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Anthropogenic modification of forests means only 40% of remaining forests have high ecosystem integrity

Nature Communications, 2020
Mapping and quantifying degree of forest modification is critical to conserve and manage forests. Here the authors propose a new quantitative metric for landscape integrity and apply it to a global forest map, showing that less than half of the world’s ...
H. S. Grantham, A. Duncan, T. D. Evans, K. R. Jones, H. L. Beyer, R. Schuster, J. Walston, J. C. Ray, J. G. Robinson, M. Callow, T. Clements, H. M. Costa, A. DeGemmis, P. R. Elsen, J. Ervin, P. Franco, E. Goldman, S. Goetz, A. Hansen, E. Hofsvang, P. Jantz, S. Jupiter, A. Kang, P. Langhammer, W. F. Laurance, S. Lieberman, M. Linkie, Y. Malhi, S. Maxwell, M. Mendez, R. Mittermeier, N. J. Murray, H. Possingham, J. Radachowsky, S. Saatchi, C. Samper, J. Silverman, A. Shapiro, B. Strassburg, T. Stevens, E. Stokes, R. Taylor, T. Tear, R. Tizard, O. Venter, P. Visconti, S. Wang, J. E. M. Watson   +47 more
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Under pressure: comparing in situ and boat tagging methods using time-to-event analyses

Animal Biotelemetry, 2021
Background With the increase in telemetry studies over the past decade, improving understanding of how different tagging methods influence the probability of presence in a receiver array is important in maximizing the resulting data.
Jessica A. Keller, Danielle Morley, Jennifer L. Herbig, Paul Barbera, Michael W. Feeley, Alejandro Acosta   +5 more
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Mixed-breed guarding dogs reduce conflict between goat herders and native carnivores in Patagonia

Human-Wildlife Interactions, 2017
Goat husbandry is the main rural livelihood in the northern Patagonian steppe of Argentina, and herders kill any carnivore that they believe threatens their herds, including the endangered Andean cat (Leopardus jacobita).
Alejandro González, Andrés Novaro, Martín Funes, Oscar Pailacura, María Jose Bolgeri, María Jose Bolgeri   +5 more
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Unveiling the ghost: short-eared dog (Atelocynus microtis) distribution, activity patterns, habitat use, relative abundance, and occupancy in Bolivia [PDF]

Neotropical Biology and Conservation
The short-eared dog (Atelocynus microtis) is one of the world’s least-known canids and one of Latin America’s least-known carnivores. We performed a systematic summary of published and unpublished distributional records for the species across Bolivia (n =
Robert B. Wallace, Guido Ayala, Maria Viscarra, Zulia Porcel   +3 more
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Noteworthy records of the birds Neomorphus radiolosus Sclater and Salvin, 1878 (Cuculiformes: Cuculidae), Geotrygon frenata (Tschudi, 1843) (Columbiformes: Columbidae) and Odontophorus hyperythrus Gould, 1858 (Galliformes: Odontophoridae) in the Western Cordillera of the Colombian Andes [PDF]

Check List, 2013
We recorded the Banded Ground-cuckoo (Neomorphus radiolosus), White-throated Quail-Dove (Geotrygon frenata) and Chestnut Wood-Quail (Odontophorus hyperythrus) in the Pacific Slope of the Western Andes of Colombia. Records of N.
Jesús Martínez-Gómez, Vladimir Rojas-Díaz, Carlos Saavedra-Rodríguez, Padu Franco   +3 more
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Retrospective and current trend of wild‐cat trade in Peru

Conservation Science and Practice, 2021
Several species of wild cats are threatened with extinction due to habitat loss, persecution or retaliatory killing by humans as a result of real or perceived livestock depredation, and illegal trade.
José Luis Mena, Rosa Vento, Jorge Luis Martínez, Ana Gallegos   +3 more
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Restoration of a wild grey partridge shoot: a major development in the Sussex study, UK

Animal Biodiversity and Conservation, 2012
Restauración de la caza de la perdiz pardilla: un importante progreso en el estudio de Sussex, Reino Unido Desde hace una generación se conoce la base científica de la gestión de la perdiz pardilla.
J. A. Ewald, G. R. Potts, N. J. Aebischer   +2 more
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Spatial analysis to inform the mitigation hierarchy

Conservation Science and Practice, 2022
Human activities such as urbanization, infrastructure and agriculture are driving global biodiversity declines. In an attempt to balance economic development goals with biodiversity conservation, governments and industry apply a decision‐making framework
Kendall R. Jones, Amrei von Hase, Hugo M. Costa, Hugo Rainey, Naseeba Sidat, Benjamin Jobson, Thomas B. White, Hedley S. Grantham   +7 more
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A new multiplex qPCR assay to detect and differentiate big cat species in the illegal wildlife trade

Scientific Reports, 2023
All species of big cats, including tigers, cheetahs, leopards, lions, snow leopards, and jaguars, are protected under the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). This is due in large part to population declines resulting from
Carol S. Henger, Dyan J. Straughan, Charles C. Y. Xu, Batya R. Nightingale, Heidi E. Kretser, Mary K. Burnham-Curtis, Denise McAloose, Tracie A. Seimon   +7 more
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First record of Neogale africana (Desmarest, 1818), Amazon Weasel (Carnivora, Mustelidae), in Bolivia [PDF]

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Neogale africana (Desmarest, 1818), Amazon Weasel, is a poorly known South American carnivore, with records from north-central Brazil to Ecuador and south to central Peru and central Brazil.
Nuria Bernal-Hoverud, Daniela Morales-Moreno, Eyner Eugenio Quispe, Jorge Rojas, Omar Torrico, Robert B. Wallace, Jorge Salazar-Bravo   +6 more
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