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Casting light on the workings of illegal fishing markets. [PDF]

open access: yesProc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Le Billon P, Ladefoged Z, Sumaila UR.
europepmc   +1 more source

To release or not to release? Understanding sawfish release behavior in a global south complex fishery

open access: yesConservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.
This demonstrates the gap between existing top‐down laws and strategies (Current Approach) and the barriers fishers face while proposing an alternative pathway (Proposed Approach) based on collaboration, capacity building, and addressing socio‐economic factors.
Shashowti Chowdhury Riya   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tolerance for jaguars among ranching communities in the Colombian Llanos

open access: yesConservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.
Livestock protection measures are often implemented with the desired outcome of reducing retaliatory killings. We studied drivers of retaliatory killings in four communities in the Colombian Llanos and evaluated whether an electric fencing intervention would improve tolerance for jaguars.
Matthew Hyde   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Improving detectability of illegal fishing activities across supply chains. [PDF]

open access: yesNPJ Ocean Sustain
Oyanedel R   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The HAWLT approach to holistically address wildlife trafficking

open access: yesConservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.
The Holistically Address WildLife Trafficking (HAWLT) Approach represents a multi‐dimensional framework to design and implement strategies to reduce wildlife trafficking. HAWLT integrates the preeminent adaptive framework of conservation science—the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation—with techniques to reduce wildlife trafficking in a ...
Jennifer R. B. Miller   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Using value of information in recovery planning for imperiled species

open access: yesConservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.
Conservation planning often employs predictive models to prioritize alternative actions, but uncertainty related to lack of data or uncertainty in the influence of global change may erode confidence in predictions. Managers must choose between investing time and money to gather more information, or implementing conservation actions immediately, despite
Erica M. Christensen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Speculation in the United Kingdom, 1785‒2019

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Speculation has long been thought to have significant economic effects, but it is difficult to measure, making it challenging to examine these effects empirically. In this paper we measure speculation in the United Kingdom since 1785 by using business and financial reporting in The Times newspaper.
William Quinn   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Extreme weather and economic crisis in the 1430s in England, and the implications for tenurial change

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The 1430s were characterized by extreme weather conditions, food and fodder shortages, and high mortalities among animals and humans, although the severity of events and their consequences in England have received limited attention. The economic downturn and the depressed customary land market in this decade marked the beginning of the Great ...
Mark Bailey
wiley   +1 more source

Benefitting from brutality? Profits of north‐western Europe's slave trade at the eve of the industrial revolution

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract One of the most contentious issues in the study of the Atlantic slave trade is the profitability of the trade. In this paper, we contribute by pooling all available data on transatlantic slave ship voyage accounts into a joint dataset. This dataset includes data from a period of 100 years (1730–1830) and from five nations (Denmark, France ...
Klas Rönnbäck   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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