Partnering with local communities to identify conservation priorities for endangered Grevy's zebra

Biological Conservation

Volumn 142, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1548-1555

  Low, Belinda ^a   Sundaresan, Siva R ^b,c   Fischhoff, Ilya R ^c,d   Rubenstein, Daniel I ^c  

^a Grevy's Zebra Trust   (Kenya)

^b DENVER ZOO   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Capacity building; Citizen science; Community monitoring; Grevy's zebra; Kenya; Pastoralism; Samburu; Savannah ecosystems

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DOMESTIC SPECIES; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GPS; NATURE CONSERVATION; PASTORALISM; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SAVANNA; UNGULATE;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; KENYA; RIFT VALLEY; SAMBURU; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

ANIMALIA; EQUUS GREVYI; EQUUS SUBG. HIPPOTIGRIS;

EID: 67349254998     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2009.02.003     Document Type: Article

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