Download or read book Effectiveness of Marine Protected Areas for Top Predators Along the Central West African and US West Coasts written by Sara M. Maxwell and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Protected area management training in West and Central Africa written by and published by IUCN. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building capacities in protected area management is a priority for the development and conservation of parks and reserves in West Africa, since a wide range of knowledge and skills is required to manage protected areas, and since the training provided by most water and forestry departments does not include specific modules on protected areas. It is with this in mind that IUCN offers short- and long-term courses aimed at providing the various stakeholders in the field with the tools and technical and scientific skills required to improve the way they manage their parks. The objectives of this study are to evaluate the effects of the training, analyse perceptions of past students, and recommend measures for improving the courses.
Download or read book The Benefits of Marine Protected Areas written by Australian Government - Department of the Environment and Heritage - Environment Australia and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Valuing Net Benefits of Biodiversity Conservation in West African Marine Protected Areas written by Thomas Binet and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Marine Transboundary Conservation and Protected Areas written by Peter Mackelworth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-28 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The marine environment does not naturally respect arbitrary international boundaries. The establishment and management of transboundary marine protected areas therefore presents major governance challenges. This book analyses a series of marine transboundary conservation initiatives embedded in varying contextual situations to examine the underlying reasons for their success or failure. Utilising an adapted ‘pathways of influence’ framework, it provides insights into the development of marine transboundary conservation initiatives looking at the effectiveness of international rules, international norms and discourse, market forces and direct access to policy making. Examples come from a wide range of jurisdictions, including territorial seas, continental shelves, exclusive economic zones and areas beyond national jurisdiction. Case studies include initiatives in the Coral Triangle, West Africa, Central America, the Wadden Sea, the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. In addition the authors assess the potential for developing wider international cooperation as a result of relationships forged though involvement within these marine transboundary conservation initiatives.
Download or read book Governance of Marine Protected Areas in the Least developed Countries written by Jean-Yves Weigel and published by Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). This book was released on 2011 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: arrangements, and the syncretism of the legal system.
Download or read book Fully protected Marine Reserves written by Callum M. Roberts and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Marine Protected Areas and Ocean Conservation written by Tundi S. Agardy and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 1997-03-20 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reviews the need for marine conservation, summarizes general measures for ocean and coastal conservation, and explains the rationale for establishing marine protected areas. The second half of the book is essentially a guideline for designing and implementing protected areas in order to make them viable and long-lasting in their effectiveness.
Download or read book Guidelines for Marine Protected Areas written by IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas and published by World Conservation Union. This book was released on 1999 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world urgently needs a comprehensive system of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) to conserve biodiversity and to help rebuild the productivity of the oceans. The aim of these Guidelines is to help countries establish systems of MPAs as a key component of integrated management of coastal and marine areas and as part of their sustainable development. The various actions to make an effective MPA are set out, from early planning stages to implementation.
Download or read book A Global Representative System of Marine Protected Areas Wider Caribbean West Africa and South Atlantic written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Discovering the coastal and marine environment in West Africa knowledge handbook written by and published by IUCN. This book was released on with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Framework for Future Training in Marine and Coastal Protected Area Management written by and published by WorldFish. This book was released on 1998 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wildlife Monitoring and Conservation in a West African Protected Area written by Andrew Cole Burton and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global declines in biological diversity are increasingly well documented and threaten the welfare and resilience of ecological and human communities. Despite international commitments to better assess and protect biodiversity, current monitoring effort is insufficient and conservation targets are not being met (e.g., Convention on Biological Diversity 2010 Target). Protected areas are a cornerstone of attempts to shield wildlife from anthropogenic impact, yet their effectiveness is uncertain. In this dissertation, I investigated the monitoring and conservation of wildlife (specifically carnivores and other larger mammals) within the context of a poorly studied savanna reserve in a tropical developing region: Mole National Park (MNP) in the West African nation of Ghana. I first evaluated the efficacy of the park's long-term, patrol-based wildlife monitoring system through comparison with a camera-trap survey and