Background Rescuing amphibian diversity is an achievable conservation challenge.
Disease mitigation is one essential component of population management. Here we assess …

Ungulate populations are important natural resources, associated with both costs and
benefits. Conflicts have arisen between stakeholders who benefit from high ungulate …

Social science is becoming increasingly important in conservation, with more studies
involving methodologies that collect data from and about people. Conservation science is a …

As industry and technology proliferate in modern society, sustainability has jumped to the
forefront of contemporary political and environmental discussions. The balance between …

For over 350 million years, thousands of species of amphibians have lived on earth, but
since the 1990s they have been disappearing at an alarming rate, in many cases quite …

Results from the Global Amphibian Assessment (GAA: www. globalamphibians. org) provide
a much-needed baseline for global amphibian conservation. These data can be used to …

In this paper we provide an analysis of the “new conservation debate,” a still-evolving
dispute in which conservation scientists and advocates defending a strong protected-areas …

Managed relocation (also known as assisted colonization, assisted migration) is one of the
more controversial proposals to emerge in the ecological community in recent years. A …

Despite differences in focus, goals, and strategies between conservation biology and animal
welfare, both are inextricably linked in many ways, and greater consideration of animal …

The consensus is that both ecological and social factors are essential dimensions of
conservation research and practice. However, much of the literature on multiple disciplinary …