Island Biogeography in the Sea of Cortés II

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ted J. Case ◽  
Martin L. Cody ◽  
Exequiel Ezcurra
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Island Biogeography ◽  
Human Population ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Marine Fisheries ◽  
Gulf Region ◽  
Strong Interest ◽  
Natural Beauty ◽  
Mexican Government ◽  
Sea Of Cortes

This updated and expanded A New Island Biogeography of the Sea of Cortés, first published nearly 20 years ago, integrates new and broader studies encompassing more taxa and more complete island coverage. The present synthesis provides a basis for further research and exploration in upcoming years of the biologically fascinating Sea of Cortés region. The Gulf region is increasingly being exploited, for its natural resources by way of marine fisheries, and for its stunning natural beauty by way of a burgeoning tourism industry. Further, the region's human population is increasing apace. It is appropriate, therefore, that this volume discusses these evolving circumstances, and the efforts of the Mexican government to regulate and manage them. The new Biogeography includes a section on the conservation issues in the Sea of Cortés, past accomplishments and conservation needs as yet outstanding. This book should be of strong interest to conservation biologists, ecologists, and evolutionary biologists more generally.

Ecological Conservation

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Exequiel Ezcurra ◽  
Luis Bourillón
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Natural History ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Baja California ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Natural Beauty ◽  
California Academy ◽  
Mexican Government ◽  
Sea Of Cortes ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

In 1973, George Lindsay, one of Baja California’s most eminent botanists, visited the islands of the Sea of Cortés together with Charles Lindbergh, Joseph Wood Krutch, and Kenneth Bechtel. Lindbergh, one of the most celebrated popular heroes of the twentieth century, had become by that time a committed conservationist, interested in the preservation of whales and in the conservation of nature at large. Joseph Wood Krutch, a naturalist, had written The Forgotten Peninsula, one of the first natural history descriptions of Baja California. George Lindsay had helped organize a series of scientific explorations into the Sea of Cortés and the peninsula of Baja California, first from the San Diego Natural History Museum, and later from the California Academy of Sciences (Banks 1962a,b; Lindsay 1962, 1964, 1966, 1970; Wiggins 1962). Kenneth Bechtel, a philanthropist from San Francisco, had given financial support to the Audubon Society in the 1950s and 1960s to study the sea bird rookery at Isla Rasa, which had been decreed a protected area by the Mexican government in 1962. Bechtel was interested in showing the Sea of Cortés to people who might be aroused by its astounding natural beauty and who might help to protect it. For this purpose, he organized the trip and invited Lindbergh to visit the region. The group flew a chartered Catalina flying-boat that allowed them to get to small and remote islands. They landed in the water and then piloted up to the beach so they could have shade under the wing. They visited many of the islands, starting from Consag north of Bahía de los Ángeles, and ending up in Espíritu Santo, east of the Bay of La Paz. It was a wonderful and memorable trip. Two or three months later, both Lindbergh and Lindsay traveled to Mexico City to watch the Mexican premiere of a documentary film on the Sea of Cortés by the California Academy of Sciences that Kenneth Bechtel had sponsored (see chap. 1). Taking advantage of the opportunity, and also of his immense popularity, Charles Lindbergh requested to see the president of Mexico, Luis Echeverría.

Implication of Tourism Traits on Jharkhand Tourism with special reference to perception of local residents

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pranjal Kumar ◽  
Ashutosh Mishra
Keyword(s):  
Economic Factor ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Development Cost ◽  
Tribal Culture ◽  
Natural Beauty ◽  
Domestic Tourism ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
The Impact

