Buffer Zone Resources and Community Conservation: A Case Study of Handi Khola Buffer Zone User Committee, Parsa Wildlife Reserve

Buffer Zone Requirements For Agricultural Pesticide Applications

Page 16 Pesticides and You Vol. 24, No. 2, 2004 As suburban sprawl extends further into the countryside, the numbers of people who live, play and work near agricultural land is increasing. Due to pesticides drifting, thousands of individuals are directly affected by adjacent or surrounding agricultural fields where pesticide use totals nearly a million pounds a year. Pesticides used on lawns, o...

Beyond buffer zone protection: a comparative study of park and buffer zone products' importance to villagers living inside Royal Chitwan National Park and to villagers living in its buffer zone.

Even after 30 years of strict de jure protection, today's de facto extraction of products from Nepal's Royal Chitwan National Park (RCNP) and their great economic importance to local households suggests that this reality should be explicitly internalised in managing this world heritage park. Several studies have quantified local people's use of protected areas and estimated the value of such ar...

Microbial Community Structure Across a Wastewater-Impacted Riparian Buffer Zone in the Southeastern Coastal Plain

Riparian buffer zones are important for both natural and developed ecosystems throughout the world because of their ability to retain nutrients, prevent soil erosion, protect aquatic environments from excessive sedimentation, and filter pollutants. Despite their importance, the microbial community structures of riparian buffer zones remains poorly defined. Our objectives for this study were two...

The Bakassi Buffer Zone: Genetic versus areal classification

Community Strategies for the Conservation and Preservation of Forest Resources in Nsukka Agricultural Zone of Nigeria

The study identified the community strategies for conservation and preservation of forest resources in Nsukka agricultural zone of Nigeria. Nsukka agricultural zone is one of the three agricultural zones in Enugu state and is made up of six Local Government Areas (LGAs). A purposive sampling technique was used to select 48 respondents from two LGAs Nsukka and Uzo-Uwani based on their involvemen...