Conservation in Bale Mountains National Park, Ethiopia

Effectiveness and cost efficiency of monitoring mountain nyala in the Bale 1 Mountains National Park , Ethiopia

Due to the financial limitations faced by many protected areas today, identifying 1 cost-efficient monitoring protocols has become important in ensuring the long term sustainability 2 of conservation. The selection of monitoring protocols is usually driven by a range of factors, 3 such as widespread practice or accuracy with the cost efficiency of protocols rarely considered. 4 The mountain nya...

Floristic Composition and Structure of the Dry Afromontane Forest at Bale Mountains National Park, Ethiopia

The floristic composition and structure of the Dry Afromontane Forest at Bale Mountains National Park was studied from July 2003 to June 2004. A total of 90 plots were established at three sites (Adelle, Boditi and Gaysay) at an altitudinal range of 3010–3410 m. The cover abundance values, density, and diameter at breast height and list of species were recorded in each plot. About 230 species b...

State of Conservation Report on Simien Mountains National Park, World Natural Heritage Site (Ethiopia)

Forest-dwelling African wild dogs in the Bale Mountains, Ethiopia

Ethiopia harbours several relict populations of African wild dogs Lycaon pictus, but most data is anecdotal. Wild dogs are known to occur atypically in the montane wet forest of Harenna in the southern slopes of Bale Mountains National Park, southeastern Ethiopia. A questionnaire-survey of 90 Harenna forest residents investigated the local people’s knowledge and attitudes to wild dogs. Wild dog...

Uncertain Emission Reductions from Forest Conservation: REDD in the Bale Mountains, Ethiopia

The environmental integrity of a mechanism rewarding Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) depends on appropriate accounting for emission reductions. Largely stemming from a lack of forest data in developing countries, emission reductions accounting contains substantial uncertainty as a result of forest carbon stock estimates, where the application of biome-averaged data o...