Jharkhand is popular for tribal culture and uniqueness of its inherent natural beauty attributing significantly on Tourism Industry of Jharkhand. There has been visible change and impact on socio-economic factor because of tourist influx in the Jharkhand state. The inherent beauty and nature has made the state popular for tourism. The attraction towards various important tourist spots revolves mostly within the domestic tourism. The paper attempts to ascertain the impact of tourism traits, like economic Development, Cost of living, Infrastructure Development, Socio-Cultural and the Environment affect through primary data collected from the responses of residents of six dominant tourist circuits of Jharkhand. The respondent’s views were ascertained on five point Likert Scale. The data so collected was subjected to analysis for identifying the impact of various tourism traits on the prospects of Jharkhand Tourism.

scholarly journals Primates and conservation priorities in Madagascar

Oryx ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 209-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon I. Pollock
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Human Population ◽  
Conservation Priorities ◽  
Behavioural Ecology ◽  
Primate Conservation ◽  
Conservation Of Natural Resources ◽  
Primate Society

Madagascar's conservation problems are many, but the Malagasy Government is working towards solutions, having recently passed into law a strategy that links development with the conservation of natural resources. The protection of the country's remaining forests is a key concern, both for the human population and for the non-human primates. The author is a primatologist and has a research background in behavioural ecology, reproduction and conservation, especially with prosimians. This article was first presented at the joint Primate Society of Great Britain/FFPS meeting on primate conservation in December 1985.

scholarly journals PENILAIAN DAYA TARIK OBJEK WISATA ALAM RIAM ANGAN TEMBAWANG DI DESA ANGAN TEMBAWANG KECAMATAN JELIMPO KABUPATEN LANDAK

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aristo Aristo ◽  
Slamet Rifanjani ◽  
Siti Latifah
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Assessment Criteria ◽  
Tourist Attraction ◽  
Nature Tourism ◽  
West Kalimantan ◽  
Natural Objects ◽  
Natural Beauty ◽  
Descriptive Method

Riam Angan Tembawang Village is located in Jelimpo District, Landak Regency, West Kalimantan Province. Angan Tembawang Village has interesting natural tourism to visit, such natural objects are rivers and waterfalls and are called Riam Angan Tembawang. This study aims to determine the natural tourist attraction of Riam Angan Tembawang Village, Jelimpo District, Landak Regency. This research was conducted by the descriptive method. Data obtained by direct interviews with respondents about the attractiveness of attractions and fill out a list of questions. The results of the calculation of all the assessment criteria for attraction of Riam Angan Tembawang attraction as well as the elements and sub-elements, namely natural beauty 26,66%, the uniqueness of natural resources 22,36 %, the amount of potential natural resources 22,22 %, natural resource 26,63 %, sensitivity of natural resources 17,08 %, types of nature tourism activities 28,33 %, air cleanliness and location no effect 25,77 %, vulnerability of encroachment and the fire 11,11 %. All elements of attraction assess by the Riam Angan Tembawang tourism are 1.080,96 and this area has good area attractions (B) to be developed into a tourist attraction.Keywords: attraction, nature, riam angan tembawang, tourist attraction.

Global trends in population, energy use and climate: implications for policy development, rangeland management and rangeland users

2013 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerry L. Holechek
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Interest Rates ◽  
Fresh Water ◽  
Human Population ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Land Development ◽  
The United States ◽  
Livestock Production ◽  
Production Costs

Increasing world human population, declining reserves of cheaply extracted fossil fuels, scarcity of supplies of fresh water and climatic instability will put tremendous pressure on world rangelands as the 21st century progresses. It is expected that the human population of the world will increase by 40% by 2050 but fossil fuel and reserves of fresh water will be drastically reduced. Avoiding food shortages and famine could be a major world challenge within the next 10 years. Under these conditions, major changes in policies relating to economic growth and use of natural resources seem essential. Stabilisation of the human population, development of clean and renewable energy, enhanced supplies of water and its quality, increased livestock production, and changed land-use policies, that minimise agricultural land losses to development and fragmentation, will all be needed to avoid declining living conditions at the global level. The health and productivity of rangelands will need to receive much more emphasis as they are a primary source of vital ecosystem services and products essential to human life. Changes in tax policies by developed, affluent countries, such as the United States, Australia and Canada, are needed that emphasise saving and conservation as opposed to excessive material consumption and land development. Extreme levels of debt and chronic deficits in trade by the United States and European Union countries need to be moderated to avoid a devastating collision of debt, depletion of natural resources, and environmental degradation. Over the next 10 years, livestock producers of the rangelands will benefit from a major increase in demand and prices for meat. Rapidly increasing demand for meat in China and other Asian countries is driving this trend. Rangeland managers, however, will also likely encounter greater climatic, financial, biological and political risks. Higher interest rates, higher production costs and higher annual variability in forage resources are major challenges that will confront rangeland managers in the years ahead. Under these conditions, a low risk approach to livestock production from rangelands is recommended that involves conservative stocking, use of highly adapted livestock, and application of behavioural knowledge of livestock to efficiently use forage resources.

