Wildlife Conservation Society United Kingdom

Monitoring and assessment of elasmobranch bycatches in artisanal maritime fishing in southern Gabon, Central Africa

Elasmobranchs (sharks and rays) are particularly vulnerable to fishing pressure owing to their life-history traits, making them a major conservation concern in coastal ecosystems. To assess the composition and temporal dynamics of elasmobranch captures in southern Gabon, this stu...

Amazon Forgotten Fishes. How the remarkable diversity of freshwater fishes is critical to people, rivers and forest

Across the vast sweep of the Amazon Basin, thousands of rivers, streams and floodplain lakes flow in an immense, interconnected waterscape— home to an unparalleled diversity of freshwater fishes. More than 2,700 species have so far been recorded, with dozens more added each year...

Piloting Community-Based Zoonotic Disease Surveillance in Rural Alaska: The Community One Health Network of Alaska (COHNA)

Abstract The Community One Health Network of Alaska (COHNA) is a pilot project for participatory surveillance of zoonotic disease in rural Alaska. A transdisciplinary team implemented participatory surveillance for zoonotic diseases in wildlife, domestic animals, and human wastew...

Demographic drivers of the far eastern leopard population recovery

Effective conservation of endangered large carnivores requires understanding demographic processes driving population recovery. We present the first comprehensive demographic analysis of the critically endangered Far Eastern leopard ( Panthera pardus orientalis ) in Land of the L...

Region-specific infosheets on protected area expansion priorities

Infosheets for protected area expansionThis repository contains 2-page infosheets summarizing some of the key findings from the NaturaConnect pan-European prioritization work. There we identify the opportunities and benefits of expansions of strict and conventional protection. Th...