Beef cattle may offer a more profitable option and a benign grazing regime. Since March 2018 Fundaţia ADEPT has managed a 60-strong Aberdeen Angus beef herd in 240 ha of Angofa valley, 5 km south of ...the historic town of Sighișoara, to restore grassland degraded by 15 years of sheep grazing. Concerns about greenhouse gas emissions from beef production rarely distinguish between beef raised on permanent pasture and that relying on inputs linked to intensive arable farming, imported feed or rainforest clearance. The soil of permanent pastures, especially when extensively grazed by domestic or wild herbivores, can reduce net carbon (CO2, CH4) emissions by > 90% or even sequester more CO2 than emitted. Since 2017 removal of sheep in Angofa valley, combined with cattle grazing, has allowed restitution of pastures and other habitats.
Evan Quah Seng Huat, for his work on the conservation of karst habitats in Myanmar Evan has been studying reptiles and amphibians in these little explored karst regions before they are quarried to ...satisfy the insatiable appetite for cement. Nattawadee Nantarat, for her work on land snails in Thailand and South-east Asia Nattawadee analyses the biodiversity and evolutionary relationships of land snails in Thailand and South-east Asia to help support programmes for karst conservation. Daoyuan Yu, for his work on the species diversity and biogeography of springtails in East and South-east Asia; Liew Jia Huan, for his work on understanding and conserving land snail diversity in Malaysia; Mark Louie D. Lopez, for his work on microcrustacean species in the Philippines and elsewhere in South-east Asia; Odbayar Tumendemberel, for her work on Gobi brown bears; Sheherazade, for her work on flying foxes in Sulawesi, Indonesia; and Wildan Ghiffary Turmudi, for his work on fisheries in Indonesia.
The region of Tarnava Mare in Southern Transylvania contains extensive semi-natural open landscapes maintained by predominantly low-intensity farming, which is widespread in Romania and indeed many ...areas of Eastern Europe. Threats to these species-rich habitats from agricultural intensification and land abandonment have been increasing in recent years, to a large extent linked with Romania’s accession to the EU in 2007. At the same time, however, the opportunities for biodiversity conservation in the area have expanded. In 2008, the region became a Site of Community Importance (SCI) as part of the Natura 2000 network, and farmers have applied agri-environment schemes as part of the EU Common Agricultural Policy since 2006. Furthermore, the Tarnava Mare region has been the location of several EU and nationally funded projects combining research, practical and information measures. In this article, we review these various instruments from the practical perspective of an NGO that has been working since 2004 to support High Nature Value farmland and rural communities in this region. We focus on three major support measures - agri-environment schemes, Natura 2000, and publicly funded conservation projects - and consider their effects individually and collectively. We conclude that the presence of multiple instruments can have synergistic effects on the conservation of semi-natural open habitats such as HNV farmland, and that this overlap provides a certain amount of resilience: if one instrument fails, another may fill the gap. Cross-cutting projects combining research with activities to tackle the “problem” of the socio-economic undesirability of low-intensity farming as well as the “symptom” of the loss of HNV farmland are also particularly important in this context.
Na območju Tarnava Mare v južni Transilvaniji najdemo ekstenzivno polnaravno odprto krajino, ki se ohranja predvsem z nizko intenzivnim kmetijstvom, ki je splošno razširjeno v Romuniji in številnih drugih območjih v vzhodni Evropi. Ogroženost teh vrstno bogatih habitatov se v zadnjih letih povečuje zaradi intenziviranja kmetijstva in opuščanja obdelovanja kar je v veliki meri povezano z vstopom Romunije v EU leta 2007. Obenem pa so se na tem območju povečale možnosti za ohranjanje biodiverzitete. V letu 2008 je regija postala območje pomembno za skupnost (SCI) kot del omrežja Natura 2000 in kmetje so se vključili v kmetijsko- -okoljske sheme kot del skupne kmetijske politike EU od leta 2006. Dodatno so v regiji Tarnava Mare izvajali številne evropske in nacionalne projekte v kombinaciji z znanstvenimi raziskavami, praktičnimi ukrepi in osveščanjem. V članku predstavljamo različne praktične inštrumente z vidika NVO, ki podpira kmetijstvo z visoko vrednostjo narave (HNV) od leta 2004 in podeželsko skupnost v tej regiji. Osredotočili smo se na tri glavne podporne ukrepe - kmetijsko-okoljske sheme, Naturo 2000 in javno financirane naravovarstvene projekte in preučili njihove posamične in skupen učinek. Zaključimo lahko, da imajo lahko številni inštrumenti sinergistične učinke na varstvo pol naravnih odprtih habitatov, kot je na primer kmetijstvo z visoko vrednostjo narave (HNV). To prekrivanje ukrepov zagotavlja določeno odpornost, saj če en inštrument ni uspešen, ga lahko nadomesti drugi. Interdisciplinarni projekti, ki združujejo raziskave z dejavnostmi, ki rešujejo probleme socio-ekonomske nezaželenosti kmetovanja z nizko intenzivnostjo in zmanjševanja kmetovanja z z visoko vrednostjo narave (HNV) so še posebej pomembni v tem okviru.
