This article highlights the importance of personal hygiene, and presents the risk (and preventing it) from exposure to heat, to solar radiation, extreme cold, atmospheric pollution, venomous animals, mammals and birds, imported animals, and sports.

The increasing popularity of snow-based recreation activities and the development of ski resorts and associated infrastructure have the potential to affect adversely small mammal fauna that over-winter in the subnivean space. We investigated the effects of human activities on the maintenance of the ...

Our objective was to assess the status of the large native rangeland mammals in the eastern and southern African countries focusing on conservation strategies that will benefit the animals, their rangeland habitats, and the people who live in this region. Eastern and southern African rangelands are ...

The global phenomenon of introduced species has caused serious, negative impacts on biodiversity and human productive activities. Often, introduced species become invasive and impact and modifies the availability of resources in native ecosystem. Cattle and wild boar are two species that have been...

Traditional knowledge is the setting up of human-nature relationships, and these relationships can be measured through the cultural value given to each species. Due to the loss of biological and cultural diversity, current management and conservation strategies must necessarily consider the value...

Development of winter outdoor leisure activities in areas of high natural value is a key issue in the sustainable use of mountain environments. Ski touring, an emerging outdoor activity in the Tatra Mountains, is believed to affect protected mammal species such as the Tatra chamois (Rupicapra...

Few wildlife studies have addressed the impacts of ski-run development. Ski-run development appears similar to disturbance caused by clear felling (e.g., increased fragmentation and edge habitats), although the processes of creating ski runs and ongoing disturbance from maintenance and snow...

This study investigated the short-term effects of ski-run development on the dynamics of small mammal populations at Vail Ski Area, Colorado, USA. We compared a new ski run, an experimental ski run with added woody debris, a forest adjacent to a new ski run, and a control forest outside ski...

Human presence exerts complex effects on the ecology of species, which has implications for biodiversity persistence in protected areas experiencing increasing human recreation levels. However, the difficulty of separating the effect on species of human presence from other environmental or...

This paper presents the 2014 health recommendations for travellers. It includes: vaccination against cholera, Japanese encephalitis, tickborne encephalitis, yellow fever, typhoid, seasonal influenza, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, invasive meningococcal disease, rabies, rotavirus, measles and...