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- Title
Managing human disturbance of wildlife in coastal areas.
- Authors
Wallace, Pip
- Abstract
Human disturbance of wildlife is an under-recognised and under-regulated problem. This article discusses traditional approaches to conservation management in protecting wildlife from disturbance in the context of the New Zealand coastal environment and threatened birds. Limitations and challenges are identified and alternative actions proposed. The key problems are deficiencies in regulation of species disturbance, lack of definition of thresholds of harm that contemplate rarity and conservation status, insufficient comprehensive wildlife conservation planning and the need for innovative planning methods that address species mobility, permeable boundaries and environmental dynamism. Regulatory controls including enforcing setbacks/approach distances through either extended species protection or 'mobile habitat' protection are recommended.
- Subjects
ECOLOGICAL disturbances; WILDLIFE conservation; COASTAL ecosystem health; MARINE habitat conservation; COASTAL biodiversity
- Publication
New Zealand Geographer, 2016, Vol 72, Issue 2, p133
- ISSN
0028-8144
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/nzg.12124