The Wildlife Management System of Schleswig-Holstein. A GIS - Based Tool to Monitor Game and Endangered Species

Author(s):  
Peter Fischer
Author(s):  
Paul A. Rees

Abstract This chapter contains questions about wildlife management and conservation, endangered species, nature reserve design and the role of zoos in conservation. The questions are arranged by topic and divided into three levels: foundation, intermediate and advanced.


2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Conor P. McGowan ◽  
Mark R. Ryan

Abstract Population models can be useful tools for evaluating management strategies and risks for a given species. A major, but often overlooked, component of endangered or threatened species management and recovery is the incidental take allowance of many endangered species laws. In the United States population models are seldom applied to address specific incidental take scenarios. We believe it is prudent for wildlife management agencies like the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to embrace explicit predictive tools to assess the possible effects of incidental take actions and to set standards for what constitutes unacceptable levels of incidental take in terms of predicted effect on population viability, recovery, and extinction. We briefly give recommendations for incorporating simulation models into jeopardy evaluations in ways that would dovetail with legislative language and provide a simple example model. Using explicit predictive models to support jeopardy determinations and incidental take decision-making would lead to transparent decisions rooted in measurable quantities such as changes in extinction probability or abundance projections.


Oryx ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malcolm Coe

The author, who has studied and advised on wildlife management and park problems in Africa, describes some of the differences he noted in India. He looks at the effects of management in Kanha National Park, where the bans on stock grazing and tree felling and the removal of villages have benefited two endangered species—tiger and barasingha—and shows the need for more study and understanding of the large herbivores in order to manage the park successfully.


2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 220-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael C. Runge

Abstract Management of threatened and endangered species would seem to be a perfect context for adaptive management. Many of the decisions are recurrent and plagued by uncertainty, exactly the conditions that warrant an adaptive approach. But although the potential of adaptive management in these settings has been extolled, there are limited applications in practice. The impediments to practical implementation are manifold and include semantic confusion, institutional inertia, misperceptions about the suitability and utility, and a lack of guiding examples. In this special section of the Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management, we hope to reinvigorate the appropriate application of adaptive management for threatened and endangered species by framing such management in a decision-analytical context, clarifying misperceptions, classifying the types of decisions that might be amenable to an adaptive approach, and providing three fully developed case studies. In this overview paper, I define terms, review the past application of adaptive management, challenge perceived hurdles, and set the stage for the case studies which follow.


1985 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 150-151
Author(s):  
Wilf Wingenroth

Twenty years of committed backwoods-life as trapper, fisherman and guide in northwestern Ontario's wilderness provided me with experience which eventually led me to criticize man's activities in that environment. Recent logging and roadbuilding are causing severe disruption of trapping. On the other hand, their proximity to my home gives me an ideal "outdoor laboratory" for private study. While I am critical of logging, I also criticize myself as a trapper and trapping in general, and explore the reasons. In particular I challenge concepts of today's resource management such as: "sustained yield", "harvest" and "renewable resource". These have become part of an ideology, leading in many cases to conditions similar to, or worse than, those of the now condemned era of reckless exploitation.Our present management system may be as faulty as were the previous ones, leading to elimination of trapping as we know it. Keywords: wildlife management, trapping, furbearers, resource management.


2015 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 288-289
Author(s):  
Joseph Aloi ◽  
Jagdeesh Ullal ◽  
Paul Chidester ◽  
Raymie McFarland ◽  
Robby Booth

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 328
Author(s):  
Joseph Aloi ◽  
Jagdeesh Ullal ◽  
Paul Chidester ◽  
Amy Henderson ◽  
Robby Booth ◽  
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