Wildlife conservation in Tanzania is fraught with conflicts between the state, international organizations, private investors, and local communities over the rights to rangeland resources and the benefit streams associated with safari tourism.
Wildlife conservation in Tanzania is fraught with conflicts between the state, international organizations, private investors, and local communities over the rights to rangeland resources and the benefit streams associated with safari tourism.
For a relatively ephemeral feature of the landscape of those English uplands made of porous chalk and limestone, the artificial watering sites for livestock known as dew ponds have been the subject of a great deal of legend, misinformation, experimentation, and scientific research.
Cattle are currently the most important domesticated mammals, with populations numbering in the hundreds of millions and occupying large tracts of land, while the conservation of large mammalian carnivores is becoming a dominant discourse in modern geopolitics, also claiming large portions of the Earth's land surface.
Cattle are currently the most important domesticated mammals, with populations numbering in the hundreds of millions and occupying large tracts of land, while the conservation of large mammalian carnivores is becoming a dominant discourse in modern geopolitics, also claiming large portions of the Earth's land surface.
Legume Bioengineering: Balancing Food Demand and Global Climate Change offers a comprehensive guide to enhancing legume productivity and resilience in the face of global food insecurity and climate change.
This book provides a comprehensive exploration of coral reefs—among Earth's most diverse yet vulnerable ecosystems—in the context of global climate change and local human pressures.
This book provides a comprehensive exploration of coral reefs—among Earth's most diverse yet vulnerable ecosystems—in the context of global climate change and local human pressures.
The Florida Everglades is a treasured ecosystem, but the water quality, quantity, flow, and distribution have been dramatically degraded by drainage and infrastructure development during the past century.
Legume Bioengineering: Balancing Food Demand and Global Climate Change offers a comprehensive guide to enhancing legume productivity and resilience in the face of global food insecurity and climate change.
Bellamente ilustrada, documentada con fotografias de situaciones reales obtenidas en el campo, y con detallada informacion de historia natural, distribucion geografica y descripciones de huellas, excrementos y otros rastros de 60 especies de mamiferos colombianos, esta guia pretende resaltar la importancia del rastreo para detectar la presencia de los mamiferos en Colombia como apreciacion no invasiva de la biodiversidad.
Por su ubicacion geografica, Antioquia, en particular, las subregiones del nordeste y Magdalena Medio, presentan una gran cantidad de especies teniendo influencia de la fauna centroamericana y del norte de suramerica, asi como de la fauna de las montanas y las llanuras del rio Magdalena.
The Red Hills region of south Georgia and north Florida contains one of the most biologically diverse ecosystems in North America, with longleaf pine trees that are up to four hundred years old and an understory of unparalleled plant life.
Greenwood Plantation in the Red Hills region of southwest Georgia includes a rare one-thousand-acre stand of old-growth longleaf pine woodlands, a remnant of an ecosystem that once covered close to ninety million acres across the Southeast.
This book explores Greenpeace's efforts to expand its engagement in the Circumpolar North in the 21st century and how this work is affected and informed by the organization's controversial legacy of anti-sealing campaigning in the 1970s and 1980s.
Toda civilización humana requiere de la dotación de agua en condiciones aptas de consumo y para labores diarias como la preparación de alimentos y la higiene personal.
This book explores Greenpeace's efforts to expand its engagement in the Circumpolar North in the 21st century and how this work is affected and informed by the organization's controversial legacy of anti-sealing campaigning in the 1970s and 1980s.
Thwarting Green Growth: Perspectives on Barriers to Pro-environmental Behaviors critically examines the often-overlooked obstacles that hinder sustainable consumer actions.
The World of the Salt Marsh is a wide-ranging exploration of the southeastern coast-its natural history, its people and their way of life, and the historic and ongoing threats to its ecological survival.
Thwarting Green Growth: Perspectives on Barriers to Pro-environmental Behaviors critically examines the often-overlooked obstacles that hinder sustainable consumer actions.
The variety of theoretical themes and practical components contributing to modern insect conservation continues to diversify, together with realisation that insects affect many aspects of human wellbeing.
This comprehensive and lavishly illustrated book summarizes all known information on the Goitered Gazelle (Gazella subgutturosa), one of the world's most endangered antelopes.
This comprehensive and lavishly illustrated book summarizes all known information on the Goitered Gazelle (Gazella subgutturosa), one of the world's most endangered antelopes.
The captive breeding and reintroduction of highly threatened species are among the most challenging conservation interventions and often represent the final tool in a comparatively small toolbox to conserve rapidly declining species.
The captive breeding and reintroduction of highly threatened species are among the most challenging conservation interventions and often represent the final tool in a comparatively small toolbox to conserve rapidly declining species.
