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Foxes. Animal Planet : Pets, Wild Animals, Dog Breeds, Cat Breeds. Wildlife Conservation Trust - An international charity saving species from extinction. SEDAC - Last of the Wild: Home. Introduction Human influence is a global driver of ecological processes on the planet, on par with climatic trends, geological forces, and astronomical variations.
The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) at Columbia University have joined together to systematically map and measure the human influence on the Earth’s land surface today. The Last of The Wild, Version Two depicts human influence on terrestrial ecosystems using data sets compiled on or around 2000. Spatial Resolution and File Format Global Data: Available in geographic coordinate system at 30 arc-second grid cell size, and Interrupted Goode Homolosine Projection (IGHP) at 1km grid cell size Continental-Level Data: Subsets of the global data, available only in geographic coordinate system Format: Grid data available in ArcInfo grids and .BIL files; vector data available in shapefiles.
Classics. The camera trap revolution: how a simple device is shaping research and conservation worldwide. This article is available for a limited time on mongabay.com. It has also been published in a book by mongabay journalist, Jeremy Hance: Life is Good: Conservation in an Age of Mass Extinction. The book is also available in Europe. This is an expanded version of an article that ran on Yale e360 on December 5th, 2011: Camera Traps Emerge as Key Tool in Wildlife Research. A camera trap sits precariously between two forest elephants. I must confess to a recent addiction: camera trap photos. Although the majority of camera trap photos are bleary, fuzzy or simply show parts of an animal rather than the whole, some camera trap photos are on a par with the best in wildlife photography, capturing one thing that is truly difficult for photographers: a palpable sense of intimacy. But as mesmerizing as camera photos are, they serve a purpose beyond the aesthetic.
It must be noted that camera trapping is not new. The technology was even behind the discovery of a few new species. What’s out there? SDZ Global Wildlife Conservancy Home. The Vincent Wildlife Trust. ECNC Home - Expertise centre for biodiversity and sustainable development. Clearing the way for Europe's wildlife. 1. October 2010 EuroNatur: Fragmentation of landscapes? New studies demonstrate alternatives Press Release from October 1, 2010 Radolfzell. In cooperation with international experts for wildlife protection, the nature heritage foundation EuroNatur demonstrates in a current study how the negative impacts on wildlife and their habitat through the fragmentation of landscapes can be avoided. In view of the rapid expansion of road and transport networks, especially in Central and Southeast Europe, the subject of landscape fragmentation is ever more urgent.
"The best would be to already plan roads and railway lines in such a way that they give wildlife corridors a wide berth", demands EuroNatur director Gabriel Schwaderer. Background:The manual has been developed within the scope of the project "Trans-European Wildlife Networks", promoted by the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt DBU, one of Europe's largest foundations promoting innovative and exemplary environmental projects. IberiaNature - A guide to Spain: environment, geography, nature, landscape, climate, culture, history, rural tourism and travel. Animals - Animal Pictures - Wild Animal Facts - Nat Geo Wild. LPN. European Commission. Cookies This site uses cookies to offer you a better browsing experience.
Find out more on how we use cookies and how you can change your settings. European Commission Environment Accessibility tools Go to content Service tools Language selector Current language: English (en) Navigation path High level navigation Page navigation Additional tools Natura 2000 network What is Natura 2000 ? Natura 2000 is the centrepiece of EU nature & biodiversity policy. Natura 2000 applies to Birds Sites and to Habitats Sites, which are divided into biogeographical regions. The Natura 2000 Barometer gives updated statistical information on the progress in establishing the Natura 2000 network, both under the Birds and the Habitats Directives. On these pages, you can find out more about the management of Natura 2000 sites, how Natura 2000 is financed and about the Geographic Information System for Natura 2000.
Frequently asked questions about Natura 2000 Building Natura 2000. The Dragonfly Woman. Happy new year everyone! This year New Year’s Day also happens to be Science Sunday, so I’m going to start 2012 off with a science filled post. Woo, science! :) Every now and then, I’ll get an e mail from someone during the dragonfly swarming season telling me a story of how the writer walked outside and had a dozen or so dragonflies follow him/her closely as he/she walked.
Most of the people who have this experience think it’s rather magical, but it’s unexpected and they want to know what’s going on. Happily, this behavior has actually been covered in the scientific literature! So, I’m going to start the new year by discussing a paper that deals with this interesting behavior that was released in the odonate science journal Odonatologica in 2010, authored by O and J Holusa of the Czech Republic. A similar behavior called accompanying has been documented by a few odonate researchers. The authors made a few conclusions. Literature Cited: O. Like this post? Like this: Like Loading... European Environment Agency. Wildlife. Council of Europe. Nature Ecological Networks and Emerald Network The pace of biodiversity decline is quickening worldwide. Habitat break-up, pollution, over-use of natural areas and the creation of artificial landscapes increase the rate of erosion, while reducing species' opportunity for migration, dispersion and exchange.
How and by what means can this situation be put right? In 1995, the European Ministers of the Environment meeting in Sofia, launched the Pan-European Biological and Landscape Diversity Strategy (PEBLDS), so as to strengthen environment and biodiversity conservation policies. They called “for the promotion of nature protection, both inside and outside protected areas, by implementing the European Ecological Network, a physical network of core areas and other appropriate measures, linked by corridors and supported by buffer zones, thus facilitating the dispersal and migration of species” (PEBLDS). Emerald Network Group of Experts on Protected Areas and Ecological Networks.