How coniferous forests evolved in the Northern Hemisphere remains largely unknown.
Unlike most groups of organisms that generally follow a latitudinal diversity gradient, most …

Wildlife health assessments help identify populations at risk of starvation, disease, and
decline from anthropogenic impacts on natural habitats. We conducted an overview of …

A large amount of birds are harvested from the natural environment for the pet market. This
trade is a conservation issue and an economic income for many people, two aspects not …

Drones are widely used for wildlife monitoring. Deep learning algorithms are key to the
success of monitoring wildlife with drones, although they face the problem of detecting small …

Mining is one of the major pollution sources worldwide, causing huge disturbances to the
environment. Industrial and artisanal mining activities are widespread in Mexico, a major …

In 1997 the Mexican federal government implemented a system of wildlife use and
conservation units (UMAs [from its name in Spanish]) as a national strategy to promote …

Las unidades de manejo de vida silvestre (UMA) innovaron el aprovechamiento de vida
silvestre en México y hay casos que muestran su viabilidad. Sin embargo, desde el punto …

Although there is a pressing need for the reform of hunting governance and practice in many
countries, calls for blanket restrictions on trophy hunting assume that it is uniformly …

Conservation initiatives rarely achieve the scale required to respond to ongoing biodiversity
loss. Understanding what drives the adoption of conservation initiatives provides key …

Although tropical forest vertebrate populations are often heavily impacted by both habitat
loss and subsistence hunting, in many human‐dominated landscapes their fate depends on …