The Conservation Handbook

Research, Management and Policy

William J. Sutherland

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2008
• Print ISBN: 9780632053445
• eBook ISBN: 9780470999349
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Biology
• Index: Biological Sciences

Textbooks on the principles of conservation biology abound. Yet, how does one put this theoretical knowledge into practice? The aim of The Conservation Handbook is to provide clear guidance on the implementation of conservation techniques. The wide range of methods described include those for ecological research, monitoring, planning, education, habitat management and combining conservation with development. Nineteen case studies illustrate how the methods have been applied. The book will be of interest to conservation biology students and practicing conservationists worldwide.

For each copy of the book sold, another copy will be sent free to a practicing conservationist outside Western Europe, North America, Australia, New Zealand and Japan.

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• Foreword by E. O. Wilson.
  
• Concise, practical guide packed full of ideas, methods and advice.
  
• Provides solutions for the main conservation problems most commonly encountered.
  
• 18 global case studies illustrate the application of techniques.
  
• The Conservation Handbook Donations Project
  this book is being sent free to those practising conservationists outside Western Europe, North America, Australia, New Zealand and Japan who are otherwise unlikely to obtain a copy. These copies are provided at cost price by Blackwell Science, the publisher, and paid for with the author''s royalties. Each book sold means another one will be donated.

Table of contents

• Research, Ma agement and Policy
• Contents
• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Assessing iodiversity
• CASE STUDY Southern African frog atlas project
• 3 Setting co servation prio ities
• 4 Monitoring
• BOX 4.1 Estimating populations from point counts and line transects
• BOX 4.2 Population estimates from mark–release–recapture
• BOX 4.3 Population estimates from capture frequency
• 5 Ecological research techniques
• CASE STUDY Estimating the population viability a re-established White-tailed Eagle population
• 6 Diagnosis and prediction
• CASE STUDY The Lord Howe Woodhen: diagnosis and recovery
• 7 Conservation planning
• CASE STUDY The UK Corncrake species action plan
• BOX 7.1 Writing a species action plan
• BOX 7.2 Writing a management plan
• 8 Organisational management and fund raisi g
• 9 Education and ecotourism
• CASE STUDY Conservation stickers on Sumba
• CASE STUDY Public involvement in the conservation of Tiritiri Matangi Island, New Zealand
• CASE STUDY Global Rivers Environmental Education Network (GREEN)
• CASE STUDY Managing tourism in the Antarctic
• 10 Bringing about political and policy changes
• CASE STUDY Water extraction in Mono Lake
• CASE STUDY International collaboration to reduce pesticide poisoning
• CASE STUDY Reducing traffic damage to a roadside reserve
• 11 Species management
• CASE STUDY Brush-tailed Phascogale re-establishment: learning from experiments
• 12 Habitat management
• CASE STUDY Wild nature in the Dutch Oostvaardersplassen
• 13 Exploitation
• CASE STUDY Methods of Moose management in Finland
• CASE STUDY Goose management in North America
• CASE STUDY Anti-poaching strategy to protect the Amur Tiger
• 14 Integrating development and conservation
• CASE STUDY Combining development and conservation in Kilum-Ijim Forest, Cameroon
• 14.4 The project cycle
• CASE STUDY Coral reef and fisheries management in the Philippines
• BOX 14.1 The conceptual model approach to planning projects
• References
• Index