Zimbabwehas removed thehorns of its entire rhino populationto deterpoaching.The de-horning process of more than 1,000 animals was doneby veterinarians from the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority,accordin...
Crocodiles,gharials and alligators(order Crocodilia),are aquatic reptiles that live in the tropics of Asia,America,Africa,and Australia.Asian countries such as India,Indonesia,Malaysia,and tropics of Australia are the...
The study was supported by the Strategic Priority Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences,China(XDA20020101).
Initially,hunting was the primary means for getting food for the survival of ancient people.As time passed,people started to breed livestock and develop agriculture,gradually reducing their reliance on unpredictabilit...
supported by the National Key Programme of Research and Development,Ministry of Science and Technology of China (2016YFC0503202);National Natural Science Foundation of China (31870396);an IDRC grant “Climate Change and Increasing Human-Wildlife Conflict”。
DEAR EDITOR Deforestation represents one of the greatest threats to tropical forest mammals, and the situation is greatly exacerbated by bushmeat hunting. To construct informed conservation plans,information must be g...
A robust framework to guide community engagement in sustainable wildlife conservation and illegal wildlife trade is lacking.Virtually all conservation bodies and players believe that local communities are key to the s...
Humankind is responsible for conditioning the distribution of species, including the African elephant. From its great physical form to its fascinating social behaviour, Lox...
This study assessed the contribution of former poachers to wildlife conservation in Volcanoes National Park, the main causes of poaching activities in Volcanoes National Park. The results indicated that the main cause...
Bushmeat hunting is one of the greatest pressure to wildlife alongside habitat fragmentation, deforestation, land use change and climate change. Despite the interventions from government and Non Governmental Organizat...
We thank the Liz Claiborne and Art Ortenberg Foundation,the North American Association of Zoos and Aquariums,the Disney Conservation Fund,Feld Entertainment,the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation,the Phoenix Fund,the Tigris Foundation,the United States Agency for International Development(USAID;Associate Award#118-A-00-11-00007-00);the United States Fish and Wildlife Service’s Rhinoceros and Tiger Fund(grant numbers F10AP00399 and F14AP00659);the Columbus Zoo and the Zoological Society of London for their financial support of the SMART program in Russia.We are grateful to Yevgeny Stoma for trial testing the collection of data for the LEM program,and we thank the staff and directors of Lazovsky State Zapovednik,Land of the Leopard National Park,Zov Tigra National Park and Sikhote-Alin Biosphere Zapovednik for agreeing to participate in this program and for their efforts to make SMART a success.
Although considerable conservation resources have been committed to develop and use law enforcement monitoring and management tools such as SMART,measures of success are ill-defined and,to date,few reports detail resu...
Poaching as well as loss of habitat and prey are identified as causes of tiger population declines.Although some studies have examined habitat requirements and prey availability,few studies have quantified cause-speci...