An Assessment of Local People’s Support to Private Wildlife Conservation: A Case of Save Valley Conservancy and Fringe Communities, Zimbabwe by Given Matseketsa, Billy B. Mukamuri, Never Muboko, Edson Gandiwa

“…We conclude that the studied local community’s support for private nature conservation is marginal; hence, there is a need for increased efforts by SVC owners to devise realistic incentives including an active engagement of local communities so that they cooperate with conservation efforts.…”
Get full text

La difficile gestion globale de l’eau en Camargue (France) : le Contrat de delta by Alain Dervieux

“…Being the main reason for the introduction of important volumes of fresh water from the River Rhone into the Camargue during the dry season, a ressource, which in turn, is made available for other human activities: nature conservation, tourism, breeding, hunting and fishing. …”
Get full text

Development of eDNA methods for monitoring two stygobiotic species of the Dinaric Karst, Proteus anguinus and Congeria jalzici, using digital PCR by Špela Gorički, Primož Presetnik, Uršula Prosenc-Zmrzljak, Tajda Gredar, Matej Blatnik, Blaž Kogovšek, Oliver Koit, Cyril Mayaud, Sara Strah, Branko Jalžić, Gregor Aljančič, Dejan Štebih, Andrej Hudoklin, Rok Košir

Get full text

Feedback on Escape Behavior of Birds Under Different Hunger Pressure by Xiao‐Yang Bao, Jia‐Jia Xin, Yuan‐Xing Ye, Can‐Shi Hu

Get full text

An Examination of the Leadership and Management Traits and Style in the Forest Fire Incident Command System: The Cyprus Forest Fire Service by Nicolas-George Homer Eliades, Achilleas Karayiannis, Georgios Tsantopoulos, Spyros Galatsidas

Get full text

Short-term warming supports mineral-associated carbon accrual in abandoned croplands by Zhenrui Zhang, Hui Gao, Xiaoxia Gao, Shurui Huang, Shuli Niu, Emanuele Lugato, Xinghui Xia

Get full text

Changes in structural composition of field margins and related landscape homogenization following EU accession of Poland by Andrzej Wuczyński, Krzysztof Kujawa, Remigiusz Pielech, Wojciech Grzesiak, Paweł Jarzembowski, Sylwia Wierzcholska, Zygmunt Dajdok

Get full text

Improvement of Air Quality during the COVID-19 Lockdowns in the Republic of Slovenia and its Connection with Meteorology by Maja Ivanovski, Petra Dolšak Lavrič, Rudi Vončina, Darko Goričanec, Danijela Urbancl

Get full text

Conflicts between indigenous and scientific concepts of landscape management for wildlife conservation: human-chimpanzee politics of coexistence at Bossou, Guinea by Gen Yamakoshi, Vincent Leblan

“…Even after African countries became independent, top-down operation of these reserves continued primarily due to international calls for nature conservation and to consumerist demand from western countries. …”
Get full text

Regulacje służące ochronie genius loci jako spoiwa łączącego dziedzictwo materialne i niematerialne by Lena Gryz

“…In both international and Polish law, numerous acts and documents can be leveraged for protecting genius loci, notably: Quebec Declaration on the Preservation of the Spirit of Place, Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, the Nature Conservation Act and the Spatial Planning and Development Act. …”
Get full text

Towards an Understanding of Conservation-Based Costs, Benefits, and Attitudes of Local People Living Adjacent to Save Valley Conservancy, Zimbabwe by Given Matseketsa, Gladman Chibememe, Never Muboko, Edson Gandiwa, Kudakwashe Takarinda

“…It is recommended that a more socially and economically inclusive management approach based on a stakeholder-driven access and benefit sharing (ABS) framework be instituted to promote a more positive form of reciprocity towards SVC and nature conservation.…”
Get full text

Biodiversity Change in Cultural Landscapes—The Rural Hotspot Hypothesis by Carsten Neumann, Robert Behling, Gabriele Weiss

“…In old cultural landscapes of Central and East European (CEE) countries, a vast species decline has been reported for various taxa although intensive land cultivation has been reduced in favor of agroecological transformation, nature conservation and sustainable land management in the past 30 years. …”
Get full text

The problem of conservation of gene pools of domesticated animals by Yu. A. Stolpovskiy, I. A. Zakharov-Gezekhus

“…Using various DNA markers, methods of genomic and genetic breeding in nature conservation and genetic selection of domesticated species provides an opportunity to obtain data on the genetic potential (value, originality) of the breed, which is important for scientific justification of its preservation.…”
Get full text

Brown and red shades in the riverbed of the Nera River (Serbia) – update on the distribution and ecology of the association Hildenbrandio rivularis–Heribaudielletum fluviatilis Fri... by Trbojević Ivana, Milovanović Vanja, Sekulić Jasmina Šinžar, Sekulić Nenad, Krizmanić Jelena, Simić Gordana Subakov

Get full text

Antibacterial Activity of Defatted and Nondefatted Methanolic Extracts of Aframomum melegueta K. Schum. against Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria of Clinical Importance by Olufunmiso Olusola Olajuyigbe, Otunola Adedayo, Roger Murugas Coopoosamy

Get full text

Morphological and Molecular Identification of Obligatory Myiasis-Causing Species in Wild Cervids in Croatia by Ema Gagović, Daria Jurković Žilić, Krunoslav Pintur, Adnan Hodžić, Šimun Naletilić, Relja Beck

Get full text

Analysis and evaluation of germplasm difference of Xanthoceras sorbifolium Bunge in different producing areas in Shandong and Liaoning by LI Shengxin, ZHANG Ziyan, QI Hongtao, GUAN Wenbin, LI Shouke, SUN Jie

Get full text

Assessing Macrophyte and Ecosystem Service Changes in Shallow Eutrophic Coastal Waters Using Remote Sensing Methods by Johanna Schumacher, David Horn, Gabriela Escobar-Sánchez, Greta Markfort, Gerald Schernewski, Mario von Weber

Get full text

Assembly-free reads accurate identification (AFRAID) approach outperforms other methods of DNA barcoding in the walnut family (Juglandaceae) by Yanlei Liu, Kai Chen, Lihu Wang, Xinqiang Yu, Chao Xu, Zhili Suo, Shiliang Zhou, Shuo Shi, Wenpan Dong

Get full text

Adapting to change: exploring the distribution dynamics of the alien and potentially invasive aphid species Cinara curvipes (Hemiptera: Aphididae) in the context of global warming by K. Wieczorek, A. Bugaj-Nawrocka, B. Borowiak-Sobkowiak, A. Endrestøl, H. P. Ravn, W. Solarz, R. Durak

Get full text