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Record W2086764983 · doi:10.1525/bio.2011.61.7.4

Wildlife Conservation…in Afghanistan?

2011· article· en· W2086764983 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueBioScience · 2011
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicPolitics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsWildlifeWildlife conservationGeographyWork (physics)North American Model of Wildlife ConservationEnvironmental resource managementEnvironmental planningEcologyEnvironmental scienceBiologyEngineering

Abstract

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Conservation projects multitask in conflict zones, blending development and conservation goals. The reaction we get whenever we speak about our conservation work in Afghanistan is the same: “Wildlife conservation in Afghanistan?” At first, the idea strikes people as strange, perhaps even preposterous. The common perception of Afghanistan is that of a depauperate landscape, largely devoid of wildlife worth saving. And given the many challenges facing Afghanistan, isn't conservation a distraction from the main mission of stabilizing the country, anyway? Surprisingly enough, Afghanistan has a serse array of species, in unique combinations, because of its place in the world. Moreover, instead of being a luxury, biodiversity conservation can contribute to the mission of stabilization. In fact, conservation projects in the Congo, Southern Sudan, and many other conflict zones are being used to develop civil society and sustainable economic opportunities. Afghanistan is but one example of this trend. As a waypoint on the Silk Road, Afghanistan has a long history as a cultural crossroads between East and West. It has an even longer history as a biological crossroads. Afghanistan lies at the intersection of three of the world's biogeographic realms: the Palearctic, Indomalayan, and Afrotropic bioregions. Tigers from East Asia and cheetahs from Africa were until recently part of Afghanistan's biota. Although they disappeared from Afghanistan in the twentieth century, nine other species of cat remain—more than twice the number of those in the United States and Canada combined, in an area about one twenty-fifth the size.

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metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.981
Threshold uncertainty score0.910

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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Opus teacher head0.094
GPT teacher head0.309
Teacher spread0.214 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it