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National Monitoring Program for Biodiversity and Non-Indigenous Species in Egypt
UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAM MEDITERRANEAN ACTION PLAN REGIONAL ACTIVITY CENTRE FOR SPECIALLY PROTECTED AREAS National monitoring program for biodiversity and non-indigenous species in Egypt PROF. MOUSTAFA M. FOUDA April 2017 1 Study required and financed by: Regional Activity Centre for Specially Protected Areas Boulevard du Leader Yasser Arafat BP 337 1080 Tunis Cedex – Tunisie Responsible of the study: Mehdi Aissi, EcApMEDII Programme officer In charge of the study: Prof. Moustafa M. Fouda Mr. Mohamed Said Abdelwarith Mr. Mahmoud Fawzy Kamel Ministry of Environment, Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency (EEAA) With the participation of: Name, qualification and original institution of all the participants in the study (field mission or participation of national institutions) 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS page Acknowledgements 4 Preamble 5 Chapter 1: Introduction 9 Chapter 2: Institutional and regulatory aspects 40 Chapter 3: Scientific Aspects 49 Chapter 4: Development of monitoring program 59 Chapter 5: Existing Monitoring Program in Egypt 91 1. Monitoring program for habitat mapping 103 2. Marine MAMMALS monitoring program 109 3. Marine Turtles Monitoring Program 115 4. Monitoring Program for Seabirds 118 5. Non-Indigenous Species Monitoring Program 123 Chapter 6: Implementation / Operational Plan 131 Selected References 133 Annexes 143 3 AKNOWLEGEMENTS We would like to thank RAC/ SPA and EU for providing financial and technical assistances to prepare this monitoring programme. The preparation of this programme was the result of several contacts and interviews with many stakeholders from Government, research institutions, NGOs and fishermen. The author would like to express thanks to all for their support. In addition; we would like to acknowledge all participants who attended the workshop and represented the following institutions: 1. -
The Fourteenth Colony: Florida and the American Revolution in the South
THE FOURTEENTH COLONY: FLORIDA AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION IN THE SOUTH By ROGER C. SMITH A DISSERTATION PRESENTED TO THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA 2011 1 © 2011 Roger C. Smith 2 To my mother, who generated my fascination for all things historical 3 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to thank Jon Sensbach and Jessica Harland-Jacobs for their patience and edification throughout the entire writing process. I would also like to thank Ida Altman, Jack Davis, and Richmond Brown for holding my feet to the path and making me a better historian. I owe a special debt to Jim Cusack, John Nemmers, and the rest of the staff at the P.K. Yonge Library of Florida History and Special Collections at the University of Florida for introducing me to this topic and allowing me the freedom to haunt their facilities and guide me through so many stages of my research. I would be sorely remiss if I did not thank Steve Noll for his efforts in promoting the University of Florida’s history honors program, Phi Alpha Theta; without which I may never have met Jim Cusick. Most recently I have been humbled by the outpouring of appreciation and friendship from the wonderful people of St. Augustine, Florida, particularly the National Association of Colonial Dames, the ladies of the Women’s Exchange, and my colleagues at the St. Augustine Lighthouse and Museum and the First America Foundation, who have all become cherished advocates of this project. -
Caribbean Appeals Appeals by Colony
CARIBBEAN APPEALS including Antigua, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Dominica, East Florida, Grenada, Guiana, Jamaica, Leeward Islands, Montserrat, Nevis, St. Christopher, St. Vincent, Tobago, Tortola, West Florida This preliminary list of appeals was constructed from index entries in the Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series (APC), beginning with the year 1674 and ending with 1783. The focus is on appeals or petitions for leave to appeal with a definite lower court decision. A list by colony and section number of matters indexed as appeals but for which no lower court decision is apparent is provided for each volume of the APC. A smattering of disputes, not indexed