Tropical Australia's Crocodile Entrepreneurs
Arcadia, Spring 2019, no. 4
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Nature's Past episode 49: "Wildlife Conservation in Quebec"
In episode 49 of Nature’s Past, a podcast on Canadian environmental history, Sean Kheraj speaks with Darcy Ingram about Ingram’s 2014 book Wildlife Conservation and Conflict in Quebec, 1840-1914.
"Optimal Monitoring Strategy to Detect Rule-breaking: A Power and Simulation Approach Parameterised with Field Data from Gola Rainforest National Park, Sierra Leone"
Sorrel Jones, Malcolm D. Burgess, Frazer Sinclair, Jeremy Lindsell and Juliet Vickery present new data on rule-breaking prevalence in Gola Rainforest National Park, Sierra Leone, and use these data in spatially explicit simulations to assess the survey effort and design required to detect change and assess the effect of rule-breaker behavior to these designs.
“The Love of the Chase Is an Inherent Delight in Man”: Hunting and Masculine Emotions in the Victorian Zoologist’s Travel Memoir
Through a reading of two Victorian travel memoirs, Will Abberley demonstrates the contradictions in Victorian attitudes towards masculinity, nature, and emotions.
Inventing Bushcraft: Masculinity, Technology, and Environment in Central Africa, ca. 750–1250
Kathryn M. de Luna explores the gendered micropolitics of knowledge production through a case study of Botatwe-speaking societies (ca. 750–1250) in south central Africa.
Horn
This film explores the social dimensions of the illegal rhino horn trade in South Africa.
CAMPFIRE Project Zimbabwe
In an effort to promote the longevity of endangered species and the financial stability of communities in Zimbabwe, the Communal Areas Management Programme for Indigenous Resources (CAMPFIRE) was founded. Hunters can pay for licensure to shoot one prized game animal in Zimbabwe, with proceeds going to wildlife conservation.
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The Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon
The passenger pigeon, once one of the most abundant birds in the world, is pushed to extinction in 1914 by deforestation and the commercial consumption of its meat.
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The Introduction of Reindeer to Alaska
The US Government begins importation of some Sami Reindeer Herders and their Reindeer–both native to Northern Scandinavia–to Alaska in an effort to teach the Inuit population to herd Reindeer as a source of income and sustenance.
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The Conservation Reserve Program
In the United States the 1985 Farm Bill lead to the creation of a program called the Conservation Reserve Program. It allows farmers to enter into a rental contract in which they are paid for idling and reverting agricultural land to natural ecosystems for conservation purposes.
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