The Cat Ba National Park area (Vietnam) with its tropical forest is recognized as being part of the world biodiversity conservation by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and is a well-known destination for tourists, with around 500,000 travelers per year. This area has been the site for many research projects; however, no project has been carried out f...

In Japan, yaen kōen or “wild monkey parks” are popular visitor attractions that show free-ranging monkey troops to the paying public. Unlike zoos, which display nonhuman animals through confinement, monkey parks control the movements of the monkeys through provisioning. The parks project an image of themselves as “natural zoos,” claiming to practice a more authentic form of displaying animals-i...

Data from four continuous ozone and weather monitoring sites operated by the National Park Service in Sierra Nevada, California, are used to develop an ozone forecasting model and to estimate the contribution of wildland fires on ambient ozone levels. The analyses of weather and ozone data pointed to the transport of ozone precursors from the Central Valley as an important source of pollution i...

The study addresses sustainable development in the forest and recreational park of Germia Capital City Kosovo. serves residents other visitors’ socioeconomic environmental needs, such as leisure, sports, meditation, biodiversity ecological roles. Sustainable management natural resources are a that meets needs present without compromising future generations’ ability to meet their own needs. used...

Urban forests offer multiple functions: they can balance negative effects from the environment and provide public with a place for leisure recreation. Hence, urban are crucial to ecology have been widely studied. In addition, relevant study results were applied policymaking in development forest park management. This evaluated ecological value of Sinhua Forest Park examined whether socioeconomi...

We reviewed literature reporting both total and methylmercury from biota from Acadia National Park, Maine, USA. Our review of existing data indicates that 1) mercury contamination is widespread throughout the Park's various aquatic ecosystems; 2) mercury pollution likely represents a moderate to high risk to biota inhabiting the Park; and 3) biota at all trophic levels possess elevated concentr...

this paper discusses the study of community’s preferences for biodiversity conservation management institution which may motivate them to support conservation efforts in the okwangwo division of the cross river national park, nigeria. the empirical data was generated from personal interviews and factors influencing the respondents’ choice were examined with the aid of multinomial logit mode...

Clark Graduate School of Geography, Clark University, Worcester, 01610, USA; Département de Géographie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, USA; Department of Natural Resource Sciences and McGill School of Environment, McGill University, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Canada; Geography and Urban Studies Department, Temple University, Philadelphia, 19122, USA; Department of International Development, Co...