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Governance Principles for Wildlife Conservation in the 21st Century [PDF]

Conservation Letters, 2016
Wildlife conservation is losing ground in the U.S. for many reasons. The net effect is declines in species and habitat. To address this trend, the wildlife conservation institution (i.e., all customs, practices, organizations and agencies, policies ...
Decker, Daniel, Doyle-Capitman, Catherine, Forstchen, Ann, Hare, Darragh, Organ, John, Pomeranz, Emily, Schuler, Krysten, Smith, Christian   +7 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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Consumption-Based Conservation Targeting: Linking Biodiversity Loss to Upstream Demand through a Global Wildlife Footprint. [PDF]

, 2017
Although most conservation efforts address the direct, local causes of biodiversity loss, effective long-term conservation will require complementary efforts to reduce the upstream economic pressures, such as demands for food and forest products, which ...
Berlow, Eric, Conlisk, Erin, Erb, Karlheinz, Harte, John, Iha, Katsunori, Kitzes, Justin, Martinez, Neo, Newman, Erica A, Plutzar, Christoph, Smith, Adam B   +9 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 We performed a systematic summary of published and unpublished distributional records for the species across Bolivia (n =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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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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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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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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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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Evaluating the potential for the environmentally sustainable control of foot and mouth disease in Sub-Saharan Africa [PDF]

, 2013
Strategies to control transboundary diseases have in the past generated unintended negative consequences for both the environment and local human populations.
A Caron, A Catley, A Murwira, A Picado, Alexandre Caron, B Perry, Bertrand Chardonnet, BM Bronsvoort, BM Bronsvoort, C Bedelian, C Riginos, CJ Jost, DA McGranaghan, Daniel Thomas Haydon, David James Paton, DHM Cumming, DJ Augustine, DJ Paton, DJ Paton, FM Kivaria, Fredrick Mathias Kivaria, G Cozzi, G Harris, GR Thomson, GR Thomson, I Scoones, ID Craigie, J D’Amico Hales, J Hanks, J. Grant C. Hopcraft, JC Mariner, Julius Keyyu, K Ferguson, Kenneth J. Ferguson, M Garine-Wichatitsky De, MD Kock, ME Gadd, PA Lindsey, R Kock, RB Boone, RG Bengis, Richard A. Kock, RS Reid, RS Reid, RT Taylor, S Osofsky, SA Osofsky, SA Osofsky, Sarah Cleaveland, SK Hargreaves, SO Ohaga, Thomas Nyariki, Tiziana Lembo, W Vosloo, WB Karesh, WD Newmark   +55 more
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First record of Neogale africana (Desmarest, 1818), Amazon Weasel (Carnivora, Mustelidae), in Bolivia [PDF]

Check List
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
doaj   +3 more sources