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Analysis of the Main Habitat for Siberia Musk Deer (Moschus moschiferus) Restoration in Mt. Odae National Park, Korea (오대산국립공원 지역에 멸종위기종인 사향노루 복원을 위한 주요 서식지 분석에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Yong-Su;Kim, Jong-Taek;Lee, Woo-Shin
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Environmental Restoration Technology
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.91-102
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    • 2008
  • This study was conducted to obtain the basic information about Siberia Musk Deer (Moschus moschiferus), and to establish a conservation area for the replacement of Siberia Musk Deer into Mt. Odea National Park, South Korea. We analyzed the main habitat for Siberia Musk Deer restoration in Mt. Odae National Park, Korea. We recorded Siberia Musk Deers' field signs (i.e., bedding sites, feeding areas, feces and tracks), and habitat variables such as nearest distance to the watercourse, trails, slope, aspect, forest type and land cover etc. from Dec. 2004 to Aug. 2007 in Mt. Jiri, Mt. Seorak, and Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). Rocky areas, ridges, mixed coniferous forest (Red pine and Mongolian oak), southern and southeastern slope, elevation of above 800m, and distance from watercourse shorter than 300m etc. were dominant habitat types of Siberia Musk Deer. Based on the significant habitat types, a proper conservation plan should be prepared for the restoration of habitats in order to reintroduce, and to increase the population of Siberia Musk Deer in Mt. Odea National Park, South Korea. Small population size, and limited ecological data are the major constraints for the establishment of conservation areas. Furthermore, other anthropogenic factors including human activities, poaching, and residential area around the park caused the difficulties to qualify as a conservation area. For the successful establishment of conservation area in the future, it is recommended to conduct a comprehensive ecological research, and to survey human disturbances including their impacts on the habitats of Siberia Musk Deer in the Mt. Odea National Park.

A Study on Aichi Biodiversity Target 11 - Focused on Quantitative Expansion Goals and Qualitative Improvement Goals of Protected Areas - (아이치 생물다양성 목표 11의 이론적 고찰 - 보호지역의 양적 확대 목표와 질적 향상 목표를 중심으로 -)

  • Hong, Jin-Pyo;Shim, Yun-Jin;Heo, Hag-Young
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Environmental Restoration Technology
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    • v.20 no.5
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    • pp.43-58
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    • 2017
  • This study aims to provide basic understanding for evaluating the quantitative and qualitative progress of national protected areas, through the theoretical review of Aichi Biodiversity Target 11 in order to comply with recommendations of international community and to conserve biodiversity. As a result of the study, Aichi Biodiversity Target 11 sets out the specific contents that the Parties should achieve for protected areas by identifying them as temporal and spatial goals. The temporal goal, the time schedule for achieving the goal, is 2020, and the spatial goal is divided into quantitative expansion goals and qualitative improvement goals. The quantitative expansion goals present the target coverage of protected areas separately terrestrial and marine. The qualitative improvement goals include the target areas for conservation and five conservation considerations. The conservation targets focus on the important areas with regard to biodiversity and ecosystem services. The five conservation considerations mean effective management, equitable management, ecological representativeness, connectivity, and integration into the landscape and seascape for protected areas. Finally, it suggests that two tracks of protected areas and other effective area-based conservation measures(OECMs) should be used as conservation measures to build an integrated system. The results of this study can be applied to quantitative and qualitative evaluation methods for protected areas and it can contribute to achieve quantitative expansion goals and qualitative improvement goals for them.

Deterioration Diagnosis and Evaluation of Physical Properties in the Dinosaur Footprint Fossils in Cheongsong Sinseongri, Korea, for the Conservation Plans (보존방안 수립을 위한 청송 신성리 공룡발자국 화석지의 손상도 진단 및 물성평가)

  • Yang, Hye Ri;Lee, Chan Hee;Park, Jun Hyoung
    • Economic and Environmental Geology
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    • v.54 no.3
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    • pp.311-330
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    • 2021
  • The Sinseongri site contains at least eleven theropod trackways, three sauropod trackways, and one or more ornithopod walkways of dinosaur footprints. The host rock at the site is primarily siltstone and mudstone, but thermal alterations have metamorphosed it into hornfels. Except for micro cracks and exfoliations, joint systems in various directions appeared on the surface of the fossils site and showed a low share of all damage factors. The host rocks in the fossils site demonstrated relatively high physical properties as a result of ultrasonic velocity and were classified as stable. More than half of the fossils required reinforcement to control the progression of cracks if the type of conservation treatment was subdivided according to the damage type of dinosaur footprint fossils. The white paint used to visualize the footprints seems to deteriorate, allowing rock debris to spill out and causing damage to the fossil site, and alternative visualization schemes should be considered.

