The ecological drivers and consequences of wildlife trade

LJ Hughes, O Morton, BR Scheffers… - Biological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Wildlife trade is a key driver of extinction risk, affecting at least 24% of terrestrial vertebrates.
The persistent removal of species can have profound impacts on species extinction risk and …

Integrating proximal and horizon threats to biodiversity for conservation

TC Bonebrake, F Guo, C Dingle, DM Baker… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2019 - cell.com
Global conservation promotes solutions to different dimensions of threat and response: land-
use change, climate change, pollution, and so forth. Countering each threat has its band of …

A forest loss report card for the world's protected areas

C Wolf, T Levi, WJ Ripple, DA Zárrate-Charry… - Nature Ecology & …, 2021 - nature.com
Protected areas are a key tool in the conservation of global biodiversity and carbon stores.
We conducted a global test of the degree to which more than 18,000 terrestrial protected …

Making messy data work for conservation

ADM Dobson, EJ Milner-Gulland, NJ Aebischer… - One Earth, 2020 - cell.com
Conservationists increasingly use unstructured observational data, such as citizen science
records or ranger patrol observations, to guide decision making. These datasets are often …

The socio-economic drivers of bushmeat consumption during the West African Ebola crisis

I Ordaz-Németh, M Arandjelovic, L Boesch… - PLoS neglected …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Bushmeat represents an important source of animal protein for humans in tropical Africa.
Unsustainable bushmeat hunting is a major threat to wildlife and its consumption is …

Principles for the socially responsible use of conservation monitoring technology and data

C Sandbrook, D Clark, T Toivonen… - … Science and Practice, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Wildlife conservation and research benefits enormously from automated and interconnected
monitoring tools. Some of these tools, such as drones, remote cameras, and social media …

[HTML][HTML] Orangutan killing and trade in Indonesia: Wildlife crime, enforcement, and deterrence patterns

J Sherman, M Voigt, M Ancrenaz, SA Wich… - Biological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Wildlife poaching and illegal trade threaten the survival of many rare species. We assessed
spatiotemporal patterns in illegal killing, injury, capture, possession, and sale of orangutans …

A synthesis of (non‐) compliance theories with applications to small‐scale fisheries research and practice

R Oyanedel, S Gelcich, EJ Milner‐Gulland - Fish and Fisheries, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Non‐compliance in fisheries is a persistent challenge for the conservation and sustainable
management of the oceans and has particularly acute impacts in small‐scale fisheries …

Conservation value of tropical forests: Distance to human settlements matters more than management in Central Africa

S Lhoest, D Fonteyn, K Daïnou, L Delbeke… - Biological …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Tropical forests in Central Africa host unique biodiversity threatened by human
degradation of habitats and defaunation. Forests allocated to conservation, production and …

[HTML][HTML] Automated detection of gunshots in tropical forests using convolutional neural networks

LKD Katsis, AP Hill, E Piña-Covarrubias, P Prince… - Ecological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Unsustainable hunting is one of the leading drivers of global biodiversity loss, yet very few
direct measures exist due to the difficulty in monitoring this cryptic activity. Where guns are …