The EndangeredSpecies Deskbook is a comprehensive reference to one of the most complex and heavily litigated environmental statutes ever enacted by the U.S. Congress. The EndangeredSpecies Act (ESA), passed in 1973, requires all federal departments and agencies to conserve endangered and threatened ...
Series: FAO Fisheries ReportsThe Panel was convened in response to the agreement by the twenty-fifth session of the FAO Committee on Fisheries (COFI) on the Terms of Reference for an ad hoc expert advisory panel for assessment of proposals to the Convention on International Trade in endangeredSpecies of Wild ...
The implementation of endangeredspecies protection policies has focused, especially in recent years, on the threats posed by various land use practices. Less studied, but nevertheless important, are the wide ranging effects of pollution on endangeredspecies and critical habitat. The harmful effects of pollution ...
Spotbilled pelicans have been coming to breed in the village of Kokkare Bellur in Southern India for hundreds of years. However, numbers are falling drastically all over South Asia and the bird is now a candidate for the endangeredspecies list. This 60 minute documentary explores the reasons for this ...
Series: FAO Fisheries ReportsThe purpose of the workshop was to assist Caribbean countries in the development of effective management plans for queen conch fisheries and, consequently, to improve their capacity to implement regulations and obligations under the Convention on International trade in Endangered ...
Cave and karst landforms are distributed widely around the world. They have many values and are an integral component of the world's biodiversity. Some are habitats for a wide range of endemic species of flora and fauna, while others house rare and endangeredspecies. Still others are the sources of rare ...
This publication is a guide to understanding the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). This publication covers NEPA, the EndangeredSpecies Act, and the Wilderness Act. It focuses on the environmental work of the 562 Indian tribes that play an important role in the environmental arena. The book uses chiefly ...
Big-Leaf Mahogany is the most important commercial timber species of the tropics. Current debate concerning whether to protect it as an endangeredspecies has been hampered by the lack of complete, definitive scientific documentation. This book reports on vital research on the ecology of big-leaf mahogany, ...
In the 1960s, it was believed that no more than about 4,000 orang-utans remained in the wild. Consequently, IUCN - The World Conservation Union - declared the ape an endangeredspecies, demanding its world-wide protection. Nevertheless, the orang-utan today faces extinction because it is dependent on a ...
This book reviews many of the latest advances in the ecology and conservation of butterflies. It brings together under one cover details of progress in the field of monitoring distribution and abundance, effects of land use, and the management of endangeredspecies. Each chapter is written by recognized ...
In 1988 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service listed two endemic fishes of the upper Klamath River basin of Oregon and California, the sucker and the Lost River sucker, as endangered under the federal EndangeredSpecies Act (ESA). In 1997, the National Marine Fisheries Service added the Southern Oregon Northern ...
This is one of the first books to review the quantitative tools used in the study of such subjects as biodiversity, resource management, and endangeredspecies preservation. The topics covered include population viability analysis, population dynamics, metapopulation models, estimating risks and timing of ...
The conservation and management of wild natural resources stands at a crossroads. On the one hand, there are the stunning successes of the focus of species, of which the protection of endangeredspecies is the pinnacle. On the other hand, stands the need for conservation to embrace landscapes and ...
Wildlife populations may be a significant source of infection for humans and domestic animals while in some cases being themselves endangered by pathogens. The development of sustainable approaches to the management of wildlife diseases is fundamental to the protection of human health, agriculture, and ...
This book seeks to provide the fundamentals in each major area, such as air pollution, water pollution, hazardous waste and toxic pollutant regulation, protection of endangeredspecies, and the National Environmental Policy Act, without overloading the professor and student with exhaustive and unnecessary ...