1Department of Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616 USA 2Department of Biology, Pfeiffer University, Misenheimer, NC 28109, USA 3Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA 4Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, Regents Park, London NW1 4RY, UK 5Geography Department, University College London, Gower Stree...

— Five community wildlife conservation and utilization initiatives, or conservancies, on communal land in Namibia were appraised to determine economic and financial worth. Conservancies are economically efficient and able to contribute positively to national income and the development process. They also provide a channel for the capture of international donor grants (wildlife non-use values) as...

Department of Forestry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, U.S.A. Department of Geography, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, U.S.A. Colorado Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, U.S. Geological Survey, Fort Collins, CO, U.S.A. Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, U.S.A. Department of Statistics, Colorad...

In this paper we present work in progress for developing a semantic modeling system for wildlife monitoring, management and conservation. Based on a Greek NGO experience in large carnivores conservation in the mountain ecosystems of northern Greece, we present a generic architecture for wildlife information fusion, sharing and reuse. Our framework employs ontologies for representing the key dom...

In October 2010, some 18,000 delegates from 193 nations met in Nagoya, Japan, for the 10th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Convention on Biological Diversity, the international treaty to protect biodiversity. In Nagoya, governments reaffirmed their concern over the continuing loss of biodiversity and set new targets to address the crisis. Among the national delegations, indigenous people...

1 College of Natural Sciences, Bangor University, Bangor, UK, 2 Centre for African Conservation Ecology, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, 3 Department of Animal and Wildlife Sciences, Centre for Wildlife Management, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, 4 Endangered Wildlife Trust, Johannesburg, South Africa, 5 Panthera, New York, NY, USA, 6 Depart...

Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48823, USA. College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province 310058, China. Key Laboratory of Southwest China Wildlife Resources Conservation,Ministry of Education, ChinaWest Normal University, Nanchong, Sichuan Prov...

Copyright: The contents of this paper are solely the property of the authors, and cannot be reproduced without the permission of the authors. The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) is dedicated to saving wildlife and wildlands, to assure a future for threatened species like elephants, tigers, sharks, macaws, or lynx. That mission is achieved through a conservation program that protects some 50...

M A R K H E B B L E W H IT E ,^ M A R C O M U S I A N I t a n d L . S C O T T M IL L S J *Wildlife Biology Program, College of Forestry and Conservation, University of Montana, Missoula, M T 59812, USA, fFaculty of Environmental Design, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive N W , Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N2, -^.Wildlife Biology Program, College of Forestry and Conservation, Universi...