wildlife management. Based on this information we plan to improve assistance criteria, educational materials, and programs relative to urban audiences. Site Description Across the Midwest, metropolitan areas are growing and converting rural and seminative lands to manicured landscapes. Simultaneously, previously established locations within the urban areas are maturing. Parks and residential ar...

The private industry in wildlife damage control is expanding into territory predominantly occupied by public agencies in the past. There is a potential for overlap and competition in services provided by the public and private sectors in Kansas. We examined wildlife damage control activity reports from the Cooperative Extension Service (CES), Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks (IDWP), and ...

Traditionally, conservation efforts have concentrated on protecting plant and animal populations through the establishment of national parks and reserves. These protect only a small proportion of wildlife habitats and, in many countries, increasing their extent is difficult. This is certainly the case in many countries in Latin America, where enforcing wildlife protection laws is also difficult...

doi:10.4102/ojvr.v81i2.723 http://www.ojvr.org Screening for foot-and-mouth disease virus in livestockwildlife interface areas of Tanzania Authors: Emma Peter1 Christopher J. Kasanga1 Raphael Sallu2 Mkama Mathias2 Mmeta Yongolo2 Misheck Mulumba3 Ezekia Ranga4 Philemon N. Wambura1 Mark M. Rweyemamu1 Affiliations: 1Southern African Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance, Sokoine University of...

Safari parks, roadside menageries, exotic animal auctions and wildlife rehabilitation centres exist world-wide, and serve as sites of wild animal concentrations. When these animals are brought together, the potential is great for the spread and eventual outbreak of many different infectious and parasitic diseases. It is therefore necessary that procedures be developed in these facilities to min...

The aim of this study was to provide the first report on a new host for the digenean Paratanaisia bragai in the caninde macaw Ara ararauna along with the pathological aspects of the infection in the new host. The microscopic findings revealed the presence of granulomatous interstitial nephritis. This study contributes towards knowledge of parasitism by P. bragai in A. ararauna, and emphasizes t...

Eleftheria Dalmaris1,y, Cristina E. Ramalho2,y,*, Pieter Poot, Erik J. Veneklaas and Margaret Byrne School of Plant Biology, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia and Science and Conservation Division, Western Australian Department of Parks and Wildlife, Locked Bag 104, Bentley Delivery Centre, Bentley, 6983 WA, Australia * For correspondence. E-m...

1 Land and Water Flagship, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Wembley, WA, Australia, 2 Science and Conservation Division, Department of Parks and Wildlife, Kensington, WA, Australia, 3 Faculty of Science, Engineering and Technology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia, 4 Faculty of Science, Health, Education and Engineering, ...

GILFEDDER, LOUISE & KIRKPATRICK, ]. B., 1997 (31 :viii): Aspects of the distribution, phytosociology, ecology and management of Danthonia popinensis D.1. Morris, an endangered wallaby grass from Tasmania. ISSN 0080-4703. Pap. Proc. R. Soc. Tasm. 131: 31-35. Parks and Wildlife Service, GPO Box 44A Hobart, Tasmania, Australia 7001, formerly Department of Geography and Environmental Studies (LG); ...