scholarly journals THE PRACTICE OF IMMOBILIZING LARGE WILD CARNIVOROUS ANIMALS IN A NATIONAL PARK

2021 ◽  
Vol 248 (4) ◽  
pp. 229-232
Author(s):  
V.I. Usenko ◽  
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E.A. Zaikina ◽  
B.M. Mbonde ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
General Condition ◽  
National Park ◽  
Nature Reserves ◽  
Wild Animals ◽  
Serengeti National Park ◽  
Respiratory Systems ◽  
Special Studies

In the conditions of the Serengeti National Park (Tanzania), female lions were immobilized in order to conduct clinical, physiological and special studies using xylazine and ketamine, and atypamezol as an antidote. The first signs of immobilization in lionesses after the use of xylazine and ketamine occur in 4.8±0.8 minutes, and the restoration of mobility after the use of the antidote – in 1.5 minutes. Depression of the cardiovascular and respiratory systems in lionesses and disorders of the general condition after the use of the above-mentioned drugs were not noted, which allows us to recommend the use of such a combination of drugs for immobilizing wild animals in national parks, nature reserves and zoos.

scholarly journals Erosion and the Hippos

Oryx ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 303-304
Author(s):  
Paul Leyhausen
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
National Park ◽  
Large Population ◽  
River Valley ◽  
Habitat Destruction ◽  
Nature Reserves ◽  
Joint Meeting ◽  
Population Explosion ◽  
Belgian Congo ◽  
River Banks

In recent years several African national parks have been faced with the ‘hippo problem’ — a large population of hippos accused of causing serious erosion and habitat destruction. Should they be culled? Uganda decided yes, in the Rwenzori National Park (formerly Queen Elizabeth); but the Zaire (formerly Belgian Congo) parks have always been regarded as strict nature reserves and no killing has been allowed. However, at a joint meeting of the Survival Service and the National Parks Commissions, at Kinshasa, last September, the question was raised in regard to the Virunga (formerly Albert) National Park. The commissions were asked to advise the Parks Administration on the possible relationship between the hippopotamus population and the erosion of land adjacent to the Semliki, Rutshuru and Rwindi rivers. It had been suggested that a hippopotamus population explosion in recent years was responsible for overgrazing and damage to the river banks, increasing erosion to such a degree that the whole river valley was threatened with denudation and destruction. Should the hippopotamus population be culled? Dr Paul Leyhausen was among the delegates who were able to visit the Virunga park in the course of the IUCN meetings, and in this note records his observations and conclusions on the problem and incidentally gives some idea of the complications of the situation.

scholarly journals The impact of crop raiding by wild animals in communities surrounding the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (9) ◽  
pp. 637-646 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mwakatobe Angela ◽  
Nyahongo Julius ◽  
Ntalwila Janemary ◽  
Roskaft Eivin
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
Wild Animals ◽  
Serengeti National Park ◽  
Crop Raiding ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals What of the Serengeti?

Oryx ◽  
1956 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 303-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. L. Boyle
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
Lake Victoria ◽  
Nature Reserves ◽  
Serengeti National Park ◽  
Central Plains ◽  
Northern Border ◽  
The World

Near the northern border of Tanganyika lies the Serengeti National Park—an area of 4,480 square miles and one of the most important nature reserves of the world. It may be considered in three parts: the Western Serengeti, a corridor between the Grumeti and Mbalageti rivers which approaches Lake Victoria but does not quite reach it: the Central Plains: the Crater Highlands, including Ngorongoro.

scholarly journals Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) collected from animals in three western, semi-arid nature reserves in South Africa : research communication

2007 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Golezardy ◽  
I.G. Horak
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Tick Species ◽  
National Park ◽  
Arid Regions ◽  
Ixodid Tick ◽  
Nature Reserves ◽  
Wild Animals ◽  
The West ◽  
Hyalomma Truncatum ◽  
Semi Arid

The objective of this study was to make an inventory of the ixodid tick species infesting wild animals in three western, semi-arid nature reserves in South Africa. To this end 22 animals in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, 10 in the West Coast National Park and 16 in the Karoo National Park were examined. Fourteen tick species were recovered, of which Hyalomma truncatum, Rhipicephalus exoph thalmos and Rhipicephalus glabroscutatum were each present in two reserves and the remainder only in one. The distributions of two of the 14 tick species recovered, namely Rhipicephalus capensis and Rhipicephalus neumanni, are virtually confined to the western semi-arid regions of southern Africa. Hyalomma truncatum, R. capensis and R. glabroscutatum were the most numerous of the ticks recovered, and eland, Taurotragus oryx, were the most heavily infested with the former two species and gemsbok, Oryx gazella, and mountain reedbuck, Redunca fulvorufula, with R. glabroscutatum.

scholarly journals The occurrence and conservation status of Ceratogyrus bechuanicus and C. brachycephalus in the Transvaal, South Africa.

