scholarly journals The Queen Elizabeth National Park Bird Observatory: a new avian research project in Uganda

1997 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-104
Author(s):  
Tim Lewin
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
Research Project

Encountering Space, Places and Memories in Australian Landscapes

2007 ◽  
Vol 124 (1) ◽  
pp. 166-176
Author(s):  
Francesca Veronesi ◽  
Petra Gemeinboeck
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Sound Installation ◽  
Spatial Exploration ◽  
Spontaneous Exploration ◽  
Relational Qualities ◽  
Location Sensing ◽  
Opening Up

Mapping Footprints: Lost Geographies in Australian Landscapes is a research project in development that explores the relational qualities of places and contemporary perceptions of geography. It reflects on new mapping technologies that have the capacity to reinstate relations between subjects and places via a spatial exploration that engages with inventive and specific uses of location sensing technologies informed by physical and cultural contexts. The Elvina rock engravings in Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park are the site of a location-sensitive sound installation in which we integrate the specificities of landscape with a navigational medium. A sonic map is overlayed over the physical terrain, opening up the site as a place embedded with memories, creating the potential for spontaneous exploration and new understandings of place. The ‘map’ in Mapping Footprints is composed from the geographical narration of the cartographers’ exploration across Indigenous mediascapes.

scholarly journals Traditional Communities and Mental Maps: Dialogues between Local Knowledge and Cartography from the Socioenvironmental Atlas of Lençóis Maranhenses, Brazil

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 755
Author(s):  
Benedito Souza Filho ◽  
Reinaldo Paul Pérez Machado ◽  
Kumiko Murasugi ◽  
Ulisses Denache Vieira Souza
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Local Knowledge ◽  
National Park ◽  
Animal Husbandry ◽  
Northeastern Brazil ◽  
Mental Maps ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Economic Diversity ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Traditional Communities

The Lençóis Maranhenses region, located in the state of Maranhão in northeastern Brazil, constitutes an area that includes a national park and presents extreme physical, geographic and climatic contrasts in addition to economic diversity and emerging tourism. Scattered throughout this portion of the Brazilian territory are local inhabitants whose traditional lifestyles are characterized by agricultural, extractive, fishing and animal husbandry activities. These local residents use guidance systems and mental maps developed through their long history, interaction with nature, and knowledge of the environment in which they live and work. Based on sketches prepared by residents and by Health Agents serving the communities, and with the support of cartographic-based materials produced by the team of the Socioenvironmental Atlas of Lençóis Maranhenses (ASALM, Portuguese abbreviation for Socioenvironmental Atlas of Lençóis Maranhenses), we present a set of digital and interactive cartographic materials that reproduce the movements, uses and practices of the families of these communities as well as the environmental dynamics of this vast region. Such cartography can serve as an instrument of planning, understanding and action, both to safeguard the rights of the local residents and for the handling and management of natural resources. Based on the dialogue between local knowledge and cartography, we present the methods, processes and results of our research project.

scholarly journals Architectural Preservation Internship Report Grand Teton National Park

2012 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 158-159
Author(s):  
Caroline Engel
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
Primary Research ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Historical Society ◽  
Grand Teton National Park ◽  
Jackson Hole ◽  
History Of ◽  
Architectural Preservation

As an architectural preservation intern at the Grand Teton National Park, I worked on a number of projects over the summer of 2012. The primary research project that spanned the two months was an investigation into the history of the Upper Granite Patrol Cabin. Questions had been raised by my supervisors Katherine Longfield and Betsy Engel as to what purpose the original cabin had been built, with reason to believe it may have been built as a poacher’s cabin. Using resources within the GTNP, the Jackson Hole Historical Society, and research on similar building types, I determined that the cabin was not likely to be a poacher’s cabin, but was most likely to be an early ranger’s patrol cabin, built before

scholarly journals The Tsavo Research Project

Oryx ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 355-361
Author(s):  
R. M. Laws
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
National Park ◽  
Research Programme ◽  
Habitat Destruction ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Peripheral Areas