as appeals (and so noted in this list), are included if the APC abstract uses appeals language. Prize cases are not included if the matter was referred to the Committee for Hearing Appeals on Prize. Appeals are listed according to the location in the margin note unless otherwise explained. The spelling of the names of parties is accepted as presented in the APC abstracts. Appeals with John Doe or Richard Roe as named parties are treated as if those parties were individuals. Significant doubt about the identity of the respondent(s) results in the designation ‘X, appeal of” as the name of the case. Given the abbreviated nature of the abstracts, additional research in the Privy Council registers, in genealogical records, and on matters of procedure will be needed to clarify the case names throughout and establish their accuracy. If the APC only uses wording such as “petition of John Jones referred,” the action was not assumed to be an appeal. -
Weed Risk Assessment for Vitex Rotundifolia L. F. (Lamiaceae)
Weed Risk Assessment for Vitex United States rotundifolia L. f. (Lamiaceae) – Beach Department of Agriculture vitex Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service June 4, 2013 Version 2 Left: Infestation in South Carolina growing down to water line and with runners and fruit stripped by major winter storm (Randy Westbrooks, U.S. Geological Survey, Bugwood.org). Right: A runner with flowering shoots (Forest and Kim Starr, Starr Environmental, Bugwood.org). Agency Contact: Plant Epidemiology and Risk Analysis Laboratory Center for Plant Health Science and Technology Plant Protection and Quarantine Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service United States Department of Agriculture 1730 Varsity Drive, Suite 300 Raleigh, NC 27606 Weed Risk Assessment for Vitex rotundifolia Introduction Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) regulates noxious weeds under the authority of the Plant Protection Act (7 U.S.C. § 7701-7786, 2000) and the Federal Seed Act (7 U.S.C. § 1581-1610, 1939). A noxious weed is defined as “any plant or plant product that can directly or indirectly injure or cause damage to crops (including nursery stock or plant products), livestock, poultry, or other interests of agriculture, irrigation, navigation, the natural resources of the United States, the public health, or the environment” (7 U.S.C. § 7701-7786, 2000). We use weed risk assessment (WRA)—specifically, the PPQ WRA model (Koop et al., 2012)—to evaluate the risk potential of plants, including those newly detected in the United States, those proposed for import, and those emerging as weeds elsewhere in the world. Because the PPQ WRA model is geographically and climatically neutral, it can be used to evaluate the baseline invasive/weed potential of any plant species for the entire United States or for any area within it. -
Occurrence of Ocypode Cursor (Linnaeus, 1758) (Crustacea, Decapoda) in Salento (Southern Italy)
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE Thalassia Salentina provided by ESE - Salento University Publishing Thalassia Sal. 41 (2019), 47-52 ISSN 0563-3745, e-ISSN 1591-0725 DOI 10.1285/i15910725v41p47 http: siba-ese.unisalento.it - © 2019 Università del Salento GIORGIO MANCINELLI1,2,3*, FRANCESCO BELMONTE4, GENUARIO BELMONTE1,3 1 Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies (DiSTeBA), University of Salento, 73100 Lecce, Italy 2 National Research Council (CNR), Institute of Biological Resources and Marine Biotechnologies (IRBIM), Lesina - (FG), Italy 3 CoNISMa, Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Scienze del Mare, 00196 Roma, Italy 4 via G. Casciaro, 73100 Lecce, Italy * corresponding author: [email protected] OCCURRENCE OF OCYPODE CURSOR (LINNAEUS, 1758) (CRUSTACEA, DECAPODA) IN SALENTO (SOUTHERN ITALY) SUMMARY Ocypode cursor (Linnaeus, 1758) is the only Ocypode species present in the Mediterranean Sea. It is widely distributed in the southern part of the basin (mainly African coast) and only recently it has been reported also from Sicil- ian Ionian sea. The present record is the first for Italian peninsula and the northernmost record of O. cursor in the Mediterranen Sea. INTRODUCTION The tufted ghost crab Ocypode cursor (Linnaeus, 1758) is a semi-terrestrial burrowing brachyuran of nocturnal habits generally found in supratidal and intertidal sandy beaches (STRACHAN et al., 1999). The species is the only member of the family Ocypodidae occurring in the Mediterranean Sea; specifically, it is characterized by a disjoint distribu- tion, comprising the eastern Mediterranean Sea and tropical coasts of the eastern Atlantic Ocean as far south as northern Namibia, with the exclusion of the western Mediterranean. -
