How Does the Endangered Species Restoration Project Benefit the Community?

Abstract

This study thoroughly analyzed how the endangered fox restoration project affects the community, and how much this effect contributes to improving of biodiversity and the recovery of the national ecological axis, which is the final goal of the restoration project. As a result, it was found that prerequisites such as education and promotion for protection of endangered species for local residents and visitors to the national park directly affect the restoration project goal. In addition, as an indirect route, the prerequisites for the restoration project had a positive effect on the local economy, and the regional economic effect was found to have a positive effect on the development of the local community. Finally, it was analyzed that community development contributed to achieving the goal of the restoration project. These results showed that the endangered species restoration project is contributing to the development of the local community by improving the local economy and local awareness and social value by increasing the number of tourists.

Range-Wide Phylogeography and Ecological Niche Modeling Provide Insights into the Evolutionary History of the Mongolian Racerunner (Eremias argus) in Northeast Asia

“…The Mongolian racerunner, Eremais argus, is a small oviparous and heliothermic lizard of the NEA, with a distribution ranging from the coast to the desert in China, Korea, North Korea, Mongolia and Russia, ranging from the arid zone to the humid zones [23][24][25][26]. Except for the population in Korea, which is listed as an endangered species [27,28], and that in North Korea, which has rather limited records, the populations of E. argus in the other three countries are relatively abundant, thus providing an excellent system for evaluating the phylogeographic pattern and investigating the effects of past climatic changes on the demographic history of the terrestrial lizard in the NEA. In addition, E. argus shows considerable intra-specific variation, as two subspecies have been proposed based on morphological characters and putative vicariant events [29]: the nominate form E. argus argus Peters, 1869 (with an eye-like dorsal pattern and more than 50 rows of dorsal scales on the midbody) and E. argus barbouri Schmidt, Animals 2024, 14, 1124 3 of 26 1925 (with a striped dorsal pattern and fewer than 50 scales on the midbody).…”