A temporal observational study was conducted of the Culicidae fauna in a remnant area of Atlantic Forest within a private reserve (Guapiaçu Ecological Reserve-REGUA) presenting typical vegetation cover of dense rain forest, with some patches recovering a floristic composition similar to that of the original community. Research was carried out to analyze the influence of climatic factors (mean m...

Forest reserves are spaces of conservation and often ecotourism as well. Evidence suggests that local community participation in the forest reserve space tends to break down under weak sector management. The Bossou Reserve (BFR) Guinea, West Africa has deteriorated considerably due fragmentation inexorable decline chimpanzee populations since 1970s. situation is largely attributable several com...

Almost one third of the forest areas (1.71 million hectares) throughout Nepal has been handed over to the local communities as community forests for ensuring the communities primarily to fulfill their basic needs of forestry products, besides their active participation on conserving biodiversity, and instigating social development at local level. More than 18,000 Community Forest User Groups (C...

General principles that shape community structure can be described based on a functional trait approach grounded on predictive models; increased attention has been paid to factors accounting for the functional diversity of species assemblages and its association with species richness along environmental gradients. We analyze here the interaction between leaf-litter ant species richness, the loc...

This is a case study of tourism policies made around the Satpura Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh, India. The purpose of this study is to analyse the state tourism policies in Madhya Pradesh. The study is divided in two parts, the first part analyses the state tourism policies using Foucault’s governmentality theory. The governmentality theory is used to expose the ideas in the policies with con...

The expansion of oil palm plantations at the expense of tropical forests is causing declines in many species and altering ecosystem functions. Maintaining forest-dependent species and processes in these landscapes may therefore limit the negative impacts of this economically important industry. Protecting riparian vegetation may be one such opportunity; forest buffer strips are commonly protect...