Estrogen-Like Activities in Vitex Species from China Determined by a Cell Based Proliferation Assay
ORIGINAL ARTICLES Department of Pharmacognosy1, School of Pharmacy, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China; School of Biomo- lecular Science2, Faculty of Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK Estrogen-like activities in Vitex species from China determined by a cell based proliferation assay Y. Hu1, Q.-Y. Zhang1, T.-T. Hou1, H.-L. Xin1, H.-C. Zheng1, K. Rahman2, L.-P. Qin1 Received February 14, 2007, accepted March 29, 2007 Prof. Lu-Ping Qin, Departement of Pharmacognosy, School of Pharmacy, Second Military Medical Uni- versity, 325 Guohe Road, Shanghai 200433, China [email protected], [email protected] Pharmazie 62: 872–875 (2007) doi: 10.1691/ph.2007.11.7542 Ethanolic extracts of four Chinese medicinally used Vitex species were selected and tested for their estrogen-like activities, using an ERa-positive MCF-7 cell based proliferation assay (E-screen assay) and cell cycle analysis (flow cytometry). Vitex negundo displayed the highest estrogenic-like activity, and could be useful in hormone replacement therapy (HRT). 1. Introduction 2. Investigations, result and discussion Phytoestrogens are plant-derived compounds with estro- In the E-Screen assay using MCF-7 cells, the proliferative genic or antiestrogenic properties (Umland et al. 2000). effect of the extracts relative to that of estradiol (1 nM, They seem to be interesting by their possible use as al- 100%) is expressed as Relative Proliferative Effect (RPE) ternative medicines for treating hormonal disorders such (Fig. 1). The results clearly indicate that the extracts from as in hormone replacement therapy (HRT). Thus, phy- V. rotundifolia and V. negundo were able to significantly toestrogens could be beneficial in treatment of the symp- stimulate MCF-7 cell proliferation at concentrations of toms of menopause and hence help to prevent bone re- 50 mg/mL to100 mg/mL (P < 0.01). -
Vitex Rotundifolia L.F
NEW YORK NON -NATIVE PLANT INVASIVENESS RANKING FORM Scientific name: Vitex rotundifolia L.f. USDA Plants Code: VIRO80 Common names: Roundleaf chastetree, beach vitex, chasteberry, monk's pepper Native distribution: Asia (China, Japan), India, Sri Lanka, Mauritius, Australia, Pacific Islands (inlcuding Hawaii) Date assessed: 3 June 2009; edited August 19, 2009 Assessors: Steve Glenn, Gerry Moore Reviewers: LIISMA SRC Date Approved: August 19, 2009 Form version date: 3 March 2009 New York Invasiveness Rank: High (Relative Maximum Score 70.00-80.00) Distribution and Invasiveness Rank ( Obtain from PRISM invasiveness ranking form ) PRISM Status of this species in each PRISM: Current Distribution Invasiveness Rank 1 Adirondack Park Invasive Program Not Assessed Not Assessed 2 Capital/Mohawk Not Assessed Not Assessed 3 Catskill Regional Invasive Species Partnership Not Assessed Not Assessed 4 Finger Lakes Not Assessed Not Assessed 5 Long Island Invasive Species Management Area Not Present Moderate 6 Lower Hudson Not Assessed Not Assessed 7 Saint Lawrence/Eastern Lake Ontario Not Assessed Not Assessed 8 Western New York Not Assessed Not Assessed Invasiveness Ranking Summary Total (Total Answered*) Total (see details under appropriate sub-section) Possible 1 Ecological impact 40 ( 40 ) 37 2 Biological characteristic and dispersal ability 25 ( 25 ) 20 3 Ecological amplitude and distribution 25 ( 25 ) 4 4 Difficulty of control 10 ( 10 ) 8 Outcome score 100 ( 100 )b 73.00 a † Relative maximum score 73.00 § New York Invasiveness Rank High (Relative Maximum Score 70.00-80.00) * For questions answered “unknown” do not include point value in “Total Answered Points Possible.” If “Total Answered Points Possible” is less than 70.00 points, then the overall invasive rank should be listed as “Unknown.” †Calculated as 100(a/b) to two decimal places. -
Janas in British East Florida
