The Cost Efficiency of Wild Dog Conservation in South Africa

Aside from Kruger National Park, no other suitable reserves of sufficient size exist in South Africa that will hold a viable population of wild dogs (Lycaon pictus). Consequently, conservation efforts have been focused on creating a metapopulation through a series of wild dog reintroductions into is...

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Published in:	Conservation biology Vol. 19; no. 4; pp. 1205 - 1214
Main Authors:	LINDSEY, P. A., ALEXANDER, R., DU TOIT, J. T., MILLS, M.G.L.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	350 Main Street , Malden , MA 02148 , USA , and 9600 Garsington Road , Oxford OX4 2DQ , UK Blackwell Publishing, Inc 01.08.2005 Blackwell Science Blackwell Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Subjects:	Animal, plant and microbial ecology Applied ecology Biological and medical sciences Conservation conservation areas Conservation biology conservation programs Conservation, protection and management of environment and wildlife Cost benefit analysis Cost efficiency Cost estimates crianza de especies cinegéticas Dogs donor funding financiamiento de donantes Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology funding game ranching Habitat conservation Lycaon pictus Mammalia metapoblación metapopulation Metapopulation ecology Metapopulations National parks Nature conservation Nature reserves Parks, reserves, wildlife conservation. Endangered species: population survey and restocking Population decline population dynamics predation Protected areas Ranches ranching reintroducción reintroduction risk Risk reduction South Africa Vertebrates: general zoology, morphology, phylogeny, systematics, cytogenetics, geographical distribution Wildlife conservation South Africa Africa Fissipedia Carnivora Costs Metapopulation Extensive rearing game ranching Population structure Canis familiaris Reintroduction Vertebrata Lycaon pictus Mammalia Game donor funding Environmental protection
ISSN:	0888-8892, 1523-1739
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