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Addressing human–elephant conflicts in Taita Taveta County, Kenya: Integrating species distribution modeling into targeted conservation strategies

Global Ecology and Conservation
Increasing competition for space and resources at the agriculture-conservation interface poses critical challenges to wildlife conservation, often intensifying human–wildlife conflicts throughout the globe, including Kenya.
Tino Johansson, Martha Munyao, Petri K.E. Pellikka, Sakari Äärilä, Patrick Omondi, Mika Siljander   +5 more
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A man of his time: Joseph Leidy, racial science, and American anatomy

Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Professor Joseph Leidy M.D. was arguably the most influential anatomist in the nineteenth‐century United States, having written over 500 publications and serving as the first President of the Association of American Anatomists. While many of Leidy's diverse contributions to American science and medicine are well‐known, scholars have said much ...
Christopher D. E. Willoughby
wiley   +1 more source

Historical Account of Managing Overabundant Wild Asian Elephants in Myanmar by the Kheddah System of Capture: Philosophy, Principles and Practices

Animals
When standard methods of human–elephant conflict mitigation are not successful, free-ranging wild elephants may continue to come into close contact with people.
Khyne U. Mar
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Chairman's report: African Elephant Specialist Group

Pachyderm, 1993
Notes that the funding for conservation and management is inadequate and since it appears that poaching has returned in some area and the human/elephant conflict is increasing throughout the range states work must be maintained and augmented.
Holly Dublin
doaj   +1 more source

The sensory ecology of fear: African elephants show aversion to olfactory predator signals

Conservation Science and Practice, 2021
Human–elephant conflict is a persistent problem across elephant home ranges, that results in economic damage to commercial and subsistence farmers, and physical harm and death to humans and elephants.
Kim Valenta, Melissa H. Schmitt, Manfred Ayasse, Omer Nevo   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Migrant success in UK Education: Are there lessons for government social mobility policy?

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The school achievement and career aspirations of 23 sixth form students at a multi‐cultural urban academy in the UK are explored through interviews. The sample includes 16 s‐generation migrants, 6 UK‐born students with migrant parents and 1 UK‐born student, selected to represent a cohort of over 300 post‐16 learners.
Bernard Barker, Kate Hoskins
wiley   +1 more source

Crafting Colonial Companions: Zionist Botany in Palestine, 1900‐1930s**

Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, EarlyView.
In the early twentieth century, agricultural research played an important role in the Zionist movement's efforts to increase Palestine's productivity and to facilitate large‐scale Jewish settlement. Recent historiography has started to recognize the importance of agronomists and botanists as central actors in the broader project of Jewish‐Zionist ...
Mona Bieling
wiley   +1 more source

Strategies for Greater Inclusion of Indigenous Students in College Science Programs

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The substantial underrepresentation of American Indian, Alaskan Native, and Native Hawaiʻian (AI/AN/NH) students in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) majors at United States colleges and universities results from systemic barriers in higher education.
Jonathan D. Baker, Nievita Bueno Watts, Devon S. Isaacs, Matthew D. Johnson, DenYelle B. Kenyon, Racheal Killgore, Catherine Peltier, Jesse L. Peltier, Sasheen Shailee C. Raymond, Alan H. Savitzky, Hugh E. Smeltekop, Amy E. Sprowles, Melissa Tehee, Jennifer Yazzie, Mary Jo Ondrechen   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

The current status of human-elephant conflict in Kenya

Pachyderm, 1995
Summarises the present human-elephant conflict situation in Kenya. The estimated population of 24,000 animals is much less that two decades earlier, but the interactions with the expanding human population, particularly that which is agriculturally based have far greater economic and social ramifications.
openaire   +2 more sources

How wildlife respond to tropical cyclones: short‐term tactics and long‐term impacts

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT From butterflies to lizards and from sharks to seabirds, wildlife exhibit tactics to survive the impacts of tropical cyclones, also known as hurricanes, cyclones, or typhoons depending on where they occur. Some species seek refuge during the storm by moving, some remain in place and ride it out, and others move longer distances, avoiding the ...
Erin L. Koen, Mohamed Khalil Meliane, Zachery B. Holmes, Karl E. Miller, William J. Barichivich, Emilie Dedeban, Alex Furst, Miranda Imeri, Peyton E. Niebanck, Samantha Nunn, Kailee Pearson, Nicole Rita, Brier Ryver, Dakotah Shaffer, Susan C. Walls, E. Hance Ellington   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source