National illegal wildlife trafficking of threatened species: a descriptive study in Manabí (Ecuador)

Illegal wildlife trafficking has negative effects on biodiversity conservation at both global and local scale. Therefore, the establishment of appropriate conservation measures requires local studies that quantify this problem. The objective of this work was to quantify and characterize the species of birds and mammals seized in the period 2016-2017, at the Valle Alto Wildlife Rescue Centre and Wildlife Refuge. The study showed that 212 specimens belonging to 41 different species were confiscated. More birds than mammals were confiscated, and a greater proportion of birds were included in a national and international threat category. A clear preference for primates, parrots and squirrels was found. Furthermore, the presence of species with a distribution range outside the study area revealed the existence of the transportation of species from other parts of the country. Although these data are only a sample of what is actually trafficked in the country, they provide an approach of the type of species that are illegally trafficked in this biodiversity hotspot.

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Large and medium-sized mammals of Nova Baden State Park, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Check List ◽

10.15560/13.3.2141 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 13 (3) ◽

pp. 2141 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Clarissa Alves da Rosa ◽

Agnis Cristiane Souza

Keyword(s):

Biodiversity Conservation ◽

Threatened Species ◽

Local Community ◽

Grey Literature ◽

Camera Trap ◽

Biodiversity Hotspot ◽

Domestic Dogs ◽

Brazilian Atlantic Forest ◽

Mammal Species ◽

Political Management

Nova Baden State Park (NBSP) is located in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest which is a biodiversity hotspot and priority for conservation. Our aim is to provide a list of large and medium-sized mammal species recorded in NBSP. We made a camera trap survey and opportunistic observations from December 2014 to September 2015, and searched the grey literature. We recorded 12 large and medium-sized mammals in our survey and 11 more species listed in grey literature. The 23 species registered for NBSP belong to eight orders (Carnivora, Primates, Rodents, Cingulata, Pilosa, Didephimorphia, Lagomorpha and Artiodactyla), including threatened species at local, national and global levels. With an important mammal biodiversity, we concluded that avoidance of poaching and the control of domestic dogs need to be priorities for biodiversity conservation of NBSP, with a political management that includes the local community in Park activities.

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How emissions from cruise ships in the port of Naples changed in the COVID-19 lock down period

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part M Journal of Engineering for the Maritime Environment ◽

10.1177/14750902211028421 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 147509022110284

Author(s):

Luigia Mocerino ◽

Franco Quaranta

Keyword(s):

Local Scale ◽

The Other ◽

Cruise Ships ◽

Global Pandemic ◽

Transportation Sector ◽

Reduction Of Emissions ◽

The One ◽

Global And Local

The scope of this work is to try to quantify the reduction of emissions due to COVID-19; an analysis covering the entire port of Naples will be presented. The explosion of the global pandemic from SARS-CoV-2 led to the adoption of local and global countermeasures aimed at containing contagions. The transportation sector, and in particular the passenger moving sector, was deeply affected; this almost total block of movements between regions and countries if, on the one hand, seriously slowed the economy, on the other, it drastically reduced the emissions on a global and local scale. In this work, the case study of the cruise ships berthed at the Maritime Station (Stazione Marittima) in the port of Naples is examined. The traffic of cruise ships during the lockdown and in the immediately following months was analysed and compared first with respect to the calendars scheduled for the same period and then with respect to the same months of 2019. The reduction in number of cruise ships and passengers were analysed and compared to the previous trends. The vessels collected, for 2019 and 2020 (both those that arrived and those that suffered the effects of the movement block) were subsequently characterized in terms of power and speed. Finally, an estimate of the emissions of NOX, SOX, CO2 produced and saved was carried out. The 2020 results will be compared with the hypothetical emissions that would have occurred in the absence of the lockdown and with those of the same period of the previous year.

