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  Tourism, poaching and wildlife conservation: what can integrated conservation and development projects accomplish?

  Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2004

  This paper examines Integrated Conservation and Development Projects (ICDPs), which have frequently been established in Africa to improve wildlife conservation and the welfare of local communities.
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  Conservation of wildlife: a bio-economic model of a wildlife reserve under the pressure of habitat destruction and harvesting outside the reserve

  Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2004

  It is commonly perceived that biodiversity is threatened by many factors of which destruction and reduction of habitats is considered most the important for terrestrial species. This paper argues that, in order to counteract these threats, reserves should be established with restrictions on land-use and exploitation.
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  Biodiversity conservation, communication and language: is English a solution, a problem or both?

  Community-Based Natural Resource Management Network, 2004

  Biodiversity conservation is becoming a global agenda operating on an equally global arena. The name if the game is communication and collaboration across cultures and languages, facilitated by ICTs.
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  Modern wildlife conservation initiatives and the pastoralist/hunter nomads of north western Tibet

  Case Western Reserve University, 2002

  This paper reports on a Norwegian lead collaborative research project examining human-wildlife interactions and conservation priorities in the western part of the Chang Tang Nature Preserve, north-western Tibet.Highlights of the paper include:within the western part of the Chang Tang nature preserve, there exist rapidly diminishing populations of chiru antelope and wild yaksan estim
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  Participatory biodiversity conservation in the South Asia region : proceedings of Regional Networking Seminar and Second General Assembly : February 2001, Kathmandu, Nepal

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2001

  This report documents the keynote presentations of the South Asian Participatory Biodiversity Conservation Forum in February 2001, Kathmandu, Nepal.The themes of the working papers include:participatory biodiversity conservation in the traditional farming systems of Kerala, southern Indiabiodiversity resource management in Bangladesh with special emphasis on ricelandscape biodiv
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  Spatial prioritisation of environmental service payments for biodiversity protection

  Norsk institutt for vannforskning / Norwegian Institute for Water Research, 2003

  This study demonstrates the use of TARGET trade-offs analysis for prioritising environmental service payments (so-called PSA or 'Pagos por Servicios Ambientales' in Spanish ) to private land-owners in the Osa Conservation Area (ACOSA), Costa Rica.The paper answers a number of research questions of direct management relevance in ACOSA and general relevance to biodiversity conservation planning i
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  Wildlife conservation policies and incentives to hunt: an empirical analysis of illegal hunting in western Serengeti, Tanzania

  Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2004

  This paper examines the factors which determine participation and effort in illegal hunting, in western Serengeti, Tanzania.
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  Property rights and natural resource conservation: a bio-economic model with numerical illustrations from the Serengeti-Mara ecosystem

  Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2003

  This paper examines under what conditions a community based management system results in higher wildlife abundance and more conservation.
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  The sustainable use of vicuna in Argentina: local and international interests

  BIOECON, 2003

  This paper examines the forces that have shaped policies concerning the management of the vicuna (a wild camelid that lives in the High Andes) in Argentina.
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  Tanguar Haor wetland biodiversity conservation project: an appraisal

  Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, 2001

  An appraisal of the project proposal Tanguar Haor Wetland Biodiversity to confirm whether the project can successfully and practically apply and achieve its aims.Tanguar Haor Wetland, north east Bangladesh, was declared an ecologically critical area by the Bangladeshi government in 1999.

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