scholarly journals Wild Resources, Harvest Data and Food Security in Nunavut’s Qikiqtaaluk Region: A Diachronic Analysis + Online Supplementary Appendix Table S1 (See Article Tools)

ARCTIC ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
George W. Wenzel ◽  
Jessica Dolan ◽  
Chloe Brown
Keyword(s):  
Wildlife Management ◽  
Food System ◽  
Supplementary Appendix ◽  
Management Board ◽  
Wildlife Use ◽  
Comprehensive Survey ◽  
Wild Resources ◽  
Harvest Data ◽  
Diachronic Analysis ◽  
Harvesting Costs

The security of the Inuit food system is the focus of extreme concern in Nunavut today. Despite this concern, little detailed analysis of the system’s traditional resource component has been done, primarily for lack of comprehensive recent information on harvesting. An exception is the harvest surveys carried out by the Nunavut Wildlife Management Board (NWMB) from 1996 to 2001. This comprehensive survey provides potentially important, albeit temporally limited (five year), information on recent Inuit wildlife use. To overcome this temporal limitation, we compared the NWMB data to information from the Baffin Regional Inuit Association (BRIA) 1980 to 1984 harvest survey for the 13 communities of the Qikiqtaaluk-Baffin Region. Together, these datasets provide two five-year “windows” on wild resource use in Nunavut’s most populous region. This comparison indicates declines in the total volume and per capita availability of wild foods in most communities relative to the early 1980s. We conclude that a partial cause for this change was hunters’ reduced access to monetary resources after the collapse of the European sealskin market (ca. 1983 – 84). When coupled with rising harvesting costs, this change significantly reduced the number of intensively engaged harvesters relative to the region’s growing population.

scholarly journals The impact of hunting with dogs on wildlife harvests in the Bosawas Reserve, Nicaragua

2008 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 211-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
JEREMY KOSTER
Keyword(s):  
Wildlife Management ◽  
Prey Species ◽  
Mammalian Species ◽  
Biosphere Reserve ◽  
Agricultural Landscapes ◽  
Game Species ◽  
Hunting Dogs ◽  
Management Plans ◽  
Harvest Data ◽  
The Impact

SUMMARYAlthough they are used throughout the Neotropics, the impact of dogs on the composition of wildlife harvests has received little systematic attention. In the Bosawas Biosphere Reserve of Nicaragua, indigenous hunters rely heavily on dogs to locate prey. Hunting harvest data over a year-long period in two indigenous Mayangna and Miskito communities indicate that the use of hunting dogs is significantly associated with the harvests of several terrestrial mammalian species. The use of dogs is also a significant predictor of the extent to which the species composition of harvests deviates from Neotropical averages. Although dogs appear to have little effect on the sex profiles of harvested game species, the use of dogs is significantly associated with hunting in agricultural landscapes. From a conservation perspective, the disadvantages of dogs include their indiscriminate pursuit of prey species, including species that hunters would not otherwise pursue. Advantages of dogs include their relative ineffectiveness in pursuits of species that are particularly vulnerable to overhunting, such as primates and white-lipped peccaries (Tayassu pecari). Hunting dogs may be an economical option for many Neotropical societies, and their role in wildlife management plans merits increased attention from conservationists.

scholarly journals Caribou co-management in Nunavut: Implementing the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement

Rangifer ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 303
Author(s):  
Michelle Wheatley
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Knowledge ◽  
Wildlife Management ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Land Claims ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
Or Management ◽  
Management Board ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Territorial Boundaries ◽  
Main Instrument

In 1993 the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement (NLCA) was signed and this lead to the creation of Nunavut in 1999. Under the NLCA caribou and other wildlife in Nunavut are co-managed by government and Inuit. The Nunavut Wildlife Management Board (NWMB) is the main instrument of wildlife management, working with its government and Inuit co-management partners to manage caribou within the principles of conservation outlined in the NLCA, using both west¬ern scientific knowledge and traditional knowledge. When caribou herds cross provincial or territorial boundaries, management boards or management planning committees are established.

scholarly journals Vertebrate diversity at Margalla Hills National Park, Pakistan

2021 ◽  
pp. 237-247
Author(s):  
I Aslam ◽  
R. Yasmeen
Keyword(s):  
Wildlife Management ◽  
National Park ◽  
Habitat Degradation ◽  
Mammalian Species ◽  
Point Count ◽  
Environmental Threats ◽  
Management Board ◽  
Wild Fauna ◽  
The Status ◽  
Point Count Method

The Margalla Hills National Park (MHNP) in Islamabad, Pakistan, is an important site for the conservation of many plants and animals. The present study aimed to determine the status of fauna diversity and richness, and environmental threats to the animals. A field study was conducted and the point count method was used to determine vertebrate diversity. The survey showed that the MHNP is home to 117 species of birds, 27 reptiles (including species such as the saw–scaled viper, Russell’s viper and the Indian cobra) and 30 mammalian species, such as barking deer, wild boar, golden jackal, red fox, Asiatic leopards, monkeys, fruit bats, and pangolins. The results showed a maximum count of 9,076 birds of 117 species belonging to 48 families. According to the Islamabad wildlife management board, one of the unique species, the grey goral (Nemorhaedus goral), has become extinct at the MHNP as no single specimen has been recorded since 2018. It was also been observed, however, that the numbers of the endangered species of common leopard (Panthera pardus) and pangolin (Manis crassicaudata) have increased, possibly due to the wildlife management board’s strategy for conservation. Nevertheless, greater conservation and protection of wild fauna at the MHNP is still needed. During the visits, threats such as habitat degradation, climate change, and over hunting were recorded. Dataset published through GBIF (Doi: 10.15470/hf1s9i)

Doxastic Naturalism and Hume's Voice in theDialogues

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 253-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. M. Lorkowski
Keyword(s):  
Comprehensive Survey ◽  
Naturalistic Interpretation ◽  
New Evidence

I argue that acknowledging Hume as a doxastic naturalist about belief in a deity allows an elegant, holistic reading of his Dialogues. It supports a reading in which Hume's spokesperson is Philo throughout, and enlightens many of the interpretive difficulties of the work. In arguing this, I perform a comprehensive survey of evidence for and against Philo as Hume's voice, bringing new evidence to bear against the interpretation of Hume as Cleanthes and against the amalgamation view while correcting several standard mistakes. I ultimately isolate the interpretation of Philo's Reversal at the end of the Dialogues as of paramount importance, and show how my naturalistic interpretation makes this, and other notoriously difficult passages, unproblematic.

Body and Desire

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raphael A. Cadenhead
Keyword(s):  
Full Range ◽  
The Body ◽  
Gregory Of Nyssa ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ethical Discourse ◽  
Sex And Sexuality ◽  
Diachronic Analysis

Although the reception of the Eastern father Gregory of Nyssa has varied over the centuries, the past few decades have witnessed a profound awakening of interest in his thought, particularly in relation to the contentious issues of gender, sex, and sexuality. The Body and Desire sets out to retrieve the full range of Gregory’s thinking on the challenges of the ascetic life through a diachronic analysis of his oeuvre. Exploring his understanding of the importance of bodily and spiritual maturation in the practices of contemplation and virtue, Raphael Cadenhead recovers the vital relevance of this vision of transformation for contemporary ethical discourse.

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