Public participation on waste management between nature reserves and surrounding informal settlement: A review

XS Grangxabe, T Maphanga… - Journal of the Air & Waste …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Human land use has begun exerting pressure on global ecosystems, causing a decline in
biodiversity, and putting pressure on the biosphere's ability to support life. Migration and …

Analysing and applying stakeholder perceptions to improve protected area governance in Ugandan conservation landscapes

J Omoding, G Walters, E Andama, S Carvalho… - Land, 2020 - mdpi.com
Given the diversity of active institutions and stakeholders in a landscape, and the difficulties
in ensuring inclusive decision-making, evaluating landscape governance can help surface …

A simple and practical measure of the connectivity of protected area networks: the ProNet metric

DM Theobald, ATH Keeley, A Laur… - … Science and Practice, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Measuring connectivity is key to track progress toward broad conservation goals, such as
the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity's proposed Post‐2020 Global …

Evidence for increasing human‐wildlife conflict despite a financial compensation scheme on the edge of a Ugandan National Park

A Braczkowski, J Fattebert, R Schenk… - … Science and Practice, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The conflict of large carnivores and agro‐pastoral communities is a key driver of carnivore
decline globally. The East African state of Uganda relies heavily on tourism as a GDP …

WEGE: A new metric for ranking locations for biodiversity conservation

H Farooq, J Azevedo, F Belluardo… - Diversity and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Effective policymaking for biological conservation requires the identification and ranking
of the most important areas for protection or management. One of the most frequently used …

Mapping deforestation and recovery of tropical montane forests of East Africa

S Ojoatre, C Zhang, G Yesuf, MC Rufino - Frontiers in Environmental …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Deforestation poses a major threat to the tropical montane forest ecosystems of East Africa.
Montane forests provide key and unique ecological and socio-economic benefits to the local …

Importance of including Key Biodiversity Areas in China's conservation area-based network

X Dong, J Gong, W Zhang, S Zhang, Y Hu, G Yang… - Biological …, 2024 - Elsevier
Identifying optimal areas for future conservation is crucial to halting biodiversity loss.
Unfortunately, China's current conservation initiatives neglect the significance of Key …

< Establishing baseline data for herpetofauna in western Uganda, an East African biodiversity hotspot: Reptile and amphibian diversity in Uganda

M Behangana, S Ayebare, R Magala, W Lukwago… - Herpetology …, 2023 - biotaxa.org
We conducted surveys at 14 locations in western Uganda to generate baseline data on the
diversity and community structure of herpetofauna before the area is significantly impacted …

Using diversity indices for identifying the priority sites for herpetofauna conservation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

KZ Chifundera - Nature Conservation Research. Заповедная наука, 2019 - cyberleninka.ru
To date, knowledge about the herpetological diversity and the species distribution in the
Democratic Republic of the Congo remains largely incomplete. In order to fill this gap, we …

Conflict or harmony: framing of wildlife news in a biodiversity hotspot

SJ Gessa, W Tayeebwa, V Muwanika… - Journalism and …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Newspapers are avenues of the media that can influence public perceptions. Newspapers
are especially important to engender support for wildlife protection because they reach …