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Coconut crabs Birgus latro are listed as vulnerable by the IUCN due to habitat conversion and fragmentation as well as direct exploitation for human consumption. Here, we document the distribution of coconut crabs in 81 coastal wards (shehia) across the island of Unguja, Zanzibar, and its outlying islets using standardised interviews and night‐time fieldwork. Coconut crabs are mostly absent from the...
Coastal environments worldwide are going to be affected by climate change impacts in the future. These environments are densely populated especially in Africa and thus such impacts as rising sea level, increase in extreme storms and natural hazards, will have a bearing on local, regional and national levels. This research looks at environmental change, both past and current, on the east coast of Zanzibar,...
The evaluation of landscape services essentially deals with the complex and dynamic relationships between humans and their environment. When it comes to landscape management and the evaluation of the benefits these services provide for our well-being, there is a limited representation of stakeholder and intangible values on the land. Stakeholder knowledge is essential, since disciplinary expert evaluations...
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