Florida Historical Quarterly Volume 44 Number 1 Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol 44, Article 13 Number 1 & 2 1965 Janas in British East Florida Kenneth H. Beeson, Jr. Part of the American Studies Commons, and the United States History Commons Find similar works at: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq University of Central Florida Libraries http://library.ucf.edu This Article is brought to you for free and open access by STARS. It has been accepted for inclusion in Florida Historical Quarterly by an authorized editor of STARS. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Recommended Citation Beeson, Jr., Kenneth H. (1965) "Janas in British East Florida," Florida Historical Quarterly: Vol. 44 : No. 1 , Article 13. Available at: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol44/iss1/13 Beeson, Jr.: Janas in British East Florida JANAS* IN BRITISH EAST FLORIDA by Kenneth H. Beeson, Jr. HE SEVEN YEARS’ WAR in Europe offically ended in Paris on February 10, 1763, with England actively solving the Anglo- French contest for colonial and commercial supremacy in North America. France was in a state of bankruptcy. Spain, a long standing opponent of England, suffered defeat and consequent loss of colonial territory. Spain had entered the war at a rather late hour, and England quickly captured Havana and Manila. At Paris, Spain suffered the loss of Florida, fishing rights in Newfoundland waters, and lumber rights in Honduras. England became the undisputed mistress of the seas; George III became the leading monarch in Europe; and for the first time the English flag flew from Canada to the Florida Keys. -
National Monitoring Program for Biodiversity and Non-Indigenous Species in Egypt
National monitoring program for biodiversity and non-indigenous species in Egypt January 2016 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS page Acknowledgements 3 Preamble 4 Chapter 1: Introduction 8 Overview of Egypt Biodiversity 37 Chapter 2: Institutional and regulatory aspects 39 National Legislations 39 Regional and International conventions and agreements 46 Chapter 3: Scientific Aspects 48 Summary of Egyptian Marine Biodiversity Knowledge 48 The Current Situation in Egypt 56 Present state of Biodiversity knowledge 57 Chapter 4: Development of monitoring program 58 Introduction 58 Conclusions 103 Suggested Monitoring Program Suggested monitoring program for habitat mapping 104 Suggested marine MAMMALS monitoring program 109 Suggested Marine Turtles Monitoring Program 115 Suggested Monitoring Program for Seabirds 117 Suggested Non-Indigenous Species Monitoring Program 121 Chapter 5: Implementation / Operational Plan 128 Selected References 130 Annexes 141 2 AKNOWLEGEMENTS 3 Preamble The Ecosystem Approach (EcAp) is a strategy for the integrated management of land, water and living resources that promotes conservation and sustainable use in an equitable way, as stated by the Convention of Biological Diversity. This process aims to achieve the Good Environmental Status (GES) through the elaborated 11 Ecological Objectives and their respective common indicators. Since 2008, Contracting Parties to the Barcelona Convention have adopted the EcAp and agreed on a roadmap for its implementation. First phases of the EcAp process led to the accomplishment of 5 steps of the scheduled 7-steps process such as: 1) Definition of an Ecological Vision for the Mediterranean; 2) Setting common Mediterranean strategic goals; 3) Identification of an important ecosystem properties and assessment of ecological status and pressures; 4) Development of a set of ecological objectives corresponding to the Vision and strategic goals; and 5) Derivation of operational objectives with indicators and target levels. -
Burrow Architectural Types of the Atlantic Ghost Crab, Ocypode Quadrata (Fabricius
bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/006098; this version posted July 25, 2014. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. 1 Burrow architectural types of the Atlantic ghost crab, Ocypode quadrata (Fabricius, 2 1787) (Brachyura: Ocypodidae), in Brazil 3 4 WILLIAN T. A. F. SILVA1,2, TEREZA C. S. CALADO1 5 6 1Integrated Laboratories of Marine and Natural Sciences (LabMar), Federal University of 7 Alagoas (UFAL), Avenida Aristeu de Andrade, 452, Farol, CEP 57051-090, Maceió, 8 Alagoas, Brazil. 