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Restoring Asia’s roar: Opportunities for tiger recovery across the historic range

By amyvangelderConservation Papers

Adapted from abstract: Wildlife conservation in the Anthropocene requires bold conservation solutions including restoration of ecosystems and species. The recovery of large carnivore populations is a conservation goal which can...

11th May 2023

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Assessing Project Proposals Based on National and Global Tiger Action Plans

By amyvangelderConservation Papers

Tigers play a crucial role in maintaining healthy ecosystems. Unfortunately, tigers are threatened by poaching, human–wildlife conflict, habitat loss, and more. In response to these threats, the conservation community pledged...

26th January 2023

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Is the Lesser Khingan Suitable for the Amur Tiger Restoration?

By amyvangelderConservation Papers

The Amur tiger has a status of being endangered on the world’s IUCN red list. The northwestern part of its range is situated in Russia and China, where tigers were...

26th January 2023

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Enabling sustainable community-based human-tiger conflict management

By amyvangelderConservation Papers

Human-wildlife conflict has emerged as one of the major threats to the global population of large carnivores. This condition applies to the endemic and Critically Endangered Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris...

26th January 2023

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Compendium of tiger protected areas

By estherconwayConservation Papers, News

The Global Tiger Forum (GTF) has released an updated compendium of Global Tiger Protected Areas in time for Global Tiger Day 2021. The reference tool contains details of all 13...

30th July 2021

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Impacts of Covid‐19 on protected and conserved areas

By estherconwayConservation Papers

Abstract Protected and conserved areas (PCAs) throughout the world face huge challenges as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. We give a global overview of impacts and responses. Protected area...

7th May 2021

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How many bird and mammal extinctions has recent conservation action prevented?

By estherconwayConservation Papers

Abstract Aichi Target 12 of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) contains the aim to ‘prevent extinctions of known threatened species’. To measure the degree to which this was achieved,...

15th March 2021

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Equitable sharing of benefits from tiger conservation

By estherconwayConservation Papers

Abstract Costs of large predator conservation may not be equitably distributed among stakeholders; these include farming communities, tourism business owners and visitors. Financial redistribution mechanisms based on accrued benefits and...

10th February 2021

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COVID-19: Need More Effective Wildlife Trade Legislation

By estherconwayConservation Papers

Abstract Zoonosis-based epidemics are inevitable unless we revisit our relationship with the natural world, protect habitats, and regulate wildlife trade, including live animals and nonsustenance products. To prevent future zoonoses,...

30th November 2020

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Distemper, extinction, and vaccination of the Amur tiger

By estherconwayConservation Papers, WVI CDV

Abstract Canine distemper virus (CDV) has recently emerged as an extinction threat for the endangered Amur tiger (Panthera tigris altaica). CDV is vaccine-preventable, and control strategies could require vaccination of...

25th November 2020

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How Important Are Resistance, Dispersal Ability, Population Density and Mortality in Temporally Dynamic Simulations of Population Connectivity?

By estherconwayConservation Papers

Abstract Development of landscape connectivity and spatial population models is challenging, given the uncertainty of parameters and the sensitivity of models to factors and their interactions over time. Using spatially...

4th November 2020

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Area-based conservation in the twenty-first century

By estherconwayConservation Papers

Abstract Humanity will soon define a new era for nature—one that seeks to transform decades of underwhelming responses to the global biodiversity crisis. Area-based conservation efforts, which include both protected...

27th October 2020

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