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Threat status of birds of Yamuna Nagar District, Haryana, India
Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2015 Birds were surveyed in the Yamuna Nagar District, Haryana, India and the threat categories of the species observed were determined with the IUCN Red List. A total of 185 species belonging to 46 families were observed. Families Accipitridae, Passeridae,
Rajiv S. Kalsi +2 more
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Wildbook: Crowdsourcing, computer vision, and data science for conservation [PDF]
arXiv, 2017 Photographs, taken by field scientists, tourists, automated cameras, and incidental photographers, are the most abundant source of data on wildlife today. Wildbook is an autonomous computational system that starts from massive collections of images and, by detecting various species of animals and identifying individuals, combined with sophisticated ...
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Protecting threatened species and music traditions
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, EarlyView.Musical instruments are indispensable to music traditions worldwide and often made from natural materials derived from species that are increasingly endangered. International trade threatens the survival of some of these species, as addressed by their inclusion in the UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora ...
Silke Lichtenberg +15 more
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Analyzing National Red List data of East Asia
Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity, 2023 The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List aims to assess global species distribution rather than specific regional or national distribution units.
Ae-Ra Moon +3 more
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The Steppe Eagle Global Conservation Status Was Raised
Пернатые хищники и их охрана, 2015 An announcement which gives the current status of the steppe eagle in European Red List and IUCN Red List and reviews its status change in Russia and Kazakhstan.
Igor V. Karyakin
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Extinction risk and conservation of the world's sharks and rays [PDF]
arXiv, 2013 The rapid expansion of human activities threatens ocean-wide biodiversity loss. Numerous marine animal populations have declined, yet it remains unclear whether these trends are symptomatic of a chronic accumulation of global marine extinction risk.
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Adapting the IUCN Red List criteria for invertebrates [PDF]
Biological Conservation, 2011 The IUCN Red List is the most useful list of species that are at risk for extinction worldwide, as it relies on a number of objective criteria. Nevertheless, there is a taxonomic bias that excludes species with small body sizes, narrow distribution ranges and low dispersal abilities, which constitute the vast majority of the planet’s biota ...
M. A. Ferrández +6 more
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Integrative Conservation, EarlyView.Upper left: Cyrtodactylus myintkyawthurai, upper right: Hemiphyllodactylus montawaensis, and bottom left: Gyiophis salweenensis, just recently described, microendemic taxa not yet covered by any protective measures. Bottom right: Geochelone platynota offspring from Cologne Zoo, an example for successful ex situ keeping and conservation breeding of ...
Carolin Scholten +7 more
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The Impact of Downgrading Protected Areas (PAD) on Biodiversity [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 We quantitatively assess the impacts of Downgrading Protected Areas (PAD) on biodiversity in the U.S.. Results show that PAD events significantly reduce biodiversity. The proximity to PAD events decreases the biodiversity by 26.0% within 50 km compared with records of species further away from the PAD events.
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Integrative Conservation, EarlyView.Plant order‐level Sankey plot illustrating plant use of ethnolinguistic groups for key disease types based on organ systems and use. Each node represents the strength of its interaction or usage. ABSTRACT Many human populations rely on natural remedies for health and healing, with traditional medicinal plants playing a vital role in diverse ...
Krizler C. Tanalgo +15 more
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