Local Capacity-building through handicrafts, a way toward the conservation of the critically endangered Great Bustard in IRAN
Poverty and unawareness can be regarded as two very important factors which pushed the Great Bustard into the nationwide extinction vortex in Iran. As stated in the Great Bustard Action Plan for Iran (Naderi, 2017), the very weak economic status of the local communities in the species’ last refugium is a big threat to the …
Brown bears landscape genomics and niche modelling, funded by TUBITAK
Brown bears as keystone species play critical roles in ecosystems through processes such as nutrient cycling, seed dispersal, and regulating prey populations. However, these apex predators have wide ranges and thus severely suffer from habitat fragmentation and anthropogenic activity. Changing movement patterns because of anthropogenic food resources such as open city dumps and severe fragmentation …
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Asiatic black bear’s conservation
The Iranian black bear (Ursus thibetanus gedrosianus) suffers mainly from habitat destruction, conflicts with locals (and some traditional beliefs), habitat fragmentation, and severe isolation of the populations in the southern part of the country. This study has been designed mainly relying on two basics including ecosystem and community. In the first base, we are looking …
