scholarly journals Vaquita Face Extinction from Bycatch. Comment on Manjarrez-Bringas, N. et al., Lessons for Sustainable Development: Marine Mammal Conservation Policies and Its Social and Economic Effects. Sustainability 2018, 10, 2185

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 2161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl Flessa ◽  
Luis Calderon-Aguilera ◽  
Carlos Cintra-Buenrostro ◽  
David Dettman ◽  
Gregory Dietl ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Marine Mammal ◽  
Gulf Of California ◽  
River Flow ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
Conservation Policies ◽  
Illegal Fishing ◽  
Ecological Changes ◽  
Mammal Conservation ◽  
Fishing Practices

We are among the scientists who have documented the environmental and ecological changes to the Upper Gulf of California following the reduction in the Colorado River’s flow. We object to any suggestion that our research supports Manjarrez-Bringas et al.’s conclusion that the decline in the Colorado River’s flow is the reason for the decline in the population of the endangered vaquita porpoise (Phocoena sinus). Manjarrez-Bringas et al.’s conclusions are incongruent with their own data, their logic is untenable, their analyses fail to consider current illegal fishing practices, and their recommendations are unjustified and misdirected. Vaquita face extinction because of bycatch, not because of the lack of river flow.

scholarly journals Lessons for Sustainable Development: Marine Mammal Conservation Policies and Its Social and Economic Effects

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 2185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nahieli Manjarrez-Bringas ◽  
Eugenio Aragón-Noriega ◽  
Luis Beltrán-Morales ◽  
Michael Cordoba-Matson ◽  
Alfredo Ortega-Rubio
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Marine Mammal ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
Conservation Policies ◽  
Mammal Conservation

scholarly journals Reply to Flessa, K.W. et al., Comment on Manjarrez-Bringas, N. et al., Lessons for Sustainable Development: Marine mammal Conservation Policies and Its Social and Economic Effects. Sustainability 2018, 10, 2185—Holistic Socio-Ecological Approach to Promote Integral Public Policies to Preserve an Endangered Species: The Vaquita Marina

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 2163
Author(s):  
Nahieli Manjarrez-Bringas ◽  
Eugenio Alberto Aragón-Noriega ◽  
Luis Felipe Beltrán-Morales ◽  
Michael Victor Cordoba-Matson ◽  
Alfredo Ortega-Rubio
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Endangered Species ◽  
Marine Mammal ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
Ecological Approach ◽  
Conservation Policies ◽  
Mammal Conservation

We really appreciate the valuable comments made by our scientific colleagues Flessa et al [...]

scholarly journals The Impact of Ad-Blocking on the Sustainable Development of the Digital Advertising Ecosystem

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 4039 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janusz Wielki ◽  
Janusz Grabara
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Literature Analysis ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Advertising Industry ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Excessive Number

Despite the rapidly growing expenditure on digital advertising, the effectiveness of the functioning of the digital advertising ecosystem is becoming less and less visible. This is related to the fact that only a small part of the expenditure incurred by organizations on various forms of digital advertising brings the expected results. For several years now, a phenomenon that stifles the effectiveness of the digital advertising ecosystem and deteriorates the ROI (return on investment) of advertisers has been the widespread practice of blocking advertising, known as ad-blocking. In this context, the aim of this article is to analyze the scale of the phenomenon of ad-blocking and its causes in terms of its impact on the effectiveness of the functioning of the digital advertising ecosystem and its sustainable development, which is extremely important from the point of view of the development of electronic commerce. In order to carry out this study, a literature analysis was conducted on the genesis of this phenomenon, its scale, causes, and economic effects. After this stage of research, in order to obtain primary data, a questionnaire survey was conducted on a group of individual Internet users. The results of the research indicated three main reasons for the development of ad-blocking. These are: excessive number of advertisements, their excessive invasiveness, and the mismatch between the advertisements displayed to the user and the user’s interests. In the context of these results and of the continued sustainable functioning of the digital advertising ecosystem, it is essential that the advertising industry be able to offer users alternatives to ad-blocking that they consider valuable from their own point of view and that take the users’ expectations into account.

scholarly journals INTEGRATED AGROECOLOGICAL CONTROL OF WHEAT APHIDS AND CICADES, STANDING FOR ENVIRONMENT-AGRICTURE-SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT INTERRELATION, IN TRANSYLVANIA

1970 ◽  
Vol 62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dana Malschi ◽  
G. Stan ◽  
Felicia Mureşanu ◽  
Elena Nagy ◽  
Maria Ştefănescu
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Integrated Control ◽  
Sustainable Use ◽  
Climatic Warming ◽  
Metopolophium Dirhodum ◽  
Ecological Control ◽  
Ecological Changes ◽  
Present Complex ◽  
Selective Insecticides ◽  
Control Management

The study has like objective, the modernize of integrated control management of aphids and cicades, vectors of wheat yellowishing and dwarf, by optimizing environment-agricture-sustainable development relations. The produced damages on wheat by aphids and cicades, justify the proposed research approaching. Pointed out by as on the last 30 years, the aphids dominante species Sitobion avenae, Schizaphis graminum, Metopolophium dirhodum, Rophalosiphum padi and the cicades: Psammotettix alienus, Macrosteles laevis, Javesella pellucida are registered and well knowed like vectors. Approaching a problem of economical importance and of actual scientific large interest, at national and European level, especially in conditions of profound agro-ecological changes brought by climatic warming and aridity, as the technologic and economic new conditions from agricultural area exploitations, the paper present complex researches, in systemic manner, concerning: knowledge of insects-vectors populations of viruses and micoplasma, which causes the cereals yellowishing, dwarf and nanisme; monitoring and settlement for the risk of this attack extending, with a increase potential, affecting the production of cereal grains cultures and which can causes sowing field compromise, especially of those find in monoculture or those sown early in September; the elaboration of a strategy for integrated agro-ecological control for these insects in Transylvania, through interdisciplinary research about the reductions methods of the attack in function of technological factors: selective insecticides, efficiency economic and ecologic, agro-technical methods and biotic factors: natural entomophagous; environmental protection, conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity.