Koedoe ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
J.I. De Wet ◽  
H.J. Schoonbee
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
National Parks ◽  
National Park ◽  
Nature Reserve ◽  
Conservation Status ◽  
Species Conservation ◽  
Nature Reserves ◽  
Conservation Priority ◽  
Conservation Area ◽  
Conservation Plans

In South Africa, Ceratogyrus is presently protected by the Transvaal Provincial Nature Conservation Ordinance. Owing to the demand for these spiders as pets they are classified as Commercially Threatened in terms of the ILJCN system. It was found, however, that the two known species in the Transvaal are well represented in protected areas which include nature reserves and national parks. Ceratogyrus bechuanicus is well represented in the Kruger National Park, Messina, D'nyala and Atherstone provincial nature reserves, as well as in the Klaserie and Sabi Sand private nature reserves in the Transvaal. The only conservation area in which C. brachycephalus has been located is the Messina Provincial Nature Reserve. With its much smaller distribution, C. brachycephalus has a higher conservation priority than C. bechuanicus. Applied ecological work needs to be done so that comprehensive species conservation plans for both species can be compiled.

scholarly journals The Lamai Wedge in Tanzania

Oryx ◽  
1973 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-24
Author(s):  
J. S. Owen
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
National Park ◽  
Domestic Animals ◽  
Good News ◽  
Critical Area ◽  
Serengeti National Park ◽  
Do So

Following a visit to Tanzania in the autumn of 1972, the author, who, until 1971, was Director of National Parks in Tanzania, reports the good news that the Government's decision to allow grazing of domestic animals in a critical area bordering the Serengeti National Park has in fact been strictly interpreted. The amount of grazing is declining and is likely to do so still more.

scholarly journals New records of 43 spider species from the Mountain Zebra National Park, South Africa (Arachnida: Araneae)

Koedoe ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
A.S. Dippenaar-Schoeman
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
National Parks ◽  
National Survey ◽  
National Park ◽  
Nature Reserve ◽  
New Records ◽  
Nature Reserves ◽  
Kruger National Park ◽  
Spider Species

This study forms part of the South African National Survey of Arachnida (SANSA), initiated in 1997 with the main aim to create an inventory of the arachnid fauna of South Africa (Dippenaar-Schoeman & Craemer 2000). One of the objectives of SANSA is to assess the number of arachnid species presently protected in conserved areas in the country. Check lists of spiders are now available for three national parks, three nature reserves and a conservancy. These areas include: Mountain Zebra National Park (Dippenaar-Schoeman 1988); Karoo National Park (Dippenaar-Schoeman et al. 1999); Kruger National Park (Dippenaar- Schoeman & Leroy 2002); Roodeplaatdam Nature Reserve (Dippenaar-Schoeman et al. 1989); Makelali Nature Reserve (Whitmore et al. 2001, 2002); Swartberg Nature Reserve (Dippenaar-Schoeman et al. 2005); and the Soutpansberg Conservancy (Foord et al. 2002).

scholarly journals Representation analysis of large reserves units network in Western Volyn-Podillia region

2011 ◽  
pp. 364-370
Author(s):  
V. Khudoba
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
National Parks ◽  
National Park ◽  
Nature Reserves ◽  
Natural Reserve ◽  
Regional Landscape

The article is dedicated to the analysis of the network of reserves, national parks and regional landscape parks in Western Volyn-Podillia region. The research has determined their level of representation of nature-territorial complexes of the region itself. It has been suggested in the article to optimize these objects in order to increase their representation by means of creating more regional landscape parks. Key words: nature reserves stock, natural reserve, national park, regional landscape park, natureterritorial complexes.

From Competition to Cooperation: A History of Canada–US National Park Relations

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terence Young ◽  
Alan MacEachern ◽  
Lary Dilsaver
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
National Park ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Us ◽  
Park Service ◽  
Settler Societies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Flow Of Information ◽  
The Relationship

This essay explores the evolving international relationship of the two national park agencies that in 1968 began to offer joint training classes for protected-area managers from around the world. Within the British settler societies that dominated nineteenth century park-making, the United States’ National Park Service (NPS) and Canada’s National Parks Branch were the most closely linked and most frequently cooperative. Contrary to campfire myths and nationalist narratives, however, the relationship was not a one-way flow of information and motivation from the US to Canada. Indeed, the latter boasted a park bureaucracy before the NPS was established. The relationship of the two nations’ park leaders in the half century leading up to 1968 demonstrates the complexity of defining the influences on park management and its diffusion from one country to another.

Into Russian Nature

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan D. Roe
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
National Parks ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
National Park ◽  
World War ◽  
Nature Protection ◽  
Soviet Government ◽  
History Of ◽  
Development Goals

Into Russian Nature examines the history of the Russian national park movement. Russian biologists and geographers had been intrigued with the idea of establishing national parks before the Great October Revolution but pushed the Soviet government successfully to establish nature reserves (zapovedniki) during the USSR’s first decades. However, as the state pushed scientists to make zapovedniki more “useful” during the 1930s, some of the system’s staunchest defenders started supporting tourism in them. In the decades after World War II, the USSR experienced a tourism boom and faced a chronic shortage of tourism facilities. Also during these years, Soviet scientists took active part in Western-dominated international environmental protection organizations, where they became more familiar with national parks. In turn, they enthusiastically promoted parks for the USSR as a means to reconcile environmental protection and economic development goals, bring international respect to Soviet nature protection efforts, and help instill a love for the country’s nature and a desire to protect it in Russian/Soviet citizens. By the late 1980s, their supporters pushed transformative, and in some cases quixotic, park proposals. At the same time, national park opponents presented them as an unaffordable luxury during a time of economic struggle, especially after the USSR’s collapse. Despite unprecedented collaboration with international organizations, Russian national parks received little governmental support as they became mired in land-use conflicts with local populations. While the history of Russia’s national parks illustrates a bold attempt at reform, the state’s failure’s to support them has left Russian park supporters deeply disillusioned.

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