From Earning Profits to Sustainability

2019 ◽  
pp. 229-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manpreet Arora ◽  
Sandeep Kumar Walia
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Foreign Exchange ◽  
Hotel Industry ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Developing Nation ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
The Government

In India the potential of tourism sector is considerable in terms of earning foreign exchange. That is why the government has initiated many programmes and schemes to attract foreign tourists. It has also given a rise to the allied industries to earn profits and diversify may it be hotel industry or aviation sector. As the means of communication are developing and the countries are becoming more open and globalised the tourism industry has got new impetus and dimensions. The spread of education and the development of internet have widened the scope of this industry. This new trend has made the tourism industry a very potential industry in many terms for a developing nation like India. But on the same hand it has posed a great threat to the natural resources also and the stakeholders involved in this sector has started responding to such initiatives through CSR measures. For measuring such initiatives no specific parameters have been defined and they are subjective to a great extent. Therefore a need arises to analyse such initiatives and their growing need for creating sustainability.

Application of Geoinformation Technology to the Management of Community-Based Natural Resources for Tourism Development in Northern Tanzania

2022 ◽  
pp. 183-205
Author(s):  
Norbert John Ngowi
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Geographical Information Systems ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Natural Resources Management ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Critical Measure ◽  
Northern Tanzania

The approaches to natural resources management have evolved. Disparities in their adoption are likely to produce a long-lasting negative impact on the resources and the livelihood security of the community depending on them. The use of geoinformation by the local community is a critical measure to the sustainability of its resources. Nonetheless, the application of geoinformation technologies to the community-based natural resources for the tourism industry is highly unknown. This chapter reviewed the application of geoinformation technology to the management of community-based natural resources in the Pangani District of Northern Tanzania. It considers how geoinformation technology is used in the management of tourism activities for community development. Specifically, the chapter discusses community developments resulting from that as well as challenges associated with the use of geographical information systems and remote sensing technologies. The chapter concludes with key recommendations for improving those challenges.

Reptiles: Ecology

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ted J. Case
Keyword(s):  
Island Biogeography ◽  
Ecological Factors ◽  
Character Displacement ◽  
Research Attention ◽  
Ecological Release ◽  
Long Term Study ◽  
Evolutionary Trajectories ◽  
Sea Of Cortes

The reptiles of the islands of the Sea of Cortés have provided many opportunities to test ecological and biogeographical hypotheses because they support a diverse fauna with much insular endemism; are numerous and of varying ages and degrees of isolation; are relatively undisturbed by human activity and introduced species; and have a relatively well-understood geological history (see chap. 2). In particular, contrasts of mainland and island reptile populations in the region have resulted in significant progress in testing theories of island biogeography, principles of ecological character displacement, ecological release, density compensation, and vicariance biogeography (see chap. 8). The reptiles, being conspicuous in these arid habitats, have attracted relatively more research attention than other vertebrates, and today we have a reasonably complete picture of at least which species are on which islands. Since the first edition of this book, nearly 20 years ago, there have been only 15 new records for the major islands, of which all but one are of snakes. In this chapter I review the basic elements of reptilian island biogeography in the Sea of Cortés with an emphasis on ecological factors shaping distributions and evolutionary trajectories. I first examine the patterns of species diversity and association across islands. I then take a closer look at some particular island forms, reviewing features of their life history that seem divergent from mainland relatives. In this regard I present some new data from a long-term study of two insular species of chuckwallas. Finally, I review patterns of population density across islands and their possible determinants. A recurrent debate in island biogeography centers on the relative importance of contemporary and ongoing ecological factors relative to historical circumstances in accounting for the number and the identities of species on islands. Historical biogeographers typically view the number of species on an island as being determined by the availability of appropriate habitats. They see changes in species composition chiefly as a consequence of alteration of the mix of habitats due to climatic change (e.g., Pregill and Olson 1980; Olson and Hilgartner 1982); extinctions are posited to occur in waves, as old habitats disappear and new ones become available.

