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Conservation planning in Maputaland

Maputaland section

 

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

PDF icon 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.
   
PDF icon 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.
   
PDF icon 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.
   
PDF icon 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