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Rising Connectivity, Shifting Hubs: The Evolving Network and Governance Challenges of Global Wild‐Sourced Trade

open access: yesAnimal Conservation, EarlyView.
Wild‐sourced wildlife trade is not only increasing in volume but also changing in network structure. Using three decades of CITES trade records, we found that the wild‐sourced wildlife trade has become increasingly connected and taxonomically uneven, with Anthozoa contributing a growing share.
Jing Wang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Integrating Indigenous knowledge and modern statistical approaches to model wildlife density based on animal track counts

open access: yesConservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract In multiuse areas outside formal protection, sustaining both wildlife and people is critical to wildlife conservation and coexistence efforts. Botswana's Kalahari hosts one of sub‐Saharan Africa’s largest unprotected areas supporting free‐ranging wildlife.
Marie‐Charlotte Gielen   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tolerances of North China leopard and their prey distributions to primary road disturbances driven by habitat spatial heterogeneity

open access: yesGlobal Ecology and Conservation
Roads, as man-made features nested within landscapes, have extensive impacts on wildlife survival. However, how the heterogeneous distribution of habitat factors along roads affects the tolerance of wildlife’s spatial distribution relative to roads has ...
Shangchun Qiao   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

The cat's out of the bag: Examining US wildlife trade of felids from 2000 to 2020

open access: yesConservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.
Felids feature heavily in the wildlife trade, and an investigation into LEMIS data from 2000 to 2020 showed felid imports were dominated by bobcats and Canada lynx for fur, while tigers and leopards were the most commonly traded cats in the illegal market, primarily as medicinal products.
Alessandra M. Bresnan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Local perceptions of Asiatic black bear conservation in a subsistence agriculture community of Mustang, Nepal

open access: yesConservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.
Household surveys in Kunjo, Mustang district examined local perceptions of Asiatic black bear conservation, crop damage, and human‐bear interactions. Crop damage was greater near forest edges, while more than half of households have negative attitude towards bear conservation. The findings highlight the importance of incorporating local perceptions and
Sangam Poudel   +3 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

The Formosan Black Bear and Taiwanese Nationalism

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Building on scholarship that situates nations and nationalism within colonial relations, this article examines nationalism in settler‐colonial Taiwan amid China's colonial claim to sovereignty. Drawing on interviews, conservation documents and popular representations, we show how the Formosan black bear became a national symbol of resistance ...
Yung‐Ying Chang, John Chung‐En Liu
wiley   +1 more source

Major tectonic units of the North China Craton and their Paleoproterozoic assembly [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
The basement of the North China Craton can be divided into the Eastern and Western Blocks and the Central Zone (Trans-North China Orogen). The West Block formed by the amalgamation of the Ordos Block in the south and the Yinshan Block in the north 1.9-2 ...
Zhao, G, Sun, M, Wilde, SA
core   +1 more source

Linguistic Justice in World Englishes: A View From Cultural Appropriation

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article highlights the need to better clarify what we understand by linguistic justice. Failure to do so poses the danger that the concept not only remains something we may clamour for but is also one that we are unable or unwilling to recognize should we ever encounter it.
Lionel Wee
wiley   +1 more source

Map of Shanghai [cartographic material].

open access: yes, 1922
Map of Shanghai in China showing roads, railways, temples, buildings of importance and schools.; On verso: Map of Shanghai : supplement to the North-China desk Hong list.
North-China Daily News & Herald Ltd.
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