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Changes in Beliefs and Perceptions about the Natural Environment in the Forest-Savanna Transitional Zone of Ghana: The Influence of Religion
No full textThe potential of traditional natural resources management for biodiversity conservation and the improvement of sustainable rural livelihoods is no longer in doubt. In sub-Saharan Africa, extensive habitat destruction, degradation, and severe depletion of wildlife, which have seriously reduced biodiversity and undermined the livelihoods of many people in rural communities, have been attributed mainly to the erosion of traditional strategies for natural resources management. In Ghana, recent studies point to an increasing disregard for traditional rules and regulations, beliefs and practices that are associated with natural resources management. Traditional natural resources management in many typically indigenous communities in Ghana derives from changes in the perceptions and attitudes of local people towards tumi, the traditional belief in super natural power suffused in nature by Onyame, the Supreme Creator Deity. However, this is closely entwined with ecological, demographic and economic factors. Whilst these factors have driven the need to over-exploit natural resources, a situation which threatens the sustainability of community forests including sacred groves, religion has been used to justify such actions. This paper explores changes in tumi and the sustainability of sacred groves in the forest-savanna transitional zone in Ghana. It would confirm that changes in traditional animist beliefs, such as tumi, which informs the worldview of local people and underlies traditional natural resources management, is mainly due to the advances made by Christianity and Islam.Tumi, Sacred Groves, Forest-Savanna Transition, Sustainability, Traditional, Christianity, Islam
Artist Talk - Jasmine Groves
No full textThis is a presentation about my artwork through my college career, and how I plan to move forward as an artist. I understand that I am submitting this past the deadline, this submission is a requirement for my ART 399 (Professional Practices) class
Allenopithecus Lang 1923
No full textAllenopithecus Lang, 1923. Am. Mus. Novit., 87:1. TYPE SPECIES: Cercopithecus nigroviridis Pocock, 1907. COMMENTS: Separated from Cercopithecus by Thorington and Groves (1970:638), Szalay and Delson (1979), and Groves (1989).Published as part of Colin P. Groves, 1993, Order Primates, pp. 243-277 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 262, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.735312
Phalanger pelengensis Tate 1945
No full textPhalanger pelengensis Tate, 1945. Am. Mus. Novit., 1283:3. TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia: Peleng Isl. DISTRIBUTION: Peleng and Sulu Isis (Indonesia). STATUS: Unknown. SYNONYMS: mendeni. COMMENTS: For status see Groves (1987). Flannery et al. (1987) doubted that pelengensis really belongs to Phalanger.Published as part of Colin P. Groves, 1993, Order Diprotodontia, pp. 45-62 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 47, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.735307
Protecting Animals 36: Author Witi Ihimaera
No full textIn this very special episode of Knowing Animals I am joined by beloved New Zealand author Witi Ihimaera. Witi has written many books featuring nonhuman animals. He offers us a non-colonial lens through which to think about the human/nonhuman relationship
The Representativeness of Olea Pollen from Olive Groves and the Late Holocene Landscape Reconstruction in Central Mediterranean
No full textModern pollen spectra are an invaluable reference tool for paleoenvironmental and cultural landscape reconstructions, but the importance of knowing the pollen rain released from orchards remains underexplored. In particular, the role of cultivated trees is in past and current agrarian landscapes has not been fully investigated. Here, we present a pollen analysis of 70 surface soil samples taken from 12 olive groves in Basilicata and Tuscany, two regions of Italy that exemplify this cultivation in the Mediterranean basin. This study was carried out to assess the representativeness of Olea pollen in modern cultivations. Although many variables can influence the amount of pollen observed in soils, it was clear that most of the pollen was deposited below the trees in the olive groves. A rapid decline in the olive pollen percentages (c. 85% on average) was found when comparing samples taken from IN vs. OUT of each grove. The mean percentages of Olea pollen obtained from the archeological sites close to the studied orchards suggest that olive groves were established far from the Roman farmhouses of Tuscany. Further south, in the core of the Mediterranean basin, the cultivation of Olea trees was likely situated ~500–1,000 m from the rural sites in Basilicata, and dated from the Hellenistic to the Medieval period
Murexia Tate and Archbold 1937
No full textMurexia Tate and Archbold, 1937. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 73:335 (footnote), 339. TYPE SPECIES: Phascogale murex Thomas, 1913 (= Phascogale longicaudata Schlegel, 1866).Published as part of Colin P. Groves, 1993, Order Dasyuromorphia, pp. 29-37 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 32, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.735306
Parantechinus Tate 1947
No full textParantechinus Tate, 1947. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 88:137. TYPE SPECIES: Phascogale apicalis Gray, 1842. COMMENTS: Kitchener and Caputi (1988) restricted this genus to P. apicalis.Published as part of Colin P. Groves, 1993, Order Dasyuromorphia, pp. 29-37 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 33, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.735306
Pseudantechinus Tate 1947
No full textPseudantechinus Tate, 1947. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 88:139. TYPE SPECIES: Phascogale macdonnellensis Spencer, 1896. COMMENTS: Separated from Antechinus by Archer (1982:434).Published as part of Colin P. Groves, 1993, Order Dasyuromorphia, pp. 29-37 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 34, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.735306
Saguinus inustus
No full textSaguinus inustus (Schwartz, 1951). Am. Mus. Novit., 1508:1. TYPE LOCALITY: Brazil, Amazonas, Tabocal. DISTRIBUTION: NW Brazil, SW Colombia. STATUS: CITES - Appendix II.Published as part of Colin P. Groves, 1993, Order Primates, pp. 243-277 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 253, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.735312
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