This scientific review of the Southern Ocean Sanctuary (SOS) was commissioned by the IWC Scientific Committee and presented to the IWC Steering Committee on 27-28 June 2004. This review addresses a number of questions related to the effectiveness of the SOS and provides recommendations on how to incorporate Marine Protected Area (MPA) concepts into the SOS and the IWC Sanctuary programme. Overa...

The Sanctuary project at UCSD is building a secure infrastructure for mobile agents, and examining the fundamental security limits of such an infrastructure. First, what do we mean by \secure"? An obvious issue is the privacy of computation. With standard approaches for agent-based systems, a malicious server has access to the complete internal state of an agent: software agents have no hopes o...

Munjughlu sanctuary zone with 5270 hectares in East Azarbaijan province is one of three sanctuary zones in the Marakan protected area.During 2008–2009, 236 taxa (23 subspecies, 22 varieties and one form) belonging to 166 genera and 38 families were collected and determined for this zone.Among them, 208 taxa are dicots and 28 are monocots. Family Compositae with 46 species and Cruciferae with 23...

and includes sites of high botanical interest. From 2000 to 2004, volunteers sent by the environmental charity Earthwatch helped to gather biodiversity data to back the scientific case for the sanctuary. Using this research, Earthwatch and NCRC demonstrated to the tribal chiefs that the creation of a sanctuary would provide a profitable alternative to unsustainable hunting and fishing. Investme...

Information on retroviruses infections in great apes is scarce, especially for apes kept in sanctuaries throughout Africa. To investigate the prevalence of retroviruses and possible transmission of different retroviruses originating from chimpanzees of different origin (Uganda, Congo and Rwanda), 38 wild-born captive orphan chimpanzees residing in a sanctuary on Ngamba Island were analyzed for ...

There are increasing numbers of private (nonprofit and for-profit) centers that carry out conservation research and education in locations of environmental concern. Such centers generate revenue streams that directly support conservation programs and also sustain surrounding human communities. This paper assesses the size of the centers' economic impacts. We conducted separate studies of the ec...

We present a habitat suitability index (HSI) model for black bears (Ursus americanus) living in the southern Appalachians that was developed a priori from the literature, then tested using location and home range data collected in the Pisgah Bear Sanctuary, North Carolina, over a 12-year period. The HSI was developed and initially tested using habitat nd bear data collected over 2 years in the ...

Abstract. Bautista JA, Manubag JJ, Sumaya NH, Martinez JG, Tabugo SR. 2023. Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding and fish visual census reveals the first record of Doboatherina magnidentatain Philippines. Biodiversitas 24: 3063-3072. Biodiversity monitoring is cornerstone for conserving marine species. However, classical methods, like Fish Visual Census (FVC), are often limited due to samplin...

Despite the wide variety of highly potent anti-HIV drugs that have been developed and made available in clinical practice over the years, eradication of HIV infection has not been achieved. Currently, HIV infection and AIDS are thought to be chronically treatable. HIV attacks host immune cells namely macrophages and CD4(+)T-cells and sequesters itself into sanctuary and reservoir sites such as ...