Conservation translocations (reintroductions, reinforcements, ecological replacements, and
assisted colonization) have played a vital and necessary role in conserving endangered …

Wildlife is declining around the world. Many developed nations have enacted legislation on
endangered species protection and provide funding for wildlife recovery. Protecting …

My motivation to write this book was fairly simple: human impacts are transforming the
planet, and changing governance could improve the situation. I also realised that many …

Conservation planning depends on reliable information regarding the geographic
distribution of species. However, our knowledge of species' distributions is often incomplete …

If an apparently extinct bird calls in a forest, and there are people there to hear it—to record
it, even—is it still extinct? The Ivory-billed Woodpecker was last 'officially'seen in the United …

Despite its successes, the US Endangered Species Act (ESA) has proven challenging to
implement due to funding limitations, workload backlog, and other problems. As threats to …

The interdisciplinary field of assessing the impacts of sound on marine life has benefited
largely from the advancement of underwater acoustics that occurred after World War II …

In recent decades, there has been an increasing emphasis on proactive efforts to conserve
species being considered for listing under the US Endangered Species Act (ESA) before …

The accelerating loss of biodiversity has created an urgent need for applied science to help
halt species extinction. However, conservation scientists have long been concerned about …

Underwater sound generated from human activities has been long recognized to cause
adverse effects on marine mammals, ranging from auditory masking to behavioral …