In June 2005, we collected 115 fecal samples from wild primates in western Uganda and examined them for Cryptosporidium sp. and Giardia sp. with the use of immunofluorescent antibody (IFA) detection. We sampled primates from an undisturbed forest in Kibale National Park and from 3 highly disturbed forest fragments outside the park. Of disturbed forest samples, red colobus (Pilocolobus tephrosce...

value of tourism and recreation are direct values of the forest ecosystem and parks, which include the use of parks and forest for recreation, leisure, hiking, and aesthetic. in this study, hasht behesht park recreational value and willingness to pay (wtp) is defined and measured by using contingent valuation method (cv) and double-bounded dichotomous choice (ddc). for measuring the willingness...

This study focuses on the carrying capacity estimation for Darkesh forest in Northeast Iran. Four factors were used for estimating the carrying capacity including tourist flows, size of the area, optimum space available for each tourist, and visiting time. Results showed that the physical carrying capacity was 2727 ha or 165 visitors/day, while the real carrying capacity was 2719 ha or 132 visi...

during 2004-2005, a faunistic study was carried out on the edaphic mites in sorche-hesar forest park of tehran. a total of 14 species belonging to 10 families were collected and identified, of which four species, viz. iphidozercon corticalis evans, dendrolealaps populi walker, holaspina alstoni evans and rhodacarellus silesiacus willmann, are new records for iran.

We use field data linked to satellite image analysis to examine the relationship between biodiversity loss, deforestation, and poverty around Kibale National Park (KNP) in western Uganda, 1996-2006. Over this decade, KNP generally maintained forest cover, tree species, and primate populations, whereas neighboring communal forest patches were reduced by half and showed substantial declines in tr...

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 conducted an analysis of deforestation and forest disturbance from 2005-2011 in Masoala National Park, the largest federal protected area in Madagascar. We found that the annual rate of forest change in 2010-2011 within the park (1.27%) was considerably higher than in 2005-2008 (0.99%), and was higher than the most recently published deforestation rate for all of Madagascar. Although defores...

Bach Ma National Park, situated in central Vietnam, 40km southeast of Hue and 65km northwest of Da Nang, is one of the eleven national parks in the country. The national park was created in 1991 to conserve the only green transect left in Vietnam, stretching from the South China Sea to the border with Laos. The dominant habitats are tropical evergreen monsoon forest in the lowland areas and sub...

A bryophyte inventory along an altitudinal gradient on Cerro Pirre (1200 m), Darién National Park, Panama, demonstrates that the different rain forest types along the gradient (inundatedlowland, hillside-lowland, submontane, montane elfin forest) have very different species assemblages. The montane forest has the largest number of exclusive species and the largest bryophyte biomass. Species ric...

In East Africa, human population growth and demands for natural resources cause forest loss contributing to increased carbon emissions and reduced biodiversity. Protected Areas (PAs) are intended to conserve habitats and species. Variability in PA effectiveness and 'leakage' (here defined as displacement of deforestation) may lead to different trends in forest loss within, and adjacent to, exis...