Disposal Consciousness of Foods Waste and Meal Management Behavior in Relation to Environmental Conservation of Housewives (주부의 환경보전을 위한 음식물 쓰레기의 처리의식 및 식생활 관리행동)

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    • Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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    • v.36 no.12
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    • pp.191-200
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    • 1998
  • The purpose of this study were to examine the disposal consciousness of foods waste and meal management behavior related to environmental conservation, and to find out the ways to improve the disposal of foods waste. Data were collected from questionaire with 786 housewives who live in Chonbuk area. About 45% of foods waste consisted of vegetables and fruits. The levels of cooking(use) and idsposal behavior among meal management behavior were relatively high, but food preparation(buy) score was low. These results suggested that menu planning before food preparation, and buying some cleaned and trimmed foods in the market should be recommennded to reduce the foods waste. The levels of meal management behavior did not show any significant associaations with disposal consciousness of foods waste but were positively correlated to environmental conciousness. It could be thought that the effort of government administration to reduce and reuse of foods waste is needed to improve the desirable disposal behavior of that, and the well programmed enviornmental education should be more required and practical than increase the environmental conciousness.

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Developing Strategies of Environmental-Friendly Agriculture Around the Chuam Dam (주암댐 주변지역의 친환경농업 실태와 발전방안)

  • Lee, Ki-Woong;Park, Jee-Man
    • Korean Journal of Organic Agriculture
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.377-397
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    • 2004
  • The objectives of this study are to find out, the fact-analysis of environmental friendly farm households around the Chuam Dam through the sample survey, 2) the developing strategies to improve the EPA on the assumption that is the conservation of Chuam Dam's water quality. The data used in this study comes from 75 sample farm households. The developing strategies to improve the EPA around Chuam Dam was found out that the efficiency measure of land utilization around CImam Dam, producing of high quality and safety agricultural products, promoting of the EPA connected with tourist agriculture, improving of the EPA products and supporting of price and income. In conclusion, there must be strategic measures to increase the income of environmental friendly farmers and to conserve the Chuam Dam's water quality.

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Visitors' Perceptions to Ecotourism Goals and Satisfaction : The Case of Muju Firefly Festival

  • Jeong Gang-Hoan;Roh Yong-Ho;Yhang Wii-Joo
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.373-377
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    • 2005
  • The purposes of this study were to investigate ecotourism goals which are providing educational tourism, generating environmental conservation, and residents' economic benefits based on the 7th Muju Firefly festival. The sample was 243 visitors from August 23rd to 30th, 2003. The results were as follows: First, visitors showed high satisfaction for the educational tourism program. Experiencing educational 'Mysterious Firefly Field Trips' contributed to the tourists' educational satisfaction. It was found that these experience programs were very popular. Second, residents' and domestic visitors' satisfaction was high with 5.50 on Likert 7 points concerning environmental conservation. Third, foreigners showed high satisfaction for visiting tourism sites and understanding regional culture in terms of understanding region and economic benefits. The average economic effect was decreased compared to 2002. So there should be more diverse strategy to increase economic effect. Also more festival related products, diverse and unique foods and beverages based on regional products should be developed.

The Foundation Research Development of Anmyundo Based on a Consciousness of Resident and Visitor (주민 및 이용자의 의식에 기초한 안면도의 현황 및 발전방향에 대한 기초연구)

  • Lee, Dong-Kun;Bang, Kwang-Ja;Kim, E-Shin;Youn, So-Won;Kang, Hyun-Kyung;Kim, Jung-Yun
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Environmental Restoration Technology
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    • v.2 no.4
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    • pp.35-46
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    • 1999
  • For the purpose of building up the future direction for the development and usage of Anmyundo, this paper is intended to collect the basic sources of Anmyundo and to analyze the consciousness of its development direction, which was surveyed on local residents and visitors. The result shows that local residents are not fully satisfied with its environment(59.6 point), but natural environment(74.2 point) turns out the most influential factor of satisfaction and living environment(66.0 point), social economic environment(48.1 point) follow the next. Satisfied with its natural environment which includes good scenery and a lot of environment resources, residents and visitors are discontented with living environment and social economic environment. In terms of "development" and "conservation", the responses of residents are clearly divided into both sides in the same level by each 27.7%. On the other hand, visitors support "conservation"(36.8%) rather than "development"(22.8%) and prefer to keep its present natural environment as a environment study place and rest area.

