24 research outputs found
Bildung und die „neue“ Sozialdemokratie: eine Analyse aus der Sicht der vergleichenden Staatsausgabenforschung
Social Democrats and Education Spending: A Refined Perspective on Supply-Side Strategies
Investing in human capital? The determinants of private education expenditure in 26 OECD countries
Study Success Policy Patterns in Higher Education Regimes: More Similarities than Differences?
Does Parental Educational Level Predict Drop-out from Upper Secondary School for 16- to 24-year-olds When Basic Skills are Accounted For? A Cross Country Comparison
Market- and government-based higher education reforms in Latin America: the cases of Peru and Ecuador, 2008–2016
Analysis of CO2 adsorption in different lytotypes of lignite
Numerous protected areas (PAs) have been created in Africa to safeguard wildlife and other natural resources. However, significant threats from anthropogenic activities and decline of wildlife populations persist, while conservation efforts in most PAs are still minimal. We assessed the impact level of the most common threats to wildlife within PAs in tropical Africa and the relationship of conservation activities with threat impact level. We collated data on 98 PAs with tropical forest cover from 15 countries across West, Central and East Africa. For this, we assembled information about local threats as well as conservation activities from published and unpublished literature, and questionnaires sent to long-term field workers. We constructed general linear models to test the significance of specific conservation activities in relation to the threat impact level. Subsistence and commercial hunting were identified as the most common direct threats to wildlife and found to be most prevalent in West and Central Africa. Agriculture and logging represented the most common indirect threats, and were most prevalent in West Africa. We found that the long-term presence of conservation activities (such as law enforcement, research and tourism) was associated with lower threat impact levels. Our results highlight deficiencies in the management effectiveness of several PAs across tropical Africa, and conclude that PA management should invest more into conservation activities with long-term duration