scholarly journals A machine-learning approach to human footprint index estimation with applications to sustainable development

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick W. Keys ◽  
Elizabeth A. Barnes ◽  
Neil H. Carter
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Sustainable Development Goal ◽  
Conservation Policies ◽  
Human Footprint ◽  
Machine Learning Approach ◽  
Index Estimation ◽  
Ongoing Monitoring

AbstractThe human footprint index is an extensively used tool for interpreting the accelerating pressure of humanity on Earth. Up to now, the process of creating the human footprint index has required significant data and modeling, and updated versions of the index often lag the present day by many years. Here we introduce a near-present, global-scale machine learning-based human footprint index (ml-HFI) which is capable of routine update using satellite imagery alone. We present the most up-to-date map of the human footprint index, and document changes in human pressure during the past 20 years (2000 to 2019). Moreover, we demonstrate its utility as a monitoring tool for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 15 (SDG15), “Life on Land”, which aims to foster sustainable development while conserving biodiversity. We identify countries that are making progress toward SDG15 while also experiencing increases in their ml-HFI. We briefly examine a subset of these in the context of conservation policies that may or may not enable continued progress toward SDG15. This has immediate policy relevance, since the majority of countries globally are not on track to achieve Goal 15 by the declared deadline of 2030. Moving forward, the ml-HFI may be used for ongoing monitoring and evaluation support toward the twin goals of fostering a thriving society and global Earth system.

scholarly journals Cetacean Research and Citizen Science in Kenya

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Gilbert Mwango’mbe ◽  
Jane Spilsbury ◽  
Steve Trott ◽  
Judith Nyunja ◽  
Nina Wambiji ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Citizen Science ◽  
Marine Mammal ◽  
Marine Mammals ◽  
Bottlenose Dolphins ◽  
Conservation Strategies ◽  
Science Data ◽  
Pilot Whale ◽  
Area Of Interest ◽  
Mammal Conservation ◽  
Kenyan Coast

In 2011, several non-governmental and government agencies established the Kenya Marine Mammal Network (KMMN) to provide a platform for the consistent collection of data on marine mammals along the Kenyan coast, identify areas of importance and engage marine users and the general public in marine mammal conservation. Prior to the KMMN, relatively little was known about marine mammals in Kenya, limiting conservation strategies. The KMMN collects data nationwide through dedicated surveys, opportunistic sightings and participative citizen science, currently involving more than 100 contributors. This paper reviews data on sightings and strandings for small cetaceans in Kenya collated by the KMMN. From 2011 to 2019, 792 records of 11 species of small cetaceans were documented. The most frequently reported inshore species were the Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin and Indian Ocean humpback dolphin. Offshore species, included killer whales, short-finned pilot whale and long-snouted spinner dolphin. Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins, long-snouted spinner dolphins, striped dolphins and Risso’s dolphins were recorded through stranding reports. The efforts of the KMMN were disseminated through international meetings (International Whaling Commission, World Marine Mammal Conference), national status reports, outreach and social media. Data has also supported the identification of three IUCN Important Marine Mammal Areas and one Area of Interest in Kenya. Further research is needed to improve estimates of cetacean abundance and distribution, particularly in unstudied coastal areas, and to assess the extent of anthropogenic threats associated with fisheries, coastal and port development, seismic exercises and unregulated tourism. The expansion of the network should benefit from the participation of remote coastal fishing communities, government research agencies, tourism and seismic operations, among others. The KMMN demonstrated the value of dedicated and citizen science data to enhance marine mammal conservation strategies to boost awareness and eco-tourism and to bring the public and science closer together, promoting research and effective conservation efforts.

scholarly journals Fishing Crafts and Gears in Buug, Dumanquillas Bay, Philippines

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Bryan L. Bitantos ◽  
Lovena Grace Amor T. Dela Cruz ◽  
Jay Pril M. Natuil ◽  
Wellmor John R. Sabado
Keyword(s):  
Economic Status ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Marine Resources ◽  
Socio Economic Status ◽  
Illegal Fishing ◽  
Coastal Marine ◽  
Key Informant ◽  
Fish Catch ◽  
Key Informant Interview ◽  
Fishing Practices

Dumanquillas Bay is a body of saltwater and the major source of food located in the Southern Mindanao. It has been observed that marine resources and fish catch in the area are declining. This study assumed that fishing practices affect the decline of marine and fish catch in the bay. A study on the documentation of fishing practices in the area is reported here. Key informant interview (KII), focus group discussion, direct observation and document archival were used. Twenty-three (23) fishing practices were observed in the area. Based on R.A. 10654 or the Philippine Fisheries Code, five (5) fishing practices were identified in the bay which are illegal. These are “pahulbot sa lalum”, “pahulbot sa mabaw”, “panubli”, “panguryente” and “troll” that destroys sea grasses, coral reefs and the sea beds. The illegal fishing practices identified poses a threat to the marine resources. It implies weak implementation of fishing policies among the LGU’s and other concerned government institutions and NGA’s. Capacity building, CEPA campaign and committed implementation of the Philippine Fisheries Code (R.A. 10654) should be implemented by the PAMB and stakeholders in the community to manage the remaining coastal marine resources thereby uplifting the socio-economic status of the coastal community and achieve sustainability.

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