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Conservation planning in Maputaland

Current projects
Planning the return of the big game to the Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany Hotspot
Strengthening and mainstreaming the Maputaland systematic conservation planning system
Developing conservation planning systems for the Chimanimani, Greater Limpopo and Lubombo Transfrontier Conservation Areas
Previous projects
Transnational
conservation planning in the Maputaland Centre of Endemism of Southern
Africa
Partners
Ezemvelo KwaZulu-Natal Wildlife
National Directorate of Conservation Areas, Ministry of Tourism, Mozambique
University of KwaZulu-Natal
Universidade Eduardo Mondlane
Publications
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Shannon, G, Matthews, WS, Page, BR, Parker, GE and Smith, RJ (2009). The affects of artificial water availability on large herbivore ranging patterns in savanna habitats: a new approach based on modelling elephant path distributions. Diversity and Distributions, 15, 776-783. |
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Smith, RJ, Easton, J, Nhancale, BA, Armstrong, AJ, Culverwell, J, Dlamini, S, Goodman, PS, Loffler, L, Matthews, WS, Monadjem, A, Mulqueeny, CM, Ngwenya, P, Ntumi, CP, Soto, B and Leader-Williams, N (2008). Designing a transfrontier conservation landscape for the Maputaland centre of endemism using biodiversity, economic and threat data. Biological Conservation, 141, 2127-2138. |
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Smith, RJ, Goodman, PS and Matthews, WS (2006). Systematic conservation planning: a review of perceived limitations and an illustration of the benefits using a case study from Maputaland, South Africa. Oryx, 40, 400-410. |
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Smith, RJ & Leader-Williams, N (2006). The Maputaland Conservation Planning System and Conservation Assessment.
Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, Canterbury, UK. |
Donors
The Darwin Initiative
US Fish & Wildlife Service Rhinoceros Program
Panthera Kaplan Graduate Awards
African Wildlife Foundation
Worldwide Fund for Nature
University of Kent
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