Financial costs of large carnivore translocations - Accounting for conservation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Weise, Florian J ^a   Stratford, Ken J ^b   Van Vuuren, Rudolf J ^a  

^a Research Department N a'An ku se Research Programme   (Namibia)

^b Research Department Ongava Research Centre   (Namibia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARNIVORE; CHEETAH; COST; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; FITNESS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HYAENA; LEOPARD; NAMIBIA; NONHUMAN; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES TRANSLOCATION; WILDLIFE CONSERVATION; ANIMAL; CARNIVORA; ECONOMICS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYENA; MALE; PANTHERA; PHYSIOLOGY; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT;

ACINONYX; ANIMALS; CARNIVORA; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYAENIDAE; MALE; NAMIBIA; PANTHERA; TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 84940215925     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0105042     Document Type: Article

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