Africa is endowed with a diverse guild of small carnivores, which could benefit stakeholders by providing ecosystem services while fostering conservation tolerance for carnivores.
Its aim was to promote a vision of sustainable development by combatting poverty, disease and overpopulation; fostering conservation, atmospheric protection, pollution controls and biodiversity; and by establishing a greater role in all of this for non-state actors like women's groups, young people, NGOs and business.
While hunting has fostered conservation in the past, allowing it now could undermine efforts to curb the widespread poaching that underpins the global ivory trade, according to Iain Douglas-Hamilton, founder and senior scientist at the Nairobi-based Save the Elephants.
But at the time, FWS asserted that self-sustaining, captive breeding groups fostered conservation aims by reducing the likelihood that poachers and the like would remove chimpanzees from the wild.
Easements involve voluntary legal contracts allowing lands to remain in private ownership, yet restrict the rights of the property owner in a specific way that fosters conservation [15], [16].
Like the trail system, the children's zoo aims to foster a conservation ethic among the younger generation, Dr. Baker said.
Quantifying and understanding the main drivers of biodiversity responses to human disturbances at multiple scales is key to foster effective conservation plans and management systems.
Matrix restoration effort would be largely maximized by acting on specific places, and multi-scale and interdisciplinary models that account for the biological response of biodiversity and contextualizes under environmental laws will foster effective conservation policies.
John Linnell is an ecologist by training working on a range of inter-disciplinary approaches to foster wildlife conservation and reduce human-wildlife conflicts.
