Enhanced monitoring, control, and surveillance (MCS) of illegal, unreported, and
unregulated (IUU) vessels is key to sustainable fisheries. This study examined relevant …

As global environmental changes continue to accelerate, research and practice in the field
of conservation biology may be essential to help forestall precipitous declines in the earth's …

It is now four decades since the conclusion of the Law of the Sea Convention, which came
into force in 1994, and an appropriate point to review the human dimension of the …

Gray literature and data from unpublished sources can provide important scientific
information that has not been published scientifically. The Persian leopard (hereafter …

Gender is an explanatory factor in multiple dimensions of conservation, including women's
access to and participation in conservation programmes, with gender bias in wildlife …

In much of Central Africa, eating wildlife is seen as a normal, desirable and common-sense
practice. Almost all wild animals, from the largest mammals to the smallest invertebrates, are …

Originating from the wildlife trade and emerging as a global pandemic, COVID-19 has
shown how exploitation of natural resources can negatively affect human health. More …

One of the greatest threats to environmental and human security today is transnational
ecoviolence and crime, which has become both a lucrative enterprise and a mode of life in …

Environmental insecurity is a source and outcome of biodiversity declines and social conflict.
One challenge to scaling insecurity reduction policies is that empirical evidence about local …

Poaching in Russia has been reported to be of catastrophic proportions and threatens
maintenance of biodiversity. Management of game species has stabilized some numbers …