Dr Laws was the first Director of the Tsavo Research Project. This was started in February 1967 to investigate the habitat destruction in the Tsavo National Park, in Kenya, and the part played by the elephants which had been increasing rapidly—the research team's estimate was 23,000 in the park with an additional 12,000 in the peripheral areas, a total of 35,000 ± 7,000. After nine months the research programme, which included sample kills of elephants, was interrupted by the National Parks. Dr Laws spent the next eight months trying to restart the work and to discuss his findings and proposals; no discussions took place and he resigned. The article here consists of part of a paper (slightly amended by Dr Laws) published in the Journal of Reproduction and Fertility, Supplement No 6, 1969, and reproduced by permission. It explains why he regards the sample cropping as essential to find out what is happening in the elephant populations, and whether they are regulating their numbers quickly enough to save the habitat. Since Dr Laws left the Tsavo in June 1968, the Research Project has been carried on under the direction of the Botanist Warden, Dr P. E. Glover, an article by whom appeared in the September ORYX, page 323; a comment on this by Dr Laws will appear in the next ORYX, May 1971.

scholarly journals The Tsavo and the Elephants

Oryx ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 323-325 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. E. Glover
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
Research Programme ◽  
Ford Foundation ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Considerable Controversy ◽  
May 1968

In 1966 the Ford Foundation made a grant of £78,000 to finance a three-year research project in the Tsavo National Park in Kenya. The big problem to be investigated was the vast and increasing numbers of elephants which were said to be destroying the park by their wholesale destruction of trees. A research programme was started, involving the killing of large numbers of elephants. This aroused considerable controversy, and in May 1968 the Director and a research ecologist resigned. Research has, however, continued under the direction of the author, who is Botanist Warden, aided by a zoologist, both of whom joined the project later in 1968, and a count of the elephants in 1969 showed that they had not increased at all since 1965. Dr Glover's account of the work that is being done, the findings so far, and the changes in the park itself explains why it is important that the work should continue, and for this new funds must be found.

scholarly journals The Education of Young Orang-Utans to Living in the Wild

Oryx ◽  
1963 ◽  
Vol 7 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 108-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Harrisson
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Research ◽  
National Park ◽  
Research Project ◽  
In The Wild

An experimental research project is being carried out at Bako National Park in Sarawak to devise means by which young orphaned orang-utans can be re-established to wild living.

scholarly journals The Tsavo Elephants

Oryx ◽  
1971 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. M. Laws
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Additional Note

In the December 1970 Oryx we published an article by Dr Laws on his elephant research in the Tsavo National Park. This was written in 1968, and in this additional note he summarises the findings of later research, both by him and by other research workers, which support its conclusions, and also comments on the article by Dr P. E. Glover, Botanist Warden of the Tsavo Research Project, published in the September 1970 Oryx.

scholarly journals Prairie Dog Dispersal and Habitat Preference in Badlands National Park

1983 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 5-9
Author(s):  
R. Cincotta ◽  
R. Hansen ◽  
D. Uresk
Keyword(s):  
Habitat Selection ◽  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Habitat Preference ◽  
Environmental Variables ◽  
National Park ◽  
Cynomys Ludovicianus ◽  
Prairie Dog ◽  
Management Decisions ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Badlands National Park

The objective of the research project is to create a conceptual model of blacktailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus) town ecology which provides information concerning habitat selection in terms of vegetation and soils along the periphery of Badlands National park. The study is designed, as well, to produce information on expansion and reinvasion rates along eradicated town edges, and to document the effect of this rodent upon range conditions in these areas. The study is presently in its 3rd and final year of research. The following report outlines an experiment which was designed to test a model which explains town expansion based upon some rather simple environmental variables. Though it will, no doubt, fall far short of explaining dispersal activities, the model provides a framework upon which management decisions can be based.

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