Nature conservation and resource characteristic of peat reserves in Ukraine

Theory and Design of Nature Reserves

Managing landscapes In a 2008 review, David Lindenmayer and a long list of distinguished conservation biologists review two decades of research on landscape management [5]. They identify a set of 13 factors that anyone managing a landscape for conservation should consider, and they group those factors under four boad themes: setting goals, spatial issues, temporal issues, and management approac...

Criteria for International Reserves ’ Adequacy : What level of reserves does Ukraine need ?

Discussion of reserves’ adequacy has renewed after financial crises in Asia and Russia. It became evident that large international reserves made countries less prone to crisis. Special attention was paid to the ratio of a country’s external short-term debt to reserves as a very successful marker of potential external vulnerability that generally outperforms other reserves’ adequacy criteria. Th...

Managing Nature Reserves for Cranes in China

During the past 15 years, China has established more than 300 nature reserves. Many of the wetland reserves have been created primarily to protect endangered cranes. This paper summarizes the status of 22 nature reserves, 13 for breeding cranes and 9 for wintering cranes. The nature reserves have often been established in areas heavily populated or intensively used for economic purposes. Many r...

Are Private Reserves Effective for Jaguar Conservation?

We present the first study of density and apparent survival for a jaguar (Panthera onca) population in northern Mexico using 13 years of camera trap data from 2000 to 2012. We used the Barker robust design model which combines data from closed sampling periods and resight data between these periods to estimate apparent survival and abundance. We identified 467 jaguar pictures that corresponded ...

Nature Reserves as Catalysts for Landscape Change