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A review of high nature value farming systems in Europe: Biodiversity, ecosystem services, drivers, innovations and future prospects

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Farming systems of high natural and cultural value represent approximately 30% of farmlands in the European Union and are associated with a high species and habitat diversity and/or the presence of species of European conservation concern. This study aims to synthesize the existing knowledge on the assessment of biodiversity and ecosystem ...
Elsa Varela, Marion Jay, Lukas Flinzberger, Chaima Mobarak, Tobias Plieninger   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Malagasy Amphibian Wildlife Trade Revisited: Improving Management Knowledge of the Trade. [PDF]

Animals (Basel), 2023
Carpenter AI, Andreone F.
europepmc   +1 more source

Hunting motivations, behaviour and forest access: Characterising wildlife hunting practices in a multi‐ethnic, forested landscape of Brunei Darussalam, Southeast Asia

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Unsustainable hunting practices can alter population dynamics, driving biodiversity declines, which leads to ‘empty forests’. Understanding hunting behaviour, including motivations for hunting and relationships with market drivers, and access to hunting grounds are important to develop affirmative policies to stem biodiversity loss.
Natasha L. M. Mannion, Rachel Gaulton, Maria Erica Jamil, Marion Pfeifer, Johan Willem Ferry Slik, Stephen G. Willis, F. Merlin Franco   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Trading species to extinction: evidence of extinction linked to the wildlife trade. [PDF]

Camb Prism Extinct, 2023
Hinsley A, Willis J, Dent AR, Oyanedel R, Kubo T, Challender DWS.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Tree planting, natural colonisation, hybrid approaches: Land manager decisions explored

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract There is a global drive to protect biodiversity and help combat climate change. In the UK, this is expressed in a number of policy initiatives and tools that include increasing tree cover as an important nature‐based solution to achieving national policy targets.
Bianca Ambrose‐Oji, Maddy Pearson, Katy Spencer, Elliot Colley, Matt Guy, Kevin Watts   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The impact of COVID‐19 on public perceptions of wild meat in Central Africa

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Wild meat is a significant source of food and income generation in Central Africa. However, there is little knowledge of how the assumed link between COVID‐19 and wild meat consumption has been discussed by the media and received by the public. In this study, we conducted media content analysis of 264 articles published in 2019–2020 related to
Yuhan Li, Lude Kinzonzi, Paul Loundou, Divin Malekani, Krossy Mavakala, Christian Mikolo Yobo, Katharine Abernethy, Matilda Eve Dunn, Donald Midoko Iponga, Robert Mwinyihali, Joss Wright, Eleanor Jane Milner‐Gulland, Lauren Coad, Juliet H. Wright, Daniel W. S. Challender   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Protection, policies, prisoners and prosecutions linked to nautilus shells in traditional handicrafts

Discover Animals
In the 1980s a novel handicraft was established in the city of Mataram on the island of Lombok, Indonesia, using nautilus shells inlays in wooden objects and furniture.
Vincent Nijman, Marco Campera, Michela Balestri, I Nyoman Aji Duranegara Payuse, Kuntayuni, Chris R. Shepherd, Jessica Chavez   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

A new multiplex qPCR assay to detect and differentiate big cat species in the illegal wildlife trade. [PDF]

Sci Rep, 2023
Henger CS, Straughan DJ, Xu CCY, Nightingale BR, Kretser HE, Burnham-Curtis MK, McAloose D, Seimon TA.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Environmental Water Markets: Restoring Streams Through Trade [PDF]

, 2010
This Policy Series explores the evolving institutional settings in western states1 for restoring and preserving instream flows. The focus is on how markets can provide an efficient and equitable solution for allocating water among increasingly ...
Brandon Scarborough
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Primary producers' positions towards bears and bear conservation: Insights for human–bear coexistence

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract We present primary producers' (farmers', livestock breeders', beekeepers') positions towards bears and bear conservation as documented through semi‐structured interviews within the frame of human dimensions actions of LIFE projects implemented between 2015 and 2022 in Greece.
Tasos Hovardas, Dimitris Bormpoudakis, Giorgos Chatzinakos   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source