Top Research Papers on Wildlife Conservation

A multilevel model of value shift is introduced to describe the changing social context of wildlife conservation and contend that agencies will need to embrace new strategies to engage and represent a growing segment of the public with mutualism values.

It is argued that animal ecologists can capitalize on large datasets generated by modern sensors by combining machine learning approaches with domain knowledge by incorporating machine learning into ecological workflows.

The primary areas in which population genomics approaches can be applied to wildlife conservation and management are reviewed, examples of how they have been used are highlighted, and recommendations for building on the progress that has been made are provided.

As urbanization continues to expand across the globe, urban wildlife research is critical for urban planners and conservation practitioners to create livable cities for both humans and wildlife. In 2012, Magle et al. conducted a foundational review on the status of urban wildlife research. The authors described the status of urban wildlife research as of 2010 and offered suggestions for future advancements in the field. We conducted a systematic review following Magle et al. (2012) to provide a 10-year update on the state of urban wildlife research globally and describe recent advancements in ...

The terrestrial vertebrates harbored higher genetic and phylogenetic diversity in South China and Southwest China than in other regions and climatic factors had significant positive effects while altitude and human population density had significant negative impacts on levels of mitochondrial DNA-based genetic diversity.

It is suggested that the COVID-19 crisis provides a unique opportunity for a paradigm shift both in the global food system and also in the approach to conservation, and that local people must be at the heart of such policy shifts.

It is argued that the net conservation impacts of COVID-19 will be strongly negative in Africa, and the critical importance of conserving habitat and regulating unsafe wildlife trade practices to reduce the risk of future pandemics.

A bigger picture including areas outside of the current borders of KAZA TFCA should be considered to sustainably manage and conserve wildlife populations and support re-connecting ecologically important areas for congested populations to move to and reduces the concentration of wildlife and pressure on the land and people of the region.

Both social media information and field data suggest that a reduction of human disturbance allowed wildlife to exploit new habitats and increase daily activity, and the lower human disturbance linked to lockdown was in fact beneficial for invasive alien species.

Human-wildlife interactions increase exponentially as more and more humans and wildlife crowd into the same limited space. Such interactions often become conflicts when wildlife threaten human health and safety, well-being, or the food supply. This second edition of Human-Wildlife Interactions: From Conflict to Coexistence provides a comprehensive review of the severity of these problems and the methods used to resolve clashes between humans and wildlife. During his forty-year career as a wildlife professor and scientist, Dr. Michael Conover, founder of journal Human-Wildlife Interactions, has...

The finding that antibiotic resistance genes, currently causing problems at hospitals, might spread through horizontal gene transfer among the bacteria present in the microbiomes of ubiquitous animals as cockroaches, fleas or rats, supports the possibility that these organisms might be bioreactors for the horizontal transfer of antibiotics resistance genes among human pathogens.

A decentralized model could address global health risks associated with wildlife exploitation because to date there are no international or national conventions on pathogen screening associated with animals, animal products, or their movements, and capacity for EID diagnostics is limited along much of the human-wildlife interface.

This review synthesizes the current knowledge concerning the geographic and host taxonomic distribution of mange in wildlife, the epidemiological connections between species, and the potential threat of sarcoptic mange for wildlife conservation and proposes a new agenda for the study of sarcoptes scabiei in wildlife.

A meta-analysis of 31 mammal, bird and reptile studies reveals that hunting or trapping for the wildlife trade is associated with decreased abundances, even where harvesting for trade occurs in protected areas.

Investigation of the occurrence and the antibiotic resistance patterns of several bacterial species in certain wild animals in Germany, including wild boars, roe deer and wild ducks and geese, indicates that overall, the prevalence of resistant bacteria in Germany is low.

A basic approach to case studies is recommended aimed at expanding the scope of inquiries into human–wildlife relations beyond studies of rational behavior and quantification of costs and benefits of wildlife to humans.

Abstract Human-wildlife conflict is one of the most pressing sustainable development challenges globally. This is particularly the case where ecologically and economically important wildlife impact the livelihoods of humans. Large carnivores are one such group and their co-occurrence with low-income rural communities often results in real or perceived livestock losses that place increased costs on already impoverished households. Here we show the disparities associated with the vulnerability to conflict arising from large carnivores on cattle ( Bos taurus ) globally. Across the distribution of...

The synthesis revealed that inter- and transdisciplinary approaches and multilevel governance approaches can help stakeholders and institutions implement sustainable management strategies that promote human-wildlife coexistence.

A cross‐disciplinary perspective is presented that integrates human–wildlife conflict, wildlife management, and urban evolution to address how social–ecological processes drive wildlife adaptation in cities and considers how specific management strategies either promote genetic or plastic changes and how leveraging those biological inferences could help optimize management actions while minimizing conflict.

The strong potential for aquaculture to affect the dynamics of diseases in wildlife populations calls for the consideration of collateral disease impacts in risk assessments and biosecurity protocols regarding Aquaculture.