Foreword
Preface: Origins of the Wildlife Trust Alliance
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Part I: Conserving Biodiversity and Ecological Functionality in
Human Dominated Landscapes
1. Introduction: Why Tropical Conservation?
2. Beyond Protected Areas: Defining a New Geography for
Biodiversity Conservation
3. Sustainable Landscapes and Corridors to Conserve Asian Elephants
in India: Successes, Challenges, and Prospects
4. The Use of Selected Species in Landscape Planning and
Restoration of the Atlantic Forest, Brazil
Case Study 1. Howler monkeys as mobile links in human impacted
landscapes
Case Study 2. Considerations for biodiversity conservation in
modern megacities: Lessons from Jakarta, Indonesia
5. Evaluating the Role of Amazon Protected Areas Program and Anti
Deforestation Policies for Supplying Hydropower, Avoiding Carbon
Emissions, and Economic Returns in the Brazilian Amazon
6. Evaluating the Links Between Biodiversity, Land-Use Change and
Infectious Disease Emergence in Tropical Fragmented Landscapes
7. The Impacts of Climate Change on Biodiversity and Ecosystems in
India
Case Study 3. The Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 and the
Aichi Biodiversity Targets
Part II: Resolving Conflicts Between Wildlife and Humans in the
Tropics and Subtropics
8. Southern Andean Human-Wildlife Conflict Resolution: From
Livestock Predation to the Impact of Animal Welfare in the 21st
Century
Case Study 4. The ecological basis of wildlife-human conflicts:
Evidence from the Tropics
Case Study 5. Large carnivores in human-dominated landscapes in
India
Case Study 6. Gorilla-human conflicts in Africa
9. From Threat to Opportunity: Strategies for Bat Conservation
10. Invasive Plants in the Tropics and the Case of Lantana
camara
11. Current Conservation Issues Affecting Dolphins in the
Tropics
Case Study 7. African Manatees: Transboundary challenges and
conservation planning
12. Ecology, Conservation, and Policy Implications of North Pacific
Loggerhead Turtles
Part III: Approaches to Conserving Species: Emerging Lessons and
New Science
13. Species Distribution Models: New Tools and New Approaches for
Managing and Conserving Threatened and Endangered Wildlife in
Ethiopia
14. Integrated Genetic Approaches for the Conservation of Tropical
and Subtropical Species
15. Conservation Genetics, Taxonomy and Management Applications in
Neotropical Deer
Case Study 8. Why Neotropical Forest Ungulates Matter
16. State of the Art Meta-Population Conservation: The Case of the
Black Lion Tamarin
17. Ecology and Conservation of Jaguars in Mexico: State of
Knowledge and Future Challenges
18. Insect Pollinators in Decline: Conservation Challenges in the
Tropics
Case Study 9. Conservation of insects in a marine national park in
Indonesia
Case Study 10. Using beekeeping as a sustainable development
tool
Part IV: Integrating Conservation and Sustainable Use: The
Management of Wild Living Resources
19. The Illegal Wildlife Trade in, from, and through Morocco, a
Gateway to Europe
Case Study 11. The illegal trade in Barbary macaques and the link
to the Moroccan diaspora in Europe
Case Study 12. Detecting poaching from natural populations using
genetic forensic approaches
20. Bushmeat, Food Security, and Conservation in African
Rainforests
21. Successes and Failures of Crocodile Conservation Strategies in
the Asia Pacific
Case Study 13. Edible nest swiftlet management in Indonesia
Case Study 14. A bug for conservation!
22. Conservation and Livestock Production in Tropical Mexico: The
Need for Sustainable Options
Case Study 15. Ecological Services Enhancing Agricultural
Landscapes in Indonesia
23. Conservation as the New Paradigm for Development
Part V: Building Capacity to Sustain Conservation: People,
Institutions, and Networks
24. Innovations in Capacity Building in Conservation and
Sustainability: Linking Theory and Practice and Creating Innovative
Approaches to Education
25. Strengthening Capacity for Biodiversity Conservation in the
Southern Tropical Andes through Partnerships of Educators and
Practitioners
26. Good Governance in Tourism-Conservation Partnerships: Lessons
from Kenya
Case Study 16. Conservation and sustainable tourism in the lower
Rio Negro Basin, Brazil
27. Local and Regional Capacity for Identifying, Predicting and
Responding to Zoonotic Diseases from Free-Ranging Wildlife in
Colombia
28. Challenges to Building and Sustaining Local Non-Governmental
Organizations
Case Study 17. Wildlife Trust of India: Emergence and Establishment
of a National Conservation Action NGO in India
Case Study 18. Building Human Capacity in the Tropics: Experiences
from Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment
29. Afterword: Challenges and Future Directions in Tropical
Conservation
A. Alonso Aguirre is Chair and Associate Professor of Environmental
Science and Policy at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA.
Raman Sukumar is a Professor at the Center of Ecological Sciences
and Divecha Centre for Climate Change in Bangalore, India.
"The book provides a unique and readable exposure to conservation in Latin America, Africa, and Asia and has the potential to become a key resource on the biodiversity conservation crisis in the tropics for university professors, students, researchers, and practitioners in conservation." -- Vojtech Novotny and Katerina Sam, Conservation Biology
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