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Exploring collaborative conservation across a multifunctional landscape in the Boland Mountain Complex, South Africa

open access: yesConservation Science and Practice, Volume 8, Issue 2, February 2026.
This paper presents a case study of a collaborative conservation initiative in a South African biodiversity hotspot, where leopard conservation catalyzed partnership across a multifunctional landscape. The case study explores how and why the initiative operates, highlighting the importance of leadership, existing networks, shared vision, and bridging ...
Michael Klaver   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

PERIPHERY TO CENTRE STAGE: THE SARRASANI CIRCUS IN WEIMAR GERMANY

open access: yesGerman Life and Letters, Volume 79, Issue 1, Page 16-36, January 2026.
ABSTRACT The modern European circus was more than just entertainment: it was a powerful platform where fantasies of empire, ideas of national identity, and notions of racial difference came together and were put on public display. In interwar Germany, the Sarrasani Circus — the largest circus enterprise in the country at the time — built on the legacy ...
Sabine Hanke
wiley   +1 more source

Sex and the Social Order: Creative Approaches to Teaching the History of Gender and Sexuality in Modern Britain

open access: yesHistory, Volume 110, Issue 393, Page 691-701, December 2025.
Abstract ‘Sex and the Social Order: Gender and Sexuality in Modern Britain’ is a second‐year optional module for history students at the University of the West of England, Bristol (UWE). The module examines histories of gender and sexuality from the mid‐nineteenth century to the present day, providing a wealth of accessible primary material and a ...
LAURA HARRISON   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A short chronicle of warfare in South Africa

open access: yesScientia Militaria, 2012
Khoisan Wars Khoisan is the collective name for the South African people known as Hottentots and Bushmen. It is compounded from the first part of Khoi Khoin (men of men) as the Hottentots called themselves, and San, the names given by the Hottentots ...
Military Information Bureau
doaj   +1 more source

Biological invasions: a global assessment of geographic distributions, long‐term trends, and data gaps

open access: yesBiological Reviews, Volume 100, Issue 6, Page 2542-2583, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Biological invasions are one of the major drivers of biodiversity decline and have been shown to have far‐reaching consequences for society and the economy. Preventing the introduction and spread of alien species represents the most effective solution to reducing their impacts on nature and human well‐being.
Hanno Seebens   +64 more
wiley   +1 more source

Old Bones in New Databases: Historical Insights Into Race, Statistics, and Ancestry Estimation in Anthropology

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 3, Page 566-580, September 2025.
ABSTRACT This article explores the persistence of race in biological anthropology, particularly in the context of ancestry estimation using the Fordisc software. Despite efforts to move away from race‐based typologies since the mid‐20th century, historical notions of race continue to shape scientific methods and technologies in anthropology. By tracing
Iris Clever, Lisette Jong
wiley   +1 more source

ALL THAT GLITTERS: THE MANY OBJECTS OF ROME'S MUSEUM OF CIVILIZATIONS

open access: yesHistory and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 3, Page 422-452, September 2025.
ABSTRACT This review article examines the various methodologies practiced by Rome's Museum of Civilizations (Museo delle Civiltà) to discuss the contemporary curatorial approaches of traditional ethnographic museums. It adopts a historical and comparative perspective to situate the diverse collections within ongoing debates about art restitution.
Arielle Xena Alterwaite
wiley   +1 more source

The pain of migrants in a strange land

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2019
This article analyses the different assumptions about migrants in South Africa, coupled with levels of abuses and marginalisation of black African immigrants, which seem to be a source of depression and emotional pain for them in their strange land ...
Maake J. Masango, Joel U. Olisa
doaj   +1 more source

To Bees or Not to Bees: Greater Honeyguides Sometimes Guide Humans to Animals Other Than Bees, but Likely Not as Punishment

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 4, April 2025.
We show that greater honeyguides guide humans to nonbee destinations (snakes and a dead mammal); yet this is a rare occurrence, happening in only 3.7% of human‐honeyguide interactions in 1 year and 0% in other years. We show that guiding behavior to these vertebrates is spatially and acoustically similar to honeyguide behavior when guiding to bees; yet
David J. Lloyd‐Jones   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Perched on the Plateau: Speciation in a Cape Fold Mountain Velvet Worm Clade, With the Description of Seven New Species (Onychophora: Peripatopsidae: Peripatopsis) From South Africa

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 4, April 2025.
Molecular systematic studies revealed seven novel velvet worm species from the Cape Fold Mountains in the Western Cape, South Africa suggest high levels of endemism for forest‐dwelling species such a velvet worms (Peripatopsis). Photographic images of five of the new species (B‐F). ABSTRACT During the present study, we re‐examined species boundaries in
Savel R. Daniels, Aaron Barnes
wiley   +1 more source

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