an assessment of sampling error. I found that park patrol observations underrepresented MNP's mammal community, recording only two-thirds as many species as camera traps over a common sampling period. Agreement between methods was reasonable for larger, diurnal and social species (such as many larger ungulates and primates), but camera traps were more effective at detecting smaller, solitary and nocturnal species (particularly carnivores). Long-term patrol data were also subject to considerable sampling variation that could make interpretation of wildlife trends unreliable, and I suggest ways in which this locally based monitoring program may be improved. Given the ecological and cultural importance of carnivore species, their propensity for human conflict, and the difficulty with which they are monitored, I assessed their status and vulnerability to extinction in MNP. Only 9 of 16 historically occurring carnivore species were detected in the camera-trap survey (covering 253 stations deployed for 5,469 trap days between October 2006 and January 2009). A hierarchical multi-species occupancy model applied to camera-trap data indicated a low overall likelihood of the presence of undetected species. Results from concurrent sign, call-in, and village surveys, as well as patrol records, provided more equivocal evidence of carnivore occurrence but supported the conclusion that many carnivores have declined and are likely functionally or fully extirpated from the park, including the top predator, lion (Panthera leo). Evidence of local human-carnivore conflict was also documented, including hunting of carnivores for traditional use and in retaliation for livestock depredation. Contrary to expectation, variation in carnivore persistence was not explained by ecological or life-history traits such as body size, home range size or fecundity, thus raising doubt as to the predictability of carnivore community disassembly. I extended the multi-species occupancy model to test hypotheses about extrinsic influences on carnivore community dynamics in MNP. I derived spatially explicit GIS descriptors of heterogeneity in illegal hunting pressure, law enforcement patrol effort, prey biomass, and habitat productivity, and used a Bayesian modeling framework to assess support for their effects on carnivore occurrence. The framework explicitly accounted for spatial autocorrelation and variation in species- and site-specific detection probabilities. Contrary to my expectation, there was no indication of a consistent, negative effect of illegal hunting activity on spatial patterns of carnivore occurrence. By contrast, occurrence patterns of most species were positively associated with prey biomass, and several species had either positive or negative associations with riverine forest (but not with other indicators of habitat heterogeneity). I conclude that pressure from hunting and other anthropogenic impacts remains high for West African wildlife, even within protected areas, but that human-wildlife relations are complex and their consequences inadequately predicted by simple models of extinction risk. Existing monitoring programs may generate data unsuitable for strong inference on wildlife community dynamics, and careful attention to objectives and methodology is needed. More attention to the protection and recovery of carnivore populations is also needed, as are further focused and interdisciplinary efforts to inform and improve wildlife conservation in West Africa.
Download or read book Marine protected areas written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources. Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, Wildlife, and Oceans and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guidelines for Establishing Marine Protected Areas written by Graeme Kelleher and published by IUCN. This book was released on 1992 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Assessment of Management Effectiveness in Selected Marine Protected Areas in the Western Indian Ocean written by Sue Wells and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Evaluating the Effectiveness of Marine Protected Areas for Reef Fish Species in the US Southeast Atlantic written by Christopher Harold Pickens and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marine protected areas (MPAs) have been recommended as an essential conservation tool, with MPA coverage increasing four-fold globally since 2000. Despite the increased popularity of MPAs, many MPAs have been deemed ineffective, warranting further evaluation of MPA effectiveness. In 2009, the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council established eight deep-water MPAs off the Southeast United States' (SEUS) Atlantic coast with the goal of protecting long-lived deep-water reef-associated fishery species. After nearly a decade of protection, I evaluated three of SEUS MPAs with nearby unprotected comparison areas using two data series (video and trap catch data) collected as part of fishery-independent surveys. From video data collected from 2011 to 2017, I observed no positive trend in density, species richness, or community composition of reef fish species inside the MPA. I did observe an increase in evenness of rare reef fish species in the MPAs relative to unprotected areas, but this was attributed to a decrease in managed reef fish species abundance rather than an increase in rare, previously heavily-exploited reef fish. From trap data collected from 2000 to 2018, I observed a modest positive shift in reef fish size distribution in two of the MPAs and age distribution in one of the MPAs; however, there was either no change or a significant decrease in managed reef fish abundance and biomass in each MPA relative to outside. Overall, I believe the SEUS MPAs have not (yet) been effective at protecting managed reef fish species. Given these MPAs have low enforcement and sampling was conducted on the continental shelf portion of the MPAs, future assessment should examine compliance within the SEUS MPAs and sample deeper areas to determine if lack of success is due to illegal fishing, species examined, or MPA design before making a final determination if deep-water MPAs are an effective strategy for fisheries managers in the SEUS.
