As amphibian populations continue to decline, both government and non-government organisations are establishing captive assurance colonies to secure populations deemed at risk of extinction if left in the wild. For the most part, little is known about the nutritional ecology, reproductive biology or husbandry needs of the animals placed into captive breeding programs. Because of this lack of kn...

In recent years there has been much interest in the conservation and tourism value of the Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique. Historically, biological and conservation work has been focused on the more accessible southern part of the Quirimbas. This paper is a contribution to the knowledge on the resources in the north of the Quirimbas following survey work conducted around Vamizi Island in 2001...

a USDA, Forest Service, Northern Region, 200 E. Broadway, Missoula, MT 59807, USA b College of Forestry and Conservation, University of Montana, Missoula MT, 59812, USA c USDA, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Forestry Sciences Laboratory, 800 East Beckwith Ave, Missoula, MT 59801, USA d Natural Resource Economics, College of Forestry and Conservation, University of Montana, Missoula MT, 59812,...

The issues of waste disposal are currently having a global technological and economic complexity. severity the environmental problem is specified by accumulation large volumes various wastes, including sewage sludge (SS). Modern technologies can provide its with benefits. SS rich source nutrients high fertilization potential. This work aims to study utilization wastewater in recycling technolog...

Smithsonian Institution, 647 Contees Wharf Road, Edgewater, MD 21037-0028, USA, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology , Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA, Tropical Ecology Assessment and Monitoring Network, Moore Center for Ecosystem Science and Economics, Conservatio...

BACKGROUND Many medicinal plants are increasingly endangered due to overexploitation and habitat destruction. To provide reliable references for conservation planning and regional management, this study focuses on large-scale distribution prediction of Rheum tanguticum Maxim. ex Balf (Dahuang). METHODS Native habitats were determined by specimen examination. An improved version of GIS-based p...

Recent estimates reaffirm that conservation funds are insufficient to meet biodiversity conservation goals. Organisations focused on biodiversity conservation therefore need to capitalise on investments that societies make in environmental protection that provide ancillary benefits to biodiversity. Here, we undertake the first assessment of the potential ancillary benefits from the ballot box i...

Programmes for conserving genetic resources have collected, received and stored hundreds of thousands of accessions of different cultivated species and their wild and weedy relatives. Collection and regeneration protocols must consider the species (i.e., allogamous, partially allogamous, autogamous and dioecious) to ensure that the sample is representative of the population. Previous studies ha...

ECOSYSTEM SERVICES, GOVERNANCE, AND STAKEHOLDER PARTICIPATION: AN INTRODUCTION The ecosystem services approach has gained popularity, and novel incentive-based ecosystem conservation strategies are increasingly being used. This calls for the reassessment and transformation of conceptual-theoretical, natural resource management, and governance approaches to conservation. In the past, conservatio...