses on the Ordos Relict Gull Reserve in the Inner Mongolia region of China. The study evaluated reserve records of water and soil conditions and...
Data from legal records, management plans, and interviews with 63 local experts reveal the substantial expansion of 15 protected areas (PAs) of forest in Ecuador and Peru during the last two decades. Combining results for these PAs, the area under protection increased by over half, from 5,760,814 to 8,972,896 ha, with the Amazonian PAs adding the greatest expanse. Most of this expanded land...
This essay constitutes a piece of boundary work between science and policy. It illustrates the conflicts, but also the opportunities, that natural resource management encounters in the twenty-first century. The author has tried to provide a widely accessible document that argues why a more holistic approach to conservation and natural resource management is imperative....
Often when people think of the Sierra Nevada, they envision millions of acres of untouched wilderness forming the backdrop for small historic communities—communities that symbolise the rural, small town culture that so many Americans idealise. However, the Sierra Nevada region has been challenged to maintain this mix of rural life and wildness, and will continue to be challenged to...
The aim of this article is two fold: first, to depict key species and relate them to landscape units (LUs) to define habitats; second, to generate a sound network of protected areas to ensure the functional integrity of the ecosystem. In the present study, 6500 vertebrate and vascular plant species records were gathered into a database. A total of 137 sampling units were surveyed to verify key...
The Consortium for Sustainable Development of the Andean Eco-region (CONDESAN) is an association of public and private sector partners with a common focus, who take advantage of synergies to carry out and facilitate concerted action in research, training, development, and policy initiatives. Such action is designed to coordinate sustainable socioeconomic advances that promote the equity and...
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