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A supervised model to identify wolf behavior from tri-axial acceleration

open access: yesAnimal Biotelemetry
Background In wildlife studies, animal behavior serves as a key indicator of the impact of environmental changes and anthropogenic disturbances. However, wild animals are elusive and traditional GPS studies only provide limited insight into their daily ...
Charlotte Lorand   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Promoting wildlife health or fighting wildlife disease: Insights from History, Philosophy, and Science

open access: yesWildlife Society Bulletin, 2012
Although healthy wildlife populations are often a goal of wildlife management, ambiguity over the meaning of the term health may limit its effectiveness in guiding management objectives. Health is a complex concept with empirical and normative qualities;
Shauna L. Hanisch   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Conservation Easements as Tools to Achieve Regulatory Environmental Goals [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Wayburn talks about conservation easements as tools to achieve regulatory environmental goals. The traditional approach to protecting public-trust resources, such as wildlife found on private lands, is predominantly regulatory and proscriptive ...
Wayburn, Laurie A.
core   +1 more source

Parental involvement and engagement during COVID‐19 lockdowns: School staff and parents' reflections about children's learning at home

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Valuing parental engagement, as part of home–school collaboration, can benefit children's learning. This article focuses on parents and school‐based staff's (N = 120) experiences of children's learning occurring at home during the COVID‐19 lockdowns (2020–2021), both school‐mandated and other learning activities.
Ashley Brett   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Abundance of badgers (Meles meles) in England and Wales

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2017
The European badger (Meles meles) is of considerable interest in the UK as it is both a protected species and the main wildlife reservoir for bovine tuberculosis infection in cattle. While there have been three national badger surveys in the 1980s, 1990s
Johanna Judge   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Understanding and Finding Solutions to the Problem of Sedimentation in the National Wildlife Refuge System [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The National Wildlife Refuge System (Refuge System) is a collection of public lands maintained by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for migratory birds and other wildlife.
Eash, Josh D.   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Respect for Grizzly Bears: An Aboriginal Approach for Co-existence and Resilience [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Aboriginal peoples’ respect for grizzly bear (Ursus arctos) is widely acknowledged, but rarely explored, in wildlife management discourse in northern Canada.
Clarke, Douglas A., Slocombe, D. Scott
core   +3 more sources

Wildlife crimes and the demographic characteristics of offenders in western Serengeti, Tanzania: A review of court cases 2012–2022

open access: yesGlobal Ecology and Conservation
Wildlife crimes are significant global threat to conservation, reducing wildlife populations and threatening some species to extinction. In Tanzania, substantial efforts have been made by conservation law authorities and the government to combat these ...
Juma J. Kegamba, Adolph A. Siga
doaj   +1 more source

Potential Economic Effects of Post-CRP Land Management in Southwest North Dakota [PDF]

open access: yes
The uncertain future of the Conservation Reserve Program has created substantial interest for agricultural producers, rural businesses, community leaders, sportsmen, and wildlife organizations.
Bangsund, Dean A.   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Indicators of ecological change: an inter-site comparison of a concurrent monitoring of wildlife occurrence and hunting activity in central Africa [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Choosing and adapting wildlife management options ideally requires appropriate and affordable information on trends in animal populations and offtakes over several years. In African tropical forests, most studies have been documenting separately wildlife
Billand, Alain   +6 more
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