Monitoring and research activities may hinder rather than improce conservation in tropical countries. This paper identifies some critical threats to biodiversity and the limited resources for defending against them. It suggests various contributory factors, and a few common sense options for impr...
Sheil, Douglas
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[Conservation and biodiversity monitoring in the tropics: realities, priorities and distraction]
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Conservation and biodiversity monitoring in the tropics: realities, priorities and distraction
This paper analyzes the growing role of municipal governments in Bolivia and Nicaragua in forest-related issues on the basis of some thirty case studies. It first provides background information on forest issues and legislation concerning municipal involvement in forest issues in the two countrie...
Kaimowitz, D.
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Pacheco, P.
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Mendoza, R.
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Barahona, T.
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[Municipal governments and forest management in Bolivia and Nicaragua]
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Municipal governments and forest management in Bolivia and Nicaragua
In the 1980s, Nicaragua's Sandinista government faced armed mestizo and indigenous insurgencies in much of the nation's central and eastern region. After the Sandinistas lost the 1990 elections, the in-coming government signed peace agreements with the insurgents and facilitated their return to c...
Kaimowitz, D.
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Faune, A.
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[Contras and comandantes: armed movements and forest conservation in Nicaragua's Bosawas biosphere reserve]
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Contras and comandantes: armed movements and forest conservation in Nicaragua's Bosawas biosphere reserve
Mozambique’s Niassa Reserve contains Africa’s best preserved miombo woodlands. Half of
the households there gather wild honey from natural hives for consumption and income. However, most
collectors used destructive techniques: setting fire to the grasses under the
hive tree to create smoke and...
Snook, L.K.
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Alves, T.
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Sousa, C.
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Loo, J.
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Gratzer, G.
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Duguma, L.
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Schrotter, C.
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Ribeiro, N.
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Mahanzule, R.
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Mazuze, F.
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Cuco, E.
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Elias, M.
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[Relearning traditional knowledge to achieve sustainability: honey gathering in the miombo woodlands of northern Mozambique]
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Relearning traditional knowledge to achieve sustainability: honey gathering in the miombo woodlands of northern Mozambique
To reduce discarding of plaice Pleuronectes platessa in the North Sea flatfish fisheries, the major nursery areas were closed to large trawlers in 1995. The area closed was named the ‘Plaice Box’ (PB) and beam trawl effort fell by over 90%,while the exemption fleets of small flatfish beam trawler...
Beare, Douglas J.
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Rijnsdorp AD
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Blaesberg M
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Damm, U.
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Egekvist J
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Fock H
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Kloppmann M
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Röckmann C
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Schroeder A
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Schulze, T.
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Tulp I
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Ulrich C
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Hal R. van
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Kooten, T. van
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Verweij M
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[Evaluating the effect of fishery closures: Lessons learnt from the Plaice Box]
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Evaluating the effect of fishery closures: Lessons learnt from the Plaice Box
Stolton, S.
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Dudley, N.
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Avcioglu Cokcaliskan, B.
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Hunter, D.
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Ivanic, K.Z.
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Kanga, E.
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Kettunen, M.
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Kumagai, Y.
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Maxted, Nigel
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Senior, J.
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Wong, M.
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Keenleyside, K.
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Mulrooney, D.
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Waithaka, J.
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[Values and benefits of protected areas.]
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Values and benefits of protected areas.
This study assesses the social, economical, ecological, political, legal, and institutional implications of options related to ‘resettlement’, ‘boundary change’, and ‘enclave’ delineation for each of the five park villages.The study finds that attempting to resettle all the villages from the Koru...
Diaw, C.
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Tiani, A.M.
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Jum, C.N.
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Milol, A.
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Wandji, D.N.
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[Assessing long-term management options for the villages in the Korup National Park: an evaluation of all options]
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Assessing long-term management options for the villages in the Korup National Park: an evaluation of all options
Conservation efforts at local, regional, and global scales often focus on threatened species despite recent calls to adopt more equitable and potentially more economically rational approaches. Critics contend that conservation planning centered only on threatened species fails to deliver cost-eff...
Drummond, S.P.
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Wilson, K.A.
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Meijaard, E.
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Watts, M.
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Dennis, R
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Christy, L.
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Possingham, H. P.
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[Influence of a threatened-species focus on conservation planning]
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Influence of a threatened-species focus on conservation planning