... offers suggestions for future research in gorilla and primate socioecology, assesses the future of gorillas as a species, and examines the relevance of gorilla socioecology to conservation. Isbell L Tinbergen N Young T explanations hypothesis theory socioecology strategies conflict compromise...

... human activity in ancient Belize indigenous people access to political society and Kerr McGee Corporation Silkwood Karen Cold War Los Alamos environmental history re-wilding conservation on toxic lands ideologies of landscape naturalizing environmental hazard Given the multigenerational...

...In 1995, 34 public and private organizations joined together to launch an unconventional regional conservation effort, the Chicago Wilderness Initiative, in the greater Chicago metropolitan area. They set themselves the mission of protecting the natural communities in the Chicago region...

... by military activities fall within this definition too. Broad shifts in the geographies of national defense and geopolitics have led to a variety of transitioning uses for militarized landscapes. Many of these landscapes have been dedicated to conservation purposes. While these changes often present...

...There is an important link between environmental ethics and conservation biology. Ideally, the former tells us what to conserve and the latter tells us how to conserve it. This book is about science, not ethics, and ethical issues are addressed only to the extent that they make a difference...

... and rationalism at the heart of the making of technocratic modernity. The notion that scientific certainty governed all Progressive Era conservationism dates back to Samuel Hays’s 1959 Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency. Although many have criticized Hays’s work, his argument about...

... Townsend, and Frederic Webster revolutionized the world of museum display and permanently reshaped the public’s understanding of the natural world. Their work led to the creation of America’s major zoos and laid the foundations of the modern wildlife conservation movement. The new taxidermy...

...Frederic Lucas, head of exhibits at the U. S. National Museum, endeavored to design exhibits to educate the public about the need for species conservation. Since serving with Charles Townsend, now director of the New York Aquarium, on the Fur Seal Commission, Lucas had become increasingly aware...

...” of the Frontier highlighted by Frederick Jackson Turner and interprets his oeuvre as an anti-exceptionalist challenge. Historiographically, Turner’s thesis was effectively an endorsement of settler colonialism rather than exceptionalism. The chapter then examines nature conservation through national parks...

... conservation. animals anthropogenic factors’ effects on behaviors “behavioral spillover” and Carere Claudio coping styles humans animal domestication and Maestripieri Dario personalities anthropomorphism and psychology bird studies and adaptation adaptive radiation and behavioral ecology...

... Area Conservation to conservation in human dominated ecosystems is looked at. This chapter establishes that, due to the problems with Protected Area Conservation, conservation in the 21^st century must embrace human-made system, through other conservation models. Yet, some of these models...

... Acidobacteria Actinobacteria Bacteroidetes Chloroflexi Firmicutes Gemmatimonadetes Planctomycetes Proteobacteria Verrucomicrobia Xiphinematobacteriaceae Nitrospira Thermomicrobia herbivory and ground biota conservation landscape management Mara-Serengeti ecosystem microbial community ecosystem...

... and in most cases successful management decisions have been taken. Tanzania as a whole has also benefited from this research. We show how it is directly relevant to the major national concerns of economics, health, social welfare, ecosystem services and conservation. management and research research...

...Covers Roosevelt’s post-presidential safari in East Africa and his subsequent visits to Egypt and Europe. While the hunting aspect of the African trip is important, the visit was framed to promote conservation and imperialism as fundamental to the colonial world’s economic progress. Examines...

...The purpose of the 1955 Rome conference was to provide “technical” advice on fishing to the International Law Commission (ILC) and to construct the “international machinery” that would allow regulation of fishing for conservation purposes and permit continued freedom to fish on the high seas...

... that are always shaping, and being shaped by, human actions that began long ago and that continue up to this instant. Over the last two centuries, those actions have included land use practices that dramatically disrupted the older ecological order, as well as revolutionary conservation measures that have...

... are complex. The author explores a series of controversial theories related to the original work of Darwin as well as modern concerns but also explores problems of conservation unique to plants surviving in a rapidly changing world. Arachnorchis Drakonorchis Jonesiopsis Australia Australian Darwin Charles...

... the last decade into discussions over the Anthropocene, domesticated nature, intervention ecology, and novel ecosystems. In this context of increasing controversy over the reasons and methods for conserving nature, biodiversity loss emerges as an issue that is closely associated with cultural anxieties...

...This overview outlines the tasks performed by field biologists, which include discovering what’s out there (natural history), describing how it fits together (ecology), determining how to save the parts we value (wildlife biology), and figuring out how to save everything (conservation biology...