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 Non-palatable Medicinal Plants as a Solution to Crop Raiding by Wild Herbivores around Protected Areas

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Poorva Joshi ◽  
Milind Watve
Keyword(s):  
Medicinal Plant ◽  
National Park ◽  
Wild Animals ◽  
Crop Raiding ◽  
Conservation Area ◽  
Wildlife Conflict ◽  
The People ◽  
Good Population ◽  
Tiger Reserve ◽  
Human Wildlife Conflict

The Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR) is an important nature conservation area for the country having a good population of wild animals. However, on the fringes of this national park, there are issues of human-wildlife conflict such as crop raiding by wild animals, which is an underestimated problem. The constant threat of crop predators and perceived loss in crop produce has discouraged agriculture in close vicinity of the park. Farming is the main livelihood for the people living near TATR, therefore it is an urgent need to keep under review the alternative options that can contribute to farmers’ welfare. Considering the developing medicinal plant demand, there is potential in cultivating non-palatable traded medicinal plant species that are resistant to crop-raiding by wildlife. The paper suggests such a model for farmers. We focus on research, awareness, motivation, facilitation and establishing market linkages.

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 Social media reveal ecoregional variation in how weather influences visitor behavior in U.S. National Park Service units

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily J. Wilkins ◽  
Peter D. Howe ◽  
Jordan W. Smith
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
National Park Service ◽  
Spatial Behavior ◽  
Maximum Temperature ◽  
Daily Maximum Temperature ◽  
Daily Maximum ◽  
Daily Weather ◽  
Visitor Behavior ◽  
Park Service ◽  
The Impact

AbstractDaily weather affects total visitation to parks and protected areas, as well as visitors’ experiences. However, it is unknown if and how visitors change their spatial behavior within a park due to daily weather conditions. We investigated the impact of daily maximum temperature and precipitation on summer visitation patterns within 110 U.S. National Park Service units. We connected 489,061 geotagged Flickr photos to daily weather, as well as visitors’ elevation and distance to amenities (i.e., roads, waterbodies, parking areas, and buildings). We compared visitor behavior on cold, average, and hot days, and on days with precipitation compared to days without precipitation, across fourteen ecoregions within the continental U.S. Our results suggest daily weather impacts where visitors go within parks, and the effect of weather differs substantially by ecoregion. In most ecoregions, visitors stayed closer to infrastructure on rainy days. Temperature also affects visitors’ spatial behavior within parks, but there was not a consistent trend across ecoregions. Importantly, parks in some ecoregions contain more microclimates than others, which may allow visitors to adapt to unfavorable conditions. These findings suggest visitors’ spatial behavior in parks may change in the future due to the increasing frequency of hot summer days.

scholarly journals Marsh rabbit mortalities tie pythons to the precipitous decline of mammals in the Everglades

2015 ◽  
Vol 282 (1805) ◽  
pp. 20150120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert A. McCleery ◽  
Adia Sovie ◽  
Robert N. Reed ◽  
Mark W. Cunningham ◽  
Margaret E. Hunter ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Ongoing Debate ◽  
Faunal Communities ◽  
Python Molurus ◽  
Scale Experiment ◽  
Precipitous Decline ◽  
Python Molurus Bivittatus ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Ecological Functioning

To address the ongoing debate over the impact of invasive species on native terrestrial wildlife, we conducted a large-scale experiment to test the hypothesis that invasive Burmese pythons ( Python molurus bivittatus ) were a cause of the precipitous decline of mammals in Everglades National Park (ENP). Evidence linking pythons to mammal declines has been indirect and there are reasons to question whether pythons, or any predator, could have caused the precipitous declines seen across a range of mammalian functional groups. Experimentally manipulating marsh rabbits, we found that pythons accounted for 77% of rabbit mortalities within 11 months of their translocation to ENP and that python predation appeared to preclude the persistence of rabbit populations in ENP. On control sites, outside of the park, no rabbits were killed by pythons and 71% of attributable marsh rabbit mortalities were classified as mammal predations. Burmese pythons pose a serious threat to the faunal communities and ecological functioning of the Greater Everglades Ecosystem, which will probably spread as python populations expand their range.

Patterns of scavenger arrival at cheetah kills in Serengeti National Park Tanzania

2007 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 275-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. S. Hunter ◽  
S. M. Durant ◽  
T. M. Caro
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
Serengeti National Park

scholarly journals Do Not Stop: The Importance of Seamless Monitoring and Enforcement in an Indonesian Marine Protected Area

2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sangeeta Mangubhai ◽  
Muhammad Saleh ◽  
Suprayitno ◽  
Andreas Muljadi ◽  
Purwanto ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
Full Moon ◽  
Marine Protected Area ◽  
Fish Spawning ◽  
Monitoring And Enforcement ◽  
Epinephelus Fuscoguttatus ◽  
Food Fish ◽  
Fish Spawning Aggregation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Fish Trade

The harvesting of groupers (Serranidae) in Indonesia for the live reef food fish trade (LRFFT) has been ongoing since the late 1980s. Eight sites in Komodo National Park that included two fish spawning aggregation (FSA) sites were monitored for groupers and humphead wrasse,Cheilinus undulatus, from 1998 to 2003 and from 2005 to 2008 to examine temporal changes in abundance and assess the effectiveness of conservation and management efforts. Monitoring identified FSA sites for squaretail coralgrouper,Plectropomus areolatus, and brown-marbled grouper,Epinephelus fuscoguttatus. Both species formed aggregations before and during full moon from September to December, prior to lapses in monitoring (2003–2005) and in enforcement (2004-2005). Following these lapses, data reveal substantial declines inP. areolatusabundance and the apparent extirpation of one aggregation at one site. Other non-aggregating species targeted by the LRFFT showed similar declines at three of eight monitored sites. This paper highlights the impact of FSA fishing and the need for a seamless monitoring and enforcement protocol in areas where aggregation fishing pressure is high. Within Komodo National Park, local fishers, particularly those operating on behalf of the LRFFT, pose a serious threat to population persistence of species targeted by this trade.

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