Directory of important bird areas in Egypt
Author : Sherif Baha El Din
Publisher :
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 34,27 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Birds
ISBN : 9789775089250
Author : Sherif Baha El Din
Publisher :
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 34,27 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Birds
ISBN : 9789775089250
Author : Penny F. Langhammer
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 44,23 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 283170992X
Important Bird Areas and Important Plant Areas have already been identified in more than 170 countries. The Key Biodiversity Areas approach builds on the work done to date, in order to provide practical guidance to governments in identifying those sites which must be protected to ensure the future of both biodiversity and humanity.
Author : Sherif Baha el Din
Publisher :
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 20,2 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Birds
ISBN :
Author : Josep-Maria Mallarach
Publisher : Kasparek Verlag
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 32,40 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Conservation of natural resources
ISBN : 3925064605
Documents, using case studies, the non-material values that are to be found in protected landscapes.
Author : Kemi Fuentes-George
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 15,4 MB
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0262333937
A study of biodiversity governance analyzes the factors that determine the effectiveness of transnational advocacy networks and the importance of justice claims to conservation. In the late 2000s, ordinary citizens in Jamaica and Mexico demanded that government put a stop to lucrative but environmentally harmful economic development activities—bauxite mining in Jamaica and large-scale tourism and overfishing on the eastern coast of the Yucatán Peninsula. In each case, the catalyst for the campaign was information gathered and disseminated by transnational advocacy networks (TANs) of researchers, academics, and activists. Both campaigns were successful despite opposition from industry supporters. Meanwhile, simultaneous campaigns to manage land in another part of the Yucatán and to conserve migratory birds in Egypt had far less success. In this book, Kemi Fuentes-George uses these four cases to analyze factors that determine the success or failure of efforts by TANs to persuade policymakers and private sector actors in developing countries to change environmental behavior. Fuentes-George argues that in order to influence the design and implementation of policy, TANs must generate a scientific consensus, create social relationships with local actors, and advocate for biodiversity in a way that promotes local environmental justice. Environmentally just policies would allow local populations access to their lands provided they use natural resources sustainably. Justice claims are also more likely to generate needed support among local groups for conservation projects. In their conservation efforts, Jamaica, Mexico, and Egypt were attempting to meet their obligations under the UN Convention on Biological Diversity and other regional agreements. Fuentes-George's innovative analysis shows the importance of local environmental justice for the implementation of international environmental treaties.
Author : Richard Hoath
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 30,4 MB
Release : 2009-05-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 161797272X
A Field Guide to the Mammals of Egypt is the first comprehensive field guide to every mammal species recorded in contemporary Egypt, from gazelle to gerbil, from hyena to hyrax. Each mammal species is described in detail, with reference to identification features, status, habitat, and habits, and with comparisons to similar species. A map is also provided for each species, clearly showing its current, and in some cases historical, range. Every species is meticulously illustrated the bats and sea mammals in detailed black-and-white illustrations, all other species in scientifically accurate color plates. Additional vignettes emphasize aspects of mammal behavior, cover the minutiae of such features as the nose-leafs and ear structure of the various bat species, and illustrate the tracks and trails of the more commonly encountered mammals. This is an indispensable reference work for anyone interested in the wildlife of Egypt, from professional biologists to desert travelers and interested amateurs. Furthermore, as it describes and illustrates every whale and dolphin species recorded in Egyptian waters, including the Red Sea, it will be of special significance to anyone diving in the region. The book is compact, easy to slip into a daypack, and well up to the rigors of desert travel.
Author : Lauchlan H. Fraser
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 27,58 MB
Release : 2005-06-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 113944395X
This volume presents the views of leading experts on each of the world's largest wetland systems. This international team of authors share their understanding of the ecological dynamics of large wetlands and their significance, and emphasise their need of conservation.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 45,50 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Birds
ISBN :
Author : UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 893 pages
File Size : 42,40 MB
Release : 2023-01-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9231005405
Author : Martin Lillig
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 21,83 MB
Release : 2022-08-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 1000625613
An expanded and updated edition of the out-of-print 2003 supplementum of Zoology in the Middle East, this concise guide to Darkling Beetles of the Sinai Peninsula has been sought after by researchers in taxonomy, faunistics and biogeography. The new book includes two additional subfamilies of tenebrionid beetles (4-5 species), identification keys and more than 90 colour photographs and species distribution maps. Zoogeographically speaking, the Sinai Peninsula is a crossroad and, at the same time, a center of speciation. Despite its generally arid character, the region harbours a wide range of habitats, from sea level to over 2,500 m above. About 10 percent of the Sinai darkling beetles are endemic to the area. The inclusion of species photographs and identification keys makes this book an invaluable reference field guide, for both specialists and non-specialists, who will thus be able to discover the taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity of darkling beetles in the Sinai Peninsula.