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Identifying corridors for landscape connectivity using species distribution modeling of Hydnocarpus kurzii (King) Warb., a threatened species of the Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot

Landscape and Ecological Engineering ◽

10.1007/s11355-018-0353-2 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 15 (1) ◽

pp. 13-23

Author(s):

Koushik Majumdar ◽

Dibyendu Adhikari ◽

Badal Kumar Datta ◽

Saroj Kanta Barik

Keyword(s):

Species Distribution ◽

Threatened Species ◽

Landscape Connectivity ◽

Species Distribution Modeling ◽

Biodiversity Hotspot ◽

Distribution Modeling

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Comparison of the behavior of the precipitation concentration index on global and local scale

Theoretical and Applied Climatology ◽

10.1007/s00704-019-02996-5 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 139 (1-2) ◽

pp. 631-638 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Gerardo Núñez-González

Keyword(s):

Concentration Index ◽

Local Scale ◽

Precipitation Concentration Index ◽

Precipitation Concentration ◽

Global And Local

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Global‐ and Local‐Scale High‐Resolution Event Catalogs for Algorithm Testing

Seismological Research Letters ◽

10.1785/0220180345 ◽

2019 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Lisa Linville ◽

Ronald Chip Brogan ◽

Christopher Young ◽

Katherine Anderson Aur

Keyword(s):

Global Scale ◽

Local Scale ◽

Algorithm Performance ◽

Directional Information ◽

Event Sequences ◽

University Of Utah ◽

International Monitoring ◽

Using Data ◽

The University ◽

Global And Local

ABSTRACT During the development of new seismic data processing methods, the verification of potential events and associated signals can present a nontrivial obstacle to the assessment of algorithm performance, especially as detection thresholds are lowered, resulting in the inclusion of significantly more anthropogenic signals. Here, we present two 14 day seismic event catalogs, a local‐scale catalog developed using data from the University of Utah Seismograph Stations network, and a global‐scale catalog developed using data from the International Monitoring System. Each catalog was built manually to comprehensively identify events from all sources that were locatable using phase arrival timing and directional information from seismic network stations, resulting in significant increases compared to existing catalogs. The new catalogs additionally contain challenging event sequences (prolific aftershocks and small events at the detection and location threshold) and novel event types and sources (e.g., infrasound only events and long‐wall mining events) that make them useful for algorithm testing and development, as well as valuable for the unique tectonic and anthropogenic event sequences they contain.

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Network Culture and Social Media at Global and Local Scale

Journal of Media Critiques ◽

10.17349/jmc114201 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 19-36

Author(s):

Şafak Erkayhan

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Local Scale ◽

Network Culture ◽

Global And Local

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NEW RECORDS IN THE FLORA CHECKLISTS OF LAOS, RESULTING FROM A SURVEY OF PHOU HIN POUN NATIONAL BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION AREA

Edinburgh Journal of Botany ◽

10.1017/s096042861700035x ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 75 (1) ◽

pp. 91-106 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

J. Prosperi ◽

V. Lamxay ◽

F. Hallé ◽

J.-M. Bompard ◽

P. Blanc ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Biodiversity Conservation ◽

New Records ◽

Biodiversity Hotspot ◽

Species Number ◽

Conservation Area ◽

Floristic Inventory

The flora of Laos remains one of the least known within the Indo-Burma biodiversity hotspot. A floristic inventory was carried out in Phou Hin Poun National Biodiversity Conservation Area, an under-explored area of the Khammouane Limestone. This study provides a list of 27 taxa that are additions to the most recent country checklists. The Ebenaceae, Euphorbiaceae and Myrtaceae are the families with the highest species number. In this list, four species are endemic to Indochina (Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam): Cynometra dongnaiensis Pierre, Jasminum vidalii P.S.Green, Memecylon chevalieri Guillaumin and Pothos gigantipes Buchet ex P.C.Boyce. These results illustrate the paucity of our knowledge of the region surveyed and of the flora of Laos in general.

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Transforming Democracy through ICT

Information Communication Technologies ◽

10.4018/978-1-59904-949-6.ch178 ◽

2008 ◽

pp. 2441-2449

Author(s):

Andy Williamson

Keyword(s):

Civil Society ◽

New Technologies ◽

The Philippines ◽

Local Scale ◽

Citizen Engagement ◽

Global And Local ◽

Do So

This article explores the potential of ICT to be used to transform the processes of citizen engagement such that a citizen-centred approach to e-democracy becomes both viable and desirable. It will do so by exploring three tensions relating to democracy and civil society: first that participation in traditional democracy is falling, yet new technologies are mobilising citizens on a global and local scale (such as antiglobalisation protests and electoral protests in the Philippines and Spain); second, ICT increases the technocracy of government but also offers citizens a chance to become closer to it; and third, that macro strategies for ICT access are not enough to remove localised exclusion.

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