Alexis Symonds

ORCID: 0000-0003-0139-3937
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Research Areas
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Archaeology and Rock Art Studies
  • Ecology and biodiversity studies
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Economic and Environmental Valuation
  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Biodiversity
  • Environmental Education and Sustainability

South African National Parks
2013-2020

Resource harvesting is permissible within South African protected areas under certain conditions as part of benefit sharing that seeks to strengthen relationships with communities living adjacent parks. However, not all resource use authorised and little currently known about what harvested, or the extent impacts in This limits capacity monitor set boundaries for such use. paper provides a checklist resources harvested each 19 national parks managed by National Parks. Data were gathered...

10.4102/koedoe.v55i1.1096 article EN cc-by Koedoe 2013-02-20

Monitoring is an essential component of measuring the performance protected areas. This requirement led to development a biodiversity monitoring system for South African National Parks (SANParks). The comprises ten major programmes, each focusing on core area conservation monitoring, with resource use being one focal With growing appreciation importance natural resources socio-economic well-being communities and other stakeholders, sustainable important management areas national parks. To...

10.4102/koedoe.v61i1.1516 article EN cc-by Koedoe 2019-01-28

A mopane worm (Imbrasia belina) harvesting project in the Kruger National Park (KNP) was used as a case study to test whether conservation related benefit sharing has net positive impact on multiple dimensions of human well-being. Furthermore, assessed and what degree, such benefits influenced local perceptions conservation, requirement for sustainability protected areas across globe. The involved 263 people from 16 villages, adjacent KNP, 4,688 L worms contributing equivalent over half...

10.4103/cs.cs_19_37 article EN Conservation and Society 2020-01-01

Resource harvesting is permissible within South African protected areas under certain conditions as part of benefit sharing that seeks to strengthen relationships with communities living adjacent parks. However, not all resource use authorised and little currently known about what harvested, or the extent impacts in This limits capacity monitor set boundaries for such use. paper provides a checklist resources harvested each 19 national parks managed by National Parks. Data were gathered...

10.4102/koedoe.v55i1.1096-1 article EN cc-by Koedoe 2013-05-30
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