The landscape and biodiversity of the Saxon villages of southern Transylvania comprise a remarkable fragment of an older Europe, where species-rich plant and animal communities thrive alongside ...traditional agriculture. Not only are the wildflower meadows, probably the best that survive in lowland Europe, a living link with medieval times, but they are also a genetic resource of forage crops, especially legumes. Within Romania, many of the plants, animals and habitats of the region are not particularly rare or threatened, but from a European perspective their survival in such substantial numbers and extent considerably alleviates their loss elsewhere. Rarity may not always be the best criterion for assessing conservation needs, and a holistic approach is required to conserve this ecosystem in its geographical, cultural and biological entirety. To this end, a consortium of conservation NGOs, in conjunction with the Government of Romania, is working towards the establishment of a Nature Park or similar protected area to conserve traditional villages, countryside and biodiversity. Organic and non-intensive mixed farming, eco-tourism and promotion of village crafts and skills are vital components of the complex jigsaw of sustainable development.
Australia's Great Western Woodlands are the largest intact temperate woodland ecosystem on Earth, spanning an area the size of the average European country. These woodlands are part of one of the ...world's biodiversity hotspots and, despite subsisting on just 200–400 mm of rainfall a year, can store considerable amounts of carbon. However, they face growing pressure from a combination of climate change and increasingly frequent and large wildfires, which have burned over a third of these slow-growing, fire-sensitive woodlands in last 50 years alone. To develop conservation strategies that bolster the long-term resilience of this unique ecosystem, we urgently need to understand how much old-growth woodland habitat remains intact and where it is distributed across this vast region. To tackle this challenge, we brought together data from an extensive network of field plots distributed across the region and combined this with information on vegetation 3D structure derived from drone, airborne and spaceborne LiDAR. Using this unique dataset, we developed a novel modelling framework to generate the first high-resolution maps of woodland tree size and age structure across the entire region. We found that 41.2% of the woodland habitat is covered by old-growth stands, equivalent to an area of approximately 39,187 km2. Only 10% of these old-growth woodlands fall within current protected areas managed by the state government. Instead, most remaining old-growth woodlands are found either within the Ngadju Indigenous Protected Area (26.9%) or outside of formal protected areas on leaseholds and privately owned lands (57.2%). Our maps of woodland size and age structure will help guide the targeted management and conservation of the Great Western Woodlands. Moreover, by developing a robust pipeline for integrating LiDAR data from multiple platforms, our study paves the way for mapping the 3D structure and carbon storage of open and heterogeneous woodland ecosystems from space.
•Novel framework fusing drone, airborne and satellite LiDAR for large-scale mapping.•Fires have burned 39% of the world’s largest temperate woodland in just 50 years.•Old-growth woodlands still cover 41% the region, equivalent to 38,715 km2.•Only 10% of old-growth woodlands are in protected areas managed by the government.
Organization of two independent kisspeptin systems derived from evolutionary-ancient kiss genes in the brain of zebrafish Servili , A. (Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueInstitut Fédératif de Recherche - Génétique Fonctionnelle Agronomie et SantéUniversité de Rennes 1, Rennes(France). UMR 6026); Le Page , Y. (Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueInstitut Fédératif de Recherche - Génétique Fonctionnelle Agronomie et SantéUniversité de Rennes 1, Rennes(France). UMR 6026); Leprince , J. (Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche MédicalePlate-Forme Régionale de Recherche en Imagerie Cellulaire de Haute-NormandieInstitut Fédératif de Recherche 23 - Multidisciplinaires sur les PeptidesUniversité de Rouen(France). U982) ...
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