Sumários
Management of wildlife species: red deer as a case study
15 Outubro 2025, 10:15 • Miguel Nuno do Sacramento Monteiro Bugalho
1. Management of wildlife species. Wildlife population trends. Effects of land-use changes on wildlife populations. Determinants of wildlife population growth: fecundity rates, mortality rates, population dispersal. Other limiting factors: predation and competition. The management of wildlife species and multiple use.
Payment for ecosystems services: the Green Heart of Cork case study
9 Outubro 2025, 09:00 • Miguel Nuno do Sacramento Monteiro Bugalho
Payments for ecosystem services: What are payments for ecosystem services? Payments for ecosystem services and wildlife conservation. Case study: the Green Heart of Cork WWF project. Tools for identifying priority areas for biodiversity and ecosystem services.
Forest certification and wildlife conservation
8 Outubro 2025, 10:15 • Miguel Nuno do Sacramento Monteiro Bugalho
Effects of forest certification on wildlife conservation: an example from the tropics. Forest certification and the conservation of biodiversity in cork oak woodlands. Effects of certification on the ecological condition of water streamlines, oak regeneration, understory shrub cover and diversity, bird diversity. Effects on ecosystem services: fire hazard and carbon.
Other conservation tools: beyond Protected Areas
2 Outubro 2025, 09:00 • Miguel Nuno do Sacramento Monteiro Bugalho
Forest certification and payments for ecosystem services. Conservation through wise use. Conservation tools based on the promotion of wise use. The examples of Forest certification and Payment for ecosystem services. The concept of high conservation value forests. Applications.
IUCN wildlife threatening categories
1 Outubro 2025, 10:15 • Miguel Nuno do Sacramento Monteiro Bugalho
IUCN wildlife threatening categories. The concepts of "critically endangered", "endangered" and "vulnerable species". Non-threatening categories. Criteria for defining threatening categories. Examples.