Wildlife

Protected landscapes and cultural and spiritual values

This is the second volume in the new series on the Values of Protected Landscapes and Seascapes produced by the Protected Landscapes Task Force of IUCN

Publication Date: 
01/12/2008
Josep-Maria Mallarach
IUCN
Tags:
Wildlife, Protected Area Conservation, National Parks, Biodiversity, Egypt, Morocco, Uganda, Cambodia, Greece, Romania, Spain, Mexico, Australia, Brazil, Ecuador, India
Wildlife

Guidelines for applying protected area management categories

The following guidelines are offered to help in application of
the IUCN protected area management categories, which classify

Publication Date: 
01/12/2008
Nigel Dudley
IUCN
Tags:
Convention On Biological Diversity (CBD), Ecosystems, Forests, Marine Ecosystems, Wildlife, Protected Area Conservation, National Parks, Ramsar Convention
Wildlife

Protected areas, governance, and scale

This paper focuses on only one piece of this complex challenge: the ways in which conservation action has been informed, and should be informed, by the interaction between ecological scale and governance. The published literature does not provide much guidance

Publication Date: 
01/12/2008
Kent H. Redford, Catherine Grippo
Wildlife Conservation Society
Tags:
Ecology, Grasslands, Wildlife, Migratory Species, Protected Area Conservation, Tiger Reserves, Governance, Africa, Asia, South America, National Parks
Wildlife

Park status to sanctuary

Rajahmundry, Nov. 25: The state government issued an order declaring Papikonda Wildlife Sanctuary as a National Park recently. The government issued GO No. 144 declaring the wildlife sanctuary as a national park to be developed in an area covering about 1,012.85 square kilometres.

Publication Date: 
26/11/2008
Deccan Chronicle (Hyderabad)
Tags:
Wildlife, National Parks, Papikonda SA, Andhra Pradesh, East Godavari, Khammam (D), West Godavari
Wildlife

Tiny, long-lost primate rediscovered in indonesia

On a misty mountaintop on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, scientists for the first time in more than eight decades have observed a living pygmy tarsier, one of the planet's smallest and rarest primates.

Publication Date: 
20/11/2008
Planet Ark (Australia)
Tags:
Wildlife, National Parks, Indonesia
Wildlife

Papikonda is a national park

Hyderabad, Nov. 4: The state government issued orders notifying Papikonda wildlife sanctuary as a national park. This became necessary as works were taken up in the sanctuary area for the Polavaram project. The animals in the national park will be shifted.

Publication Date: 
05/11/2008
Deccan Chronicle (Hyderabad)
Tags:
National Parks, Papikonda SA, Andhra Pradesh, East Godavari, Khammam (D), West Godavari
Wildlife

Hornbills and endemic birds: a conservation status survey across the Western Ghats, India

The conservation survey report on hornbills and endemic birds across the Western Ghats. Proposes recommendations to Government of India for reinstating the Malabar pied hornbill, Malabar and Indian grey hornbill in Schedule I of the Wildlife (Protection) Act.

Publication Date: 
01/11/2008
T. R. Shankar Raman, Divya Mudappa
Nature Conservation Foundation
Tags:
Forests, Western Ghats, Habitat, Wildlife, Birds, National Parks, Sanctuaries, Biodiversity Conservation, India, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu
Environment

A roadmap for a living planet

WWF

Publication Date: 
01/11/2008
WWF International
Tags:
Environment, Wildlife, National Parks, Biodiversity, Global, Ecosystems
Climate Change

Severe drought and calf survival in elephants

Climate change in Africa is expected to lead to a higher occurrence of severe droughts in semi-arid and arid ecosystems. Understanding how animal populations react to such events is thus crucial for addressing future challenges for wildlife management and conservation. We explored how gender, age, mother's experience and family group characteristics determined calf survival in an elephant population during a severe drought in Tanzania in 1993. Young males were particularly sensitive to the drought and calf loss was higher among young mothers than among more experienced mothers.

Publication Date: 
23/10/2008
Charles Foley, Nathalie Pettorelli, Lara Foley
Biology Letters
4
541–544
Tags:
Elephant, Droughts, Climate Change, Africa, Ecosystems, National Parks, Wildlife
Wildlife

Papikonda to become national park

Rajahmundry, Oct. 14: The Centre is planning to develop the Papikonda wildlife sanctuary into a national park. The sanctuary is around 591 sq kms area and is spread over in East Godavari, West Godavari and Khammam districts. The forest authorities have recently carried out a survey to identify the thick forest areas adjoining the sanctuary limits and identified nearly 283 sq km.

Publication Date: 
15/10/2008
Deccan Chronicle (Hyderabad)
Tags:
National Parks, Papikonda SA, Andhra Pradesh, East Godavari, Khammam (D), West Godavari

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