Considerable controversy surrounds the effectiveness of strictly protected areas that prohibit consumptive resource use. For Tanzania we compared temporal changes in densities of large herbivores among heavily protected national parks and game reserves, partially protected game-controlled areas, and areas with little or no protection. Comparisons based on surveys conducted in the late 1980s and...

© WILDLIFE BIOLOGY · 9:4 (2003) Biodiversity concerns are now seen as crucial factors in Finnish forestry, also outside nature reserves, i.e. in commercial forests. Foresters and other people earning their living from forestry are often rural people, and hunting is their axiomatic activity or has been a hobby since their youth. This is perhaps why forest professionals in Finland have always bee...

The guidebooks call Mpumalanga one of the "often overlooked provinces" of South Africa.[1] Northeast of Johannesburg, its grassy hills are just a blur on the highway for foreign visitors heading to the spectacular game reserves of Kruger National Park. They will not often get to Themba Hospital in White River, just 50 miles from the border with Mozambique, serving over three million of Mpumalan...

~ Strengthening biological theory in wildlife research and management: a case study for Botswana tat.8 Safari and subsistence hunting is permitted on a quota system within WMAs. hut not in national parks and game reserves. where there is little or no active management by DWNP. Unfortunately. Botswana's system of parks, reserves and WMAs may be insufficient to provide adequate protection for man...

A large portion of South Africa’s elephant population can be found on small wildlife reserves. When confined to enclosed reserves the elephant densities are much higher than observed in the wild. The large nutritional demands and destructive foraging behavior of elephants threaten rare species of vegetation. If conservation management is to protect threatened species of vegetation, knowing how ...

The helminths of the following red duikers, Cephalophus natalensis, were examined: 24 from 3 game reserves in Natal and 1 that had originated from Charters Creek, Natal, shortly before it died in the National Zoological Gardens, Pretoria. The 21 animals from Charters Creek harboured 16 nematode species, a nematode genus, 2 cestode species and paramphistomes. The 2 red duiker from Fanies Island ...

We analyze a dynamic contribution game to a public project, in which a group of agents exert costly effort over time to make progress on a project. The project progresses gradually, and it is completed once a pre-specified amount of progress has been made, at which point it generates a lump sum payoff. A standard result in these games is that equilibrium efforts are inefficiently low due to the...