The “trophic downgrading of planet Earth” refers to the systematic decline of the world's largest vertebrates. However, our understanding of why megafauna extinction risk varies …
More than a quarter of the world's tropical forests are exploited for timber. Logging impacts biodiversity in these ecosystems, primarily through the creation of forest roads that facilitate …
Wire snares are among the most common and widely-used techniques for illegal harvesting of terrestrial animals around the world. Recent research has documented the mortality …
JJ Figel, R Safriansyah, SF Baabud, Z Herman - Biological Conservation, 2023 - Elsevier
Wire-snare poaching is increasingly recognized as a major threat to endangered large carnivores in Africa and Asia. However, empirical information on the extent and distribution …
Of all the ways human beings have modified the planet over the last 10,000 years, habitat loss is the most important for other species. To address this most critical threat to …
MI Lubis, JSH Lee, UM Rahmat, Tarmizi… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Human-induced forest loss has had devastating impacts on biodiversity. Mammal populations in the tropics have been hit particularly hard by the resulting habitat loss …
SM Haq, D Sircar, J Louies, SK Sinha, V Menon - Biological Conservation, 2023 - Elsevier
Traditional hunting methods, despite their simple design pose a serious hazard to wild animals. Keeping in view, the negative impacts of traditional hunting methods including wire …
WJ McShea, MH Hwang, F Liu, S Li, C Lamb… - Global Ecology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Changes in the distribution of a species can be used to as a metric of conservation status and to identify the loss or gain of isolated populations. This mapping process is a …