| bovine tuberculosis in ethiopian wildlife. | bovine tuberculosis (btb) is endemic in ethiopian cattle. however, the status of the disease in wildlife populations that often share habitat with livestock is unknown. we screened for btb in wildlife in five regions in ethiopia. blood and tissue samples from 133 mammals of 28 species were collected from 2006 to 2008. we used a rapid serology test (rt) based on lateral flow technology, and performed culture of lymph node specimens inoculated onto lowenstein-jensen and middlebrook 7h11 media. aci ... | 2010 | 20688681 |
| trophy hunters' willingness to pay for wildlife conservation and community benefits. | in the face of fundamental land-use changes, the potential for trophy hunting to contribute to conservation is increasingly recognized. trophy hunting can, for example, provide economic incentives to protect wildlife populations and their habitat, but empirical studies on these relationships are few and tend to focus on the effects of benefit-sharing schemes from an ex post perspective. we investigated the conditions under which trophy hunting could facilitate wildlife conservation in ethiopia e ... | 2015 | 25736833 |
| incentivizing monitoring and compliance in trophy hunting. | conservation scientists are increasingly focusing on the drivers of human behavior and on the implications of various sources of uncertainty for management decision making. trophy hunting has been suggested as a conservation tool because it gives economic value to wildlife, but recent examples show that overharvesting is a substantial problem and that data limitations are rife. we use a case study of trophy hunting of an endangered antelope, the mountain nyala (tragelaphus buxtoni), to explore h ... | 2013 | 24001054 |