Citizen science (CS) is receiving increasing attention as a conduit for Indigenous and local
knowledge (ILK) in ecosystem stewardship and conservation. Drawing on field experience …

Ecotourism has been advocated and adopted widely to provide financial, political and local
community support for conservation. We analyse its application for conservation of African …

Fear of predation can have major impacts on the behaviour of prey species. Recently the
concept of the ecology of fear has been defined and formalised; yet there has been relatively …

Large carnivores have experienced considerable range contraction, increasing the
importance of movement across human-altered landscapes between small, isolated …

Even with global support for tiger (Panthera tigris) conservation their survival is threatened
by poaching, habitat loss and isolation. Currently about 3,000 wild tigers persist in small …

Protected areas fall far short of securing the space needed to sustain biodiversity and
ecosystem function at a global scale and in the face of climate change. 2. The prospects of …

Rangelands across the world are home to millions of pastoral people and vast wildlife
populations, which create a complex landscape for conservation. Community based …

Anthropogenic mortality of wildlife is typically inferred from measures of the absolute decline
in population numbers. However, increasing evidence suggests that indirect demographic …

Like many wildlife populations across Africa, recent analyses indicate that African lions are
declining rapidly outside of small fenced areas. Community conservancies–privately …

Aim Predict empirically the current and recent historical (c1970) landscape connectivity and
population size of the African lion as a baseline against which to assess conservation of the …