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Estimating crippling loss from hunting with multistate models: a case study on northern bobwhites

open access: yesWildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Hunting as a recreational pursuit provides an important ecosystem service worldwide. Harvest management plays a vital role in regulating wildlife take to ensure long‐term population sustainability and meet value‐based objectives (e.g. hunter satisfaction). However, managers rarely have complete control or observability of harvest mortality.
Amanda S. Cramer   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fate of orphans of Canada geese harvested by hunters in Connecticut, USA, depends upon which month the parents were killed

open access: yesWildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Little is known about what happens to juvenile birds after one or both of their parents are harvested by hunters during the post‐fledging dependency period. Here, we compare the fate of juvenile Canada geese Branta canadensis that lost ≥ 1 parent to hunters (orphans) during this period to other juveniles that retained both parents (non‐orphans). For 25
Michael R. Conover, Lauren J. Head
wiley   +1 more source

Interpol review of the analysis and detection of explosives and explosives residues

open access: yesForensic Science International: Synergy, 2023
Douglas J. Klapec   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Chronic Wasting Disease management responses in North America: A public policy analysis

open access: yesWildlife Society Bulletin, EarlyView.
In this study we use the Multiple Streams Framework from public policy theory to assess the responses of wildlife management agencies in states and provinces with CWD‐positive cases in the United States and Canada to alleviate public concerns and manage the spread of this disease.
Kelly H. Dunning   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Context of protection against domestic violence and fight against firearms: Legislative framework and resolution 1325 in Serbia [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik Radova Pravnog Fakulteta u Nišu, 2019
Widespread possession of firearms, both legal and illegal, is one of the greatest threats to human security in the modern age. This problem can be linked to various forms of structural and cultural violence, especially for vulnerable and marginalized ...
Spasić Danijela, Radovanović Ivana
doaj  

Youth Gang Violence and Guns: Data Collection in California [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Provides an overview of data on youth gang-related homicides, the role of firearms in the rising lethality of gang violence, and the state of data collection.
Josh Sugarmann, Tom Diaz
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Reassessing the Significance of Firearms in Central Africa: The Case of North-Western Zambia to the 1920s [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Based on a close examination of European travelogues and the evidence produced in the wake of the formulation of colonial gun policies, this article contends that the significance of firearms in Central Africa in the nineteenth and early twentieth ...
Gann   +5 more
core   +1 more source

The birth of an earth being: ‘Rights of nature’ in Brazilian Amazonia and elsewhere Naissance d'un être de la terre : « droits de la nature » en Amazonie brésilienne et ailleurs

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In June 2023, the Laje River, located in the traditional territory of the Wari’ Indigenous people in Rondônia, Brazil, was declared a legal entity, an earth being, with rights, following the co‐ordinated action of an indigenous councillor and non‐indigenous activists.
Aparecida Vilaça
wiley   +1 more source

In the Business Outside the Law: How Unlicensed Sellers Are Flooding the Internet with Guns [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This investigation of high-volume online sellers shows that hundreds of gun sellers are using the internet to transfer tens of thousands of firearms each year, blurring the line between private sellers and licensed dealers, undermining the background ...

core  

US State Policy Contexts and Mental Health Among Working‐Age Adults

open access: yesThe Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.
Policy Points States’ overarching policy contexts are a meaningful yet overlooked predictor of adults’ mental health, with more conservative contexts associated with worse mental health outcomes over a 30‐year period. Counterfactual analyses suggest that widespread policy shifts could meaningfully alter the national prevalence of mental distress ...
ILIYA GUTIN   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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