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A Study on the Conservation, Rehabilitation and Creation of Naturality of Rivers(I) - The Correlation of the degree of Pollution on a River and the Land Use in Rural Area - (하천에 있어서 자연성의 보전, 정비, 창출에 관한 연구(I) - 농촌지역에서의 토지이용과 하천수질과의 상관성 -)

  • Lee, Jin-Hee;Lee, Haeng-Youl;Lee, Jae-Kun;Lee, Dong-Kun;Kim, Hoon-Hee
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Environmental Restoration Technology
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.84-94
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    • 1998
  • The sources of the pollution on a river are divided into two classes, one the point source and the other non-point source. In raining, especially, the non-point source discharged from paddy, residential area, road ${\cdots}$ etc have correlations with the land use. This study was carried out to find out the model to estimate the quality of water in a river according to the land use. Land use data (Pungse-Myeoun and Kwangduk-Myeoun in Chonan) were produced from Landsat TM (Thematic Mapper) and topographic map. Total nitrogen(TN) and total phosphorus(TP) general indices for the degree of pollution in river were measured during 11 months. Correlations between two variables(Land use and Pollutants(TN, TP)) were explained by the regression coefficient. As a result of this study, we found that among the five types of land use, the residential area, store area and paddy have significant effects upon the quality of water in a river. The results of this study will be applied to pre-estimate the degree of pollution in river broadly and to offer basic data in establishing the land use plan and the concept on the conservation of the river in rural area.

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Plant Regeneration of Iris koreana Nakai through Organogenesis for Ex-situ Conservation

  • Bae, Kee-Hwa;Yun, I-Seul;Jung, Ji-Sun;Kim, Chan-Beom;Kim, Hye-Won;Hong, Yong-Sik;Oak, Min-Kyeong;Kim, Hak-Koo;Lee, Ju-Hui
    • Journal of Forest and Environmental Science
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    • v.37 no.4
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    • pp.304-308
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    • 2021
  • Iris koreana (Iridaceae) is an endangered plant native to Korea. In order to develop an in vitro propagation method, we investigated the effect of 2,4-dichlorophenoxy acetic acid (2,4-D) and a-naphthalene acetic acid (NAA) on callus induction in different I. koreana tissues. In addition, we also investigated the effect of 2,4-D and Benzyl aminopurine (BA) treatments on adventitious shoot induction in viable calli and the effect of indole-3-butyric acid (IBA) on root formation in viable shoots. We found that callus production was highest with 1.0 mg/L NAA (94.4% cultured rhizome explants), and adding low concentrations of 2,4-D to BA containing media significantly increased the frequency of shoot primordial formation. The best rooting results were obtained with 1.0 mg/L IBA, on which 98% of regenerated shoots developed roots and produced an average of 7.4 roots within 45 days. This in vitro propagation protocol will be useful for conservation, as well as for mass propagation.

An Observational Study on the Differences in Thermal Characteristics of the Upo Wetland and Converted Areas from Wetland to Paddy Field

  • Koo, Hyun-Suk;Jeon, Dae-Youn;Kim, Hae-Dong
    • Journal of the Korean earth science society
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    • v.30 no.5
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    • pp.622-629
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    • 2009
  • This study intended to collect data for evaluating the meteorological value of Upo Wetland which is the largest wetland in the downstream of Nakdong River. The observations were conducted in summer at the Upo Wetland and its surrounding paddy field that is the converted areas from a wetland to a paddy field. The following results are obtained: 1) The temperature of Upo Wetland area was $1^{\circ}C$ lower than the surrounding area during the day while it was a little higher during the night.; 2) The maximum wind speed in the Upo Wetland area was 3.5 m/s which is stronger than 1.6 m/s of its surrounding area. The south wind was observed in the farmland for most of the day while north winds and south winds alternated between day and night in Upo Wetland.; 3) In heat budget analysis, Upo Wetland was wasted in the form of latent heat rather than sensible heat in daytime.