scholarly journals Human-Leopard (Panthera pardus fusca) Co-Existence in Jhalana Forest Reserve, India

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (14) ◽  
pp. 3912 ◽  
Author(s):  
Swapnil Kumbhojkar ◽  
Reuven Yosef ◽  
Yanina Benedetti ◽  
Federico Morelli
Keyword(s):  
Island Biogeography ◽  
Human Population ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Panthera Pardus ◽  
Top Predator ◽  
Forest Reserve ◽  
The Past ◽  
Exponential Increase ◽  
Wilderness Areas ◽  
Human Animal

The intensity and frequency of human-animal conflicts has escalated in recent decades due to the exponential increase in the human population over the past century and the subsequent encroachment of human activities on wilderness areas. Jhalana Forest Reserve (JFR) presents the characteristics of island biogeography in the heart of Jaipur, which is a city of 3.1 million people. The leopard (Panthera pardus fusca) is the top predator in this newly declared sanctuary of 29 km². We surveyed people in the 18 villages that engulf this sanctuary. We questioned the villagers’ (n = 480) perceptions about conservation. As much as 93% (round figure) of the population has encountered leopards, and 83% were fully aware of its role in the ecosystem. In addition, 100% stressed the necessity of conservation to save the forests and 91% supported the efforts to a wall in the reserve in order to prevent human encroachment. Most of the population is Jains and Gujars, which are communities that believe in non-violence. We conclude that the villagers support conservation efforts. The authorities that manage JFR view the villagers favorably and, as stakeholders, are the basis for continued human-leopard coexistence.

scholarly journals A Geospatial Approach to Enhance Point of the Interest and Tourism Potential Centers in Parner Tehsil in Maharashtra, India

2021 ◽  
pp. 186-196
Author(s):  
Vasudev S. Salunke ◽  
Santosh J. Lagad ◽  
Ravindra S. Bhagat ◽  
Nanabhau S. Kudnar
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Data ◽  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Tourist Attractions ◽  
Tourist Destinations ◽  
Point Of Interest ◽  
Points Of Interest ◽  
Natural Beauty ◽  
Tourism Potential ◽  
Geographical Point

This study aims to identify geographical points of interest and tourism potential in Parner tehsil of Ahmednagar District of Maharashtra and to highlight the attractive tourist destinations and religious places in the region. To the introduced exact situation and importance of many wonderful, useful distinctive places and geographical point of interest in Parner tehsil. This paper is descriptive in nature and qualitative study based on empirical observations. This study based on primary and secondary data. All natural geographical, historical and cultural tourist centers were visited during study period. Parner tehsil is enriched of geographical, historical, and cultural tourism aspects. Suitable maps were prepared with the help of QGIS and ARC MAP software’s for the ease of tourists. Tourist attractions in the tehsil as is, natural beauty, potholes, caves, temples, ideal village, industries, festivals etc. Even though Nighoj potholes and Vadgaon Darya caves are famous geographical destinations but other places are neglected by tourism industry experts. This paper will also become much helpful for planner, tourists, historians, geographers and archeologists to access remote but well known destinations.

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