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Harnessing social media data to track species range shifts

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Biodiversity monitoring programs and citizen science data remain heavily biased toward the Global North. Especially in megadiverse countries with limited biodiversity records, incorporating social media data can help address existing data gaps.
Shawan Chowdhury, Niloy Hawladar, Ripon C. Roy, César Capinha, Phillip Cassey, Ricardo A. Correia, Gideon Gywa Deme, Moreno Di Marco, Enrico Di Minin, Ivan Jarić, Richard J. Ladle, Jonathan Lenoir, Mohammad Momeny, Jooel J. Rinne, Uri Roll, Aletta Bonn   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

'That plant is my ancestor'. The significance of intellectual property on food security in developing countries [PDF]

, 2013
The global significance of intellectual property laws is familiar to most of those interested in this area of law. What might be less familiar is the impact of intellectual property on the issue of food security in developing countries.
Farran, Sue
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Drones: Emergence of a transformative technology for island rodent eradications

Conservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.
Drones have emerged as a potentially powerful tool to address an ongoing need for alternative rodent eradication solutions on remote islands. This potential has now been demonstrated in a diverse set of operations across the Pacific. In the coming decades, this novel toolset also offers the possibility to step beyond existing paradigms and imagine a ...
Donal Smith, Rohan H. Clarke, Doug Gillings, David Will   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessment of ecosystem status in Mozambique and implications for environmental planning

Conservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.
We assess Mozambique's terrestrial ecosystems using the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems framework, showing that more than half of Mozambique's ecosystems are threatened, with impacts primarily concentrated in temperate subhumid grasslands and pyric tussock savannas.
Kendall R. Jones, Mervyn Lötter, Hugo M. Costa, Gautam Surya, Vanessa Rathbone, Hermenegildo Matimele, Eleutério Duarte, Tereza Alves, Célia Macamo, Denise Nicolau, Muri G. Soares, Roberto Zolho, Hedley S. Grantham   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

POLICY FRAMEWORK FOR UTILIZATION AND CONSERVATION OF BELOW-GROUND BIODIVERSITY IN KENYA

Tropical and Subtropical Agroecosystems, 2009
The reasons for the lack of inclusion of below-ground biodiversity in the Kenyan policy and legal framework were sought. Gaps were identified in the relevant sectoral policies and laws in regard to the domestication of the Convention on Biological ...
Celline Achieng, Peter Okoth, Ayub Macharia, Samwel Otor   +3 more
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The economic implications of a multiple species approach to bioeconomic modelling : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Applied Economics at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand [PDF]

, 2002
Human activity frequently leads to the endangerment or extinction of other species. While ecologists study the biological facets of species loss, economics, as the science of understanding people's behaviour, has been charged with investigating the ...
Fleming, Christopher Mark
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Importance of context‐specific community perspectives in human–wildlife coexistence: Evidence from Chitwan National Park, Nepal

Conservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.
This study examines community priorities for human–wildlife coexistence strategies across four administrative sectors of Chitwan National Park, Nepal, revealing marked differences among sectors. Results show that local communities in different sectors have distinct needs and expectations, indicating that uniform approaches are insufficient and that ...
Arockia E J Ferdin, Rajiv Pandey, Shyam Kumar Shah, Udit Chandra Aryal, Kumar Paudel, Abhinaya Pathak, Rinchen Zangmo, Babu Ram Lamichhane, Azlan Abas, Nagarajan Baskaran   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bake Sales to Save Nature: Why Wall Street Conservation Survives

Development and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Academics have spent decades analysing the harms and failures of market and finance‐led biodiversity policy. Yet, even though ‘selling nature to save it’ looks less like the promised green capitalism and more like a decades‐long bake sale in that its efforts are small, piecemeal and rely on copious amounts of cheap capital, the approach ...
Jessica Dempsey
wiley   +1 more source

Summary Report on Mountain Biodiversity in the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)

Mountain Research and Development, 2004
Eklabya Sharma, Ranju Acharya
openaire   +1 more source

CBD voluntary guidelines for safeguards: implementation pathways : Information Document for the 14th Conference of the Parties for the Convention on Biological Diversity, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt

, 2018
Mainstreaming biodiversity within and across sectors is a critical approach for achieving the objectives of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), as highlighted in Decision XIII/3 and theCancun Declaration by the high-level segment of the United Nations Biodiversity Conference in 2016(UNEP/CBD/COP/13/24). While numerous policies and tools exist
Hahn, Thomas, Ituarte-Lima, Claudia
openaire   +1 more source