Tropical Conservation

A. Alonso Aguirre is 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.

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