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Traditional Amchi Medicinal Practice in Trans-Himalaya of Nepal: Conservation and Bioprospecting
Sowa Rigpa (gso ba rig pa), also referred to as Amchi Medicine or Tibetan Medicine, is a traditional system of health care being practiced for...
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The Potential of Prairie Pothole Wetlands as an Agricultural Conservation Practice: A Synthesis of Empirical Data
Nutrient pollution causing harmful algal blooms and eutrophication is a major threat to aquatic systems. Throughout North America, agricultural...
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Transformative potential of conservation actions
Transformative change can help achieve the 2050 vision of biodiversity, but concrete ways to achieve it are only being discovered. To contribute to...
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Decolonizing Primate Conservation Practice: A Case Study from North Morocco
Understanding the historical context of an area enables an incoming conservationist to reflect on their role in communities and to better position...
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Soil and Water Conservation Techniques in Rainfed Areas
Agronomic measures and engineering measures are the techniques for soil and water conservation in rainfed areas. Agronomic practices for soil and...
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Conservation Genetics in the Neotropics
This book explores how genetics and the new technologies in genomics have been used for conservation of plants and animals in the Neotropics. It...
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Protecting commonplace biodiversity under international conservation law
A contemporary appraisal of the extent to which international conservation law provides for the protection of commonplace biodiversity. It is argued...
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Achieving conservation outcomes in plant mitigation translocations: the need for global standards
Many countries have legislation intended to limit or offset the impact of anthropogenic disturbance and development on threatened plants....
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Practicing the Conservation of Life Forms
The practice of life form conservation deals with each extinction threat in four stages: (i) representation of the form, (ii) explicit evaluation of...
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Conservation Without Life Forms
The natural historical language of life forms has hardly ever been central to, and is only becoming more and more irrelevant, to the outcomes of...
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Advances in plant conservation translocation
With thousands of performed cases, conservation translocation is now widely used to restore rare and threatened plant populations worldwide. While we...
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Column: My First Ever Conservation Practice with African Great Apes—Bonobos in Wamba
“Pya, pya, pya, …” high pitched typical bonobo sounds were approaching us in the forest of Yokoshi village, where I had been observing the E2 group...
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Capturing conservation in the post-genomics era: a book review of “Conservation and the Genomics of Populations.”
Conservation genetics is a relatively new discipline, and yet has rapidly evolved in the last decade with massive advances in sequencing...
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Conservation Approaches of Plant Genetic Resources
The vast pool of biodiversity and genetic variation among plant species and its indubitable role in selection and crop improvement have prompted a...
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Effects of future climate change on rare and endangered species in inner Mongolia, China: Vulnerability, priority conservation areas and sustainable conservation strategies
Rare and endangered species have narrow geographical distributions and are vulnerable to environmental changes. Studying the impact of future climate...
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Assessing conservation outcomes and maximizing habitat connectivity for multiple species in systematic conservation plans: a case study in Yolo County, California
ContextHabitat connectivity is key when designing reserve networks for conservation of species at risk. Acquiring land over time to achieve...
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Landrace in situ (on-farm) conservation: European Union achievements
This paper offers an insight on present status of on-farm conservation of landrace diversity in the European Union. The review initially examines the...
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Climate co-benefits of tiger conservation
Biodiversity conservation is increasingly being recognized as an important co-benefit in climate change mitigation programmes that use nature-based...
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Contributions of human cultures to biodiversity and ecosystem conservation
The expansion of globalized industrial societies is causing global warming, ecosystem degradation, and species and language extinctions worldwide....
