1. The Bushbuckridge environment and potentials for conflict The Bushbuckridge area of South Africa, together with the Pilgrim's Rest and Graskop area that adjoins it at the top of the escarpment, is a complex and sensitive environment of human settlement, commercial agriculture and nature reserves. Bushbuckridge town, from which the region is named, is a small trading and administrative centre...

in the present study, the tangrah region located in the vicinity of golestannational park was selected for exploring the changes in the amount of the secondaryessential of hypericin in hypericum perforatum in different highlands of the easterngolestan province. the aerial flowered parts of the herb were collected randomly and inthree replications from four altitudes of 300 m, 600 m, 900 m, and ...

Protected areas (PAs) on tropical mountains undergo greater forest destruction in their lower altitudes. We compared the extent of forested, nonforested, and fragmented areas between lowland (o 1000 m asl) and montane zones of the Blue Mountains inside the Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park established in Jamaica in 1993. We found that in 2008, inside the montane zone, only 4 percent of...