National parks and nature reserves in mountain environments and development

GeoJournal ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
JamesW. Thorsell ◽  
Jeremy Harrison
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
Nature Reserves ◽  
Mountain Environments

Albert Russell ('Bert') Main 1919 - 2009

2011 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 104
Author(s):  
S. D. Bradshaw
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
National Parks ◽  
Nature Reserves ◽  
Three Generations ◽  
Form Part ◽  
Biological Insight ◽  
The Creation

Bert Main (1919?2009)was recognized both nationally and internationally as one of Australia's leading zoologists and a gifted naturalist. His research and ecological teaching on a wide variety of animals, including frogs, reptiles, birds, insects and marsupials, laid the foundations for three generations of graduate students who were inspired by his imagination and biological insight. His foresight and energy as an administrator on government bodies also led to the creation of some of Western Australia's most important National Parks and Nature Reserves that are vital for the preservation of Australia's rich biodiversity and form part of his enduring legacy.

scholarly journals Plume moths in the protected areas of KwaZulu Natal province, Republic of South Africa

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 11-21
Author(s):  
Peter Ustjuzhanin ◽  
Vasiliy Kovtunovich ◽  
Pavel Udovichenko ◽  
Adrian Armstrong ◽  
Alexander Streltzov
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
National Parks ◽  
Nature Reserves ◽  
Kwazulu Natal ◽  
The Republic ◽  
First Time

The article gives 70 Pterophoridae species of nature reserves and national parks of KwaZulu Natal province, Republic of South Africa. New taxonomic combinations are revealed, new data on the distribution of Plume moths in the Republic of South Africa are indicated. New generic combinations were established for two species of Marasmarcha ammonias (Meyrick, 1909) and Sphenarches erythrodactylus (Fletcher, 1911). 7 species are recorded for the first time for the province of KwaZulu Natal.

scholarly journals Erosion and the Hippos

Oryx ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 303-304
Author(s):  
Paul Leyhausen
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
National Park ◽  
Large Population ◽  
River Valley ◽  
Habitat Destruction ◽  
Nature Reserves ◽  
Joint Meeting ◽  
Population Explosion ◽  
Belgian Congo ◽  
River Banks

In recent years several African national parks have been faced with the ‘hippo problem’ — a large population of hippos accused of causing serious erosion and habitat destruction. Should they be culled? Uganda decided yes, in the Rwenzori National Park (formerly Queen Elizabeth); but the Zaire (formerly Belgian Congo) parks have always been regarded as strict nature reserves and no killing has been allowed. However, at a joint meeting of the Survival Service and the National Parks Commissions, at Kinshasa, last September, the question was raised in regard to the Virunga (formerly Albert) National Park. The commissions were asked to advise the Parks Administration on the possible relationship between the hippopotamus population and the erosion of land adjacent to the Semliki, Rutshuru and Rwindi rivers. It had been suggested that a hippopotamus population explosion in recent years was responsible for overgrazing and damage to the river banks, increasing erosion to such a degree that the whole river valley was threatened with denudation and destruction. Should the hippopotamus population be culled? Dr Paul Leyhausen was among the delegates who were able to visit the Virunga park in the course of the IUCN meetings, and in this note records his observations and conclusions on the problem and incidentally gives some idea of the complications of the situation.

Ecological Problems in the Conservation of Plant Communities, with Special Reference to Central Europe

1977 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Medwecka-Kornaś
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
Plant Communities ◽  
Natural Vegetation ◽  
Nature Reserves ◽  
Native Plant ◽  
Vegetation Diversity ◽  
Natural Plant ◽  
Native Plant Species ◽  
Hay Meadows ◽  
Baltic Coast

Exclusion of human interference from national parks and nature reserves commonly results in undesirable successional changes in the vegetation. First of all the semi-natural plant communities, which have been formed and maintained by traditional methods of extensive land-use—mowing, grazing, burning, etc.—are affected. In Poland this has happened, for example, to the halophytic meadows on the Baltic coast, the secondary xerothermic (‘steppe’) grassland in the southern highlands, and the mesic hay-meadows of the forest zones in the Carpathian Mountains. When neither mown nor grazed, they all lose more and more of their typical components, and finally disappear. Many such communities originated hundreds or thousands of years ago and include a number of native plant species which cannot be found in any of the natural vegetation types.The problems of conservation of semi-natural plant communities have been studied by the Author in three representative areas of Southern Poland: in the Gorce Mountains (Western Carpathians), the Niepolomice Forest, and the Ojców National Park near Cracow. In the Gorce Mountains about half the existing major plant communities belong to the semi-natural category and exhibit a much higher species-diversity than the natural forest vegetation (Table I). Similarly, in the northern part of the Niepolomice Forest, many more species are concentrated in the semi-natural, non-forest communities than in natural ones (Table II). For the Ojców area two maps, one of the actual vegetation and another of the expected or ‘potential natural’ vegetation, were compared and the topographic arrangement and successional trends of plant communities established (Table III). It became evident that, if all human impact were to be excluded from the Park, the rich semi-natural plant communities would completely disappear and many of their interesting components would become extinct at least locally.These data, as well as similar observations reported by other authors, explicitly demonstrate that very often the existing vegetation diversity in national parks and nature reserves may be maintained only when the ecological situation has been rightly understood and the proper management adopted.

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