Map of the Namibian component of the Kavango-Zambezi Conservation Area (KAZA TFCA). The map shows the study area including the location of national parks (light green) and conservancies (purple grid), larger irrigation areas (blue points) in the area, areas under crop cultivation (green grid...
New evidence indicates that Arctic areas with the thickest ice today probably melted out every year during the summer for about 1,600 years during the early Holocene (ca. 11.3-9.7k years ago), making the Arctic virtually ice-free. As I argue in my new book, this means that polar bears ...
The concept of conservation areas was introduced in England, Wales and Scotland by theCivic Amenities Act 1967. When the legislation was introduced there was widespread public concern over the pace of redevelopment in our historic towns and cities. Today there are over 10,000 conservation areas in...
Puritz-Evans, Amy Hill, in Marine Protected Areas, 2020 Site selection – English MCZs MCZs are the most common type of MPA in England aside from EMSs. The Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs must designate MCZs to contribute to the achievement of the objective in ...
This paper applied a GIS platform (ArcGis software) as a tool to measure the conflicting use between priority areas for conservation and potential mineral and oil and gas exploitation sites. The study has as goal to analyze and quantify the distribution of each process stage, to determine the ...
One of the most visible consequences of severe climate change will be the massive northward shift of agricultural zones. The 2012 Plant Hardiness Zone Map updated by the U. S. Department of Agriculture in late 2023 and shows some zone shifts that might be because of global warming. However, ...
Potential influx of climate migrants from harder-hit areas Increased pressure on local resources, especially water and food More frequent and severe extreme weather events Changes in local agricultural productivity Against this backdrop, continued population growth would exacerbate an already dire situation...
Maps should only show the area actually studied and authors should not include a location map which displays a larger area than the bounding box of the study area. Authors should add a note clearly stating that "map lines delineate study areas and do not necessarily depict accepted national ...
The UK also has expressed strong willingness to work with China in tackling transnational challenges. This is a wide-open opportunity for China to seek collaboration on areas of high moral ground and common interest which are in line with the interests of both China and the world, avoiding or...
Our objective was to identify high priority conservation areas in the southernmost known portion of the species’ distribution by modelling habitat selection at the landscape scale using a predictive distribution map. Our results show that the distribution of Cuvier’s Gazelle is strongly related to ...