objective: the aim of this study is to provide a management plan for the sykan watershed of darre shahr city located in ilam province using gis in land use planning. methods: for land using of sykan watershed of ilam province with about 9 hectares area, map of classes, elevation, percent slope, geographical aspects, soil characteristics, vegetation density and the final map units were combined ...

environmental degradation model is one of the environmental impact assessment (eia) methods in which ecological cumulative effects of human activities on his surrounding nature could be evaluated and quantified. as a special trait of landscape ecological metrics is the ability of rapid assess and recognize of human activities in the shortest time. thus in this study, we used a landscape degrada...

Protected areas in Kenya constitute 7% of the total land area with over 75% of wildlife in the country being found on private or communal land. Rural communities in Kenya, where protected areas generally exist, face a range of development issues with limited resources and livelihood opportunities. In this context, community-based biodiversity conservation has the potential to promote ecotourism...

Productive conservation, a sustainable development concept for the Amazon, ideally leads to economic development in rural areas with conservation of rain forest ecosystems. This study evaluates the human and environmental dynamics of productive conservation in Rondonia, Brazil, using as a case study beekeeping, which has been promoted by the World Bank-funded Rondonia Natural Resources Developm...

In a time of increasing urbanization, the fundamental value of conserving urban biodiversity remains controversial. How much of a fixed budget should be spent on conservation in urban versus nonurban landscapes? The answer should depend on the goals that drive our conservation actions, yet proponents of urban conservation often fail to specify the motivation for protecting urban biodiversity. T...

E. Nichols ([email protected]) and S. Spector, Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, Invertebrate Conservation Program, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th St., New York, NY 100245193, USA. T. A. Gardner, Biology Dept, Univ. Federal de Lavras, Lavras MG, 37200-000, Brazil, and Dept of Zoology, Univ. of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ, UK. C. A. Peres, ...

1 Department of Environmental Conservation, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA 2 Mongolia Program, Wildlife Conservation Society, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia 3 Mongolia Program Office, World Wide Fund for Nature, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia 4 USDA-WS-National Wildlife Research Center and the Department of Wildland Resources, Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA 5 Organismal Biology and Ecology,...

Objective: The aim of this study is to provide a management plan for the Sykan watershed of Darre shahr city located in Ilam province using GIS in land use planning. Methods: For land using of Sykan watershed of Ilam province with about 9 hectares area, map of classes, elevation, percent slope, geographical aspects, soil characteristics, vegetation density and the final map units were combined ...