Technology can be used in a zoological setting to improve visitor experience, increase research opportunities, and enhance animal welfare. Evaluating the quality of these technological innovations and their use by nonhuman and human counterparts is a critical part of extending the uses of technology to enhance animal welfare and visitor experience at zoological parks. Survey data from a small s...

Background: The thermal regime of the Upper Rhine Graben (URG) is characterized by a series of anomalies near Soultz-sous-Forêts (France), Rittershoffen (France), and Landau (Germany). These temperature anomalies are associated with groundwater circulation in fractures and faults distributed in the Cenozoic and Mesozoic sedimentary cover associated with and connected to fractures originating de...

in order to assess the outing mkhmlkvh forest park area of 430 hectares located in the northern city of khorramabad, gis technology was used. maps of the slope, direction and altitude in the software and arcview3.2 arcgis9.2 were prepared. then combine them with a map of the earth was formed. rvyhmgzary map with the land, soil and vegetation classes, environmental unit maps were prepared. units...

We report a case study, where we have established the identity from a challenging biological sample of a deceased tigress by parentage analysis. A wildlife crime was committed in one of the zoological parks in India in the year 2000, where one young tigress was killed for its claws. This was of media interest for several days and remained an unsolved case for four years. A framed claw and decom...

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Using Parks to Improve Children's Health " Park prescriptions " are gaining popularity as researchers learn more about the benefits of spending time in nature. There's more to learn, however, about the ways in which nature imparts these benefits and the " dose " of nature required to achieve them.

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to determine the risk of acquiring disease from popular Sierra Nevada wilderness area lakes and streams. This study examines the relative risk factors for harmful waterborne microorganisms using coliforms as an indicator. METHODS Water was collected in the backcountry Yosemite and Kings Canyon National Parks and neighboring wilderness areas. A total o...

Civil wars are frequent in lesser-developed nations, wherein is harbored a disproportionate share of the world's biodiversity. These wars have had serious detrimental effects, direct and indirect, on conservation programs. From 2001 to 2005, we conducted site visits, personal interviews, and document searches bearing upon this problem as exemplified by Nepal's ongoing Maoist insurgency. Cases o...