wildlife
Since antiquity, bats have been misunderstood and shrouded in mystery. Given misnomers such as fledermaus ("flying mouse") and murciegalo ("blind mouse"), these nocturnal flying mammals were even classified as primates by the great Carl Linnaeus, based on his knowledge of the anatomy of large Old World fruit bats. In this beautifully illustrated volume, bat specialist Rick...
Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve (KTWR) which lies in the lowlands of eastern Nepal is the most important wetland for migratory water birds in Nepal, and one of the most important in Asia. It is surrounded by a buffer zone of 173 km2, in which over 80,000 people live, most of whom are dependent on the natural resource base for their livelihoods. Uncontrolled fish harvesting has severely depleted...
Wildlife trade and emerging infectious diseases pose significant threats to human and animal health and global biodiversity. Legal and illegal trade in domestic and wild birds has played a significant role in the global spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1, which has killed more than 240 people, many millions of poultry, and an unknown number of wild birds and mammals, including...
Tropical forest management is facing new challenges. New actors and partnerships for the conservation and sustainable management of forests have been formed and are operating at multiple scales. These new global-local partnerships received an impulse through: globalisation, which connects local communities with international actors such as environmental NGOs and research organisations lending...
This report presents the findings of a series of Global Witness investigations into illegal logging in the Aural Wildlife Sanctuary in southwestern Cambodia in 2004. It gives an overview of the industry structure as well as the key players.
Its main findings include:
- in Aural all the public institutions responsible for protecting the forest are...
Today, almost a billion people live in absolute poverty and suffer from chronic hunger. Seventy percent of these individuals are farmers — men, women and children — who eke out a living from small plots of poor soils, mainly in tropical environments that are increasingly prone to drought, flood, bushfires and hurricanes. Crop yields in these areas are stagnant and epidemics of...
In the borderlands of the United States and Mexico, a diversity of ecosystems and wildlife converge. This unique and ecologically signifcant area spans desert, mountain and subtropical habitats, supporting thousands of species of plants and animals, dozens of human communities and many sites of cultural and historic importance. Sadly, the combined impacts of undocumented immigration and border...
Aboriginal peoples’ respect for the grizzly bear (Ursus arctos) is widely acknowledged, but rarely explored in wildlife management discourse in northern Canada. Practices of respect expressed toward bears were observed and grouped into four categories: terminology, stories, reciprocity and ritual. In the south-west Yukon, practices in all four categories form a coherent...
The effects of landscape changes caused by intensive logging on the availability of wild game are important when the harvest of wild game is a critical cultural practice, food source, and recreational activity. The authors assessed the influence of extensive industrial logging on the availability of wild game by drawing on local knowledge and ecological science to evaluate the relationship...
Knowledge of the ecological effect of wildfire is important to resource managers, especially from forests in which past anthropogenic influences, e.g., fire suppression and timber harvesting, have been limited. Changes to forest structure and regeneration patterns were documented in a relatively unique old-growth Jeffrey pine-mixed conifer forest in northwestern Mexico after a July 2003...
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