Migratory Connectivity and the Conservation of Migratory Animals
Migration is the repeated seasonal movement to and from a breeding area. The linking of individuals or populations of a given species within its range, including its breeding, migration, and wintering areas, is known as migratory connectivity. In this Article, we discuss how new technologies and approaches are enhancing our knowledge of migratory connectivity, which in turn can improve our legal and policy approaches to the conservation of migratory animals. Advances in studying and documenting migratory connectivity require new approaches to the design and implementation of both domestic and international conservation efforts. Understanding migratory connectivity of different populations of species between specific geographic locations can also help build “social connectivity” for conservation—the cultural, educational, economic, and institutional linkages between these same locations that are a necessary foundation for effective and sustainable conservation efforts.
The inter‐American convention for the protection and conservation of sea Turtles
This report has been prepared by the IAC Scientific Committee Working Group on Nesting Trend Analysis and recommends that it be used to guide the selection of index sea turtle nesting sites in the IAC region. The goals of this document are: (1) to provide a justification for using real nesting numbers rather than ranges in nesting abundance in the IAC Annual Reports, (2) provide guidelines for selecting IAC index nesting sites that will be used in Annual reports, and (3) provide considerations for annual data collection on nesting females at each index beach.
A Rapid Method for the Extraction of Radioiodide from Urine
THE extraction of radioiodide from urine is important in radioiodide therapy, since without it the large quantities of highly radioactive urine which accumulate must be stored until the activity decays sufficiently to allow disposal.