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Cranberry Glades to Cranesville Swamp: High elevation wetland communities of the Allegheny Mountains

A unique part of West Virginia's natural heritage is bursting into life in the Allegheny Mountains. In the rest of the state, spring is well underway, but in the high elevation wetlands, frost may still cover the ground as the earth wakes.  Cold air drainage from the surrounding slopes collects in these high basins, known as "frost pockets". Many plants and animals that normally...

Checklist and approximate quantity of Non-Wood Forest Produce (NWFP) collected from Peppara Wildlife Sanctuary
The Peppara Wildlife sanctuary is a traditional resource base for substantial non-wood forest produce (NWFP). Checklist of NWFP from the sanctuary is prepared on the basis of data collected over a period of one given month; it is subject to the season, availability, market demands and to the known trade outlets. Major items such as fuel wood, fodder and some medicinal plants have been quantified...
Use of an ecohydrology model to predict the impact on the Serengeti ecosystem of deforestation, irrigation and the proposed Amala Weir Water Diversion Project in Kenya

The Mara River catchment is the dry weather refuge for more than one million migrating wildebeest and zebras of the Serengeti ecosystem. The river flow is affected by developments in Kenya, including deforestation and water diversion for irrigation and the proposed Ewaso Ng'iro (South) Hydropower Project. An ecohydrology model was used to predict the likely impact of these developments on the...

Sustaining the Sierra Nevada bioregion's integrity under growing human population pressure: Policy issues brief

<p>The Sierra Nevada figures boldly in the earliest American articulations of environmental conservation and protection and civil organizing around this concern. The founder of Sierra Club, naturalist John Muir, focused attention on these mountains and since then they have been kept on or near center stage by environmentalists. It is from the early 1990s however, that Californians more...

Convention on international trade in endangered species of wild fauna and flora

The convention states the need for:

  • recognising that wild fauna and flora in their many beautiful and varied forms are an irreplaceable part of the natural systems of the earth which must be protected for this and the generations to come;
  • conscious of the ever-growing value of wild fauna and flora from aesthetic, scientific, cultural,...
The dragons and the butterflies in the mountains of Africa

The Mountains of High Africa allowed Africans to be Africans long before the struggle for independence. The dynastic kingdoms of the Highlands of Ethiopia prevailed for centuries and it was the only part of Africa that was not really colonized. Not even the scorching sands of the Sahara and its general inhospitality could keep the colonizers out, as did the mountains. More recently, when the...

CITES and the Convention on Biological Diversity: In search of sustainable use of the Vicuna (Vicugna vicugna) in north-western Argentina

In Argentina, actions for the conservation of the vicuña have, until now, concentrated on regulating the commercialization of this species' valuable fiber. Even so, illegal commerce continues: in April 2000, the Secretary of Environment and Sustainable Development of the Province of Salta (SMADS), in the Northwest of the country, had seized 65 Kg (143 pounds) of fiber taken from 213...

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