9 2Current affiliation: Department of Evolutionary Biology (Ecology and Genetics), 10 Evolutionary Biology Center (EBC), Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden. 11 Corresponding author: WTAFS, [email protected] 12 13 Running title: Shapes of ghost crab burrows 14 15 Abstract: A broad range of aspects from paleontology to physiology of the ghost crabs 16 Ocypode quadrata have been studied worldwide. These crabs have been used as ecological 17 indicators of the levels of anthropogenic impacts on sandy beaches. Our aim is to report the 18 variety of burrow architecture types constructed by ghost crabs Ocypode quadrata on 19 beaches of Maceió, Brazil. We found 20 types of burrows that differ in shape (number of 20 axes, number of openings, orientation of blind end, number of branches). The slash-shaped 21 burrows (type C) were the most frequent shape, followed by types K (spiral) and E (Y- 22 shaped). -
2018 Ocean Exploration and Research Program Update (Leonardi)
NOAA Ocean Exploration and Research Program Update Alan Leonardi, Director Ninth Meeting Ocean Exploration Advisory Board Seattle, Washington January 30 – 31, 2018 OceanExplorer.NOAA.gov Overview • FY17 and FY18 Budget Overview • CAPSTONE Accomplishments • International Partnerships • 2017 Engagement Metrics • 2018 Activities . Review of operations to date . What’s next • 2019 and 2020 Outlook OceanExplorer.NOAA.gov FY17 OER Budget by Strategic Categories Science & Technology Admin & HQ $11,654,845 $6,482,702 Outreach & Education Data & Information Management $1,291,438 $1,309,060 Expeditions & Exploration $14,792,065 OceanExplorer.NOAA.gov FY18 OER Budget by Strategic Categories Admin & HQ $1,900,000 Science & Technology $9,800,000 Outreach & Education Data & Information $2,800,000 Management $1,300,000 Expeditions & Exploration $18,200,000 OceanExplorer.NOAA.gov OceanExplorer.NOAA.gov International Partnerships: Samoa ~5,600 km2 of seafloor mapped Scientific Highlights: Mapped extensive uncharted areas around the entire eastern half of Upolu. High resolution maps of the seafloor revealed the dramatically steep slopes off of Samoa as the seafloor quickly drops from 100 meters to over 4,500 meters. Engagement Highlights: Reached nearly 220 individuals through ship tours and presentations in Apia, Samoa. OceanExplorer.NOAA.gov International Partnerships: American Samoa 40,870+ km2 of seafloor mapped Conducted 13 ROV dives Scientific Highlights: Observed deep-sea coral and sponge communities, hydrothermal vents, bottomfish habitats, seamounts, and the water column, including as many as 30 potential new species. Deepwater mapping efforts provided updated bathymetry along the pier at the port of Pago Pago and evaluated change in the crater of the Vailuluʻu submarine volcano. -
The Court of Common Pleas of East Florida 1763-1783
_full_journalsubtitle: Revue d’Histoire du Droit – The Legal History Review _full_abbrevjournaltitle: LEGA _full_ppubnumber: ISSN 0040-7585 (print version) _full_epubnumber: ISSN 1571-8190 (online version) _full_issue: 3-4 _full_issuetitle: 0 _full_alt_author_running_head (change var. to _alt_author_rh): 0 _full_alt_articletitle_running_head (change var. to _alt_arttitle_rh): 0 _full_alt_articletitle_toc: 0 _full_is_advance_article: 0 540 Tijdschrift voor rechtsgeschiedenis 85 (2017) 540-576 Mirow Revue d’Histoire du Droit 85 (2017) 540-576 The Legal History review 85 (2017) 540-576 brill.com/lega The Court of Common Pleas of East Florida 1763-1783 M.C. Mirow Florida International University College of Law, Miami, Florida, USA [email protected] Summary Legal historians have surmised that court records of the British province of East Florida (1763-1783) have been either lost or destroyed. This assumption was based on the poor conditions for survival of documents in Florida and statements made in the secondary literature on the province. Nonetheless, a significant number of documents related to the courts of British East Florida exist in the National Archives (Kew). These materials reveal an active legal culture using English law in a wide range of courts including (1) the Court of Common Pleas; (2) the Court of Chancery; (3) the Court of General Sessions of the Peace, Oyer et Terminer, Assize and General Gaol Delivery; (4) Special Courts of Oyer et Terminer; (5) the Court of Vice-Admiralty; (6) the Court of Ordinary; (7) the General Court; and (8) a District Court. This article studies a portion of the documents related to the Court of Common Pleas to describe the nature of the court’s practice in civil litigation.