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de Lange E, Milner-Gulland EJ, Keane A, 2022, Effects of social networks on interventions to change conservation behavior, CONSERVATION BIOLOGY, Vol: 36, ISSN: 0888-8892
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Hinsley A, Wan AKY, Garshelis D, et al., 2022, Understanding why consumers in China switch between wild, farmed, and synthetic bear bile products, CONSERVATION BIOLOGY, Vol: 36, ISSN: 0888-8892
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Roberts DL, Mun K, Milner-Gulland EJ, 2022, A systematic survey of online trade: trade in Saiga antelope horn on Russian-language websites, ORYX, Vol: 56, Pages: 352-359, ISSN: 0030-6053
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Olmedo A, Verissimo D, Milner-Gulland EJ, et al., 2022, Uncovering prevalence of pangolin consumption using a technique for investigating sensitive behaviour, ORYX, Vol: 56, Pages: 412-420, ISSN: 0030-6053
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Roberts DL, Mun K, Milner-Gulland EJ, 2022, A systematic survey of online trade: trade in Saiga antelope horn on Russian-language websites (Apr, pg 1, 2021), ORYX, Vol: 56, Pages: 476-476, ISSN: 0030-6053
de Lange E, Dobson A, Milner-Gulland EJ, et al., 2022, Combining simulation and empirical data to explore the scope for social network interventions in conservation
<p>Conservationists can use social network analysis to improve targeting for behaviour-change interventions, selecting individuals to target who will go on to inform or influence others. However, collecting sociometric data is expensive. Using empirical data from a case study in Cambodia and simulations we examine the conditions under which collecting this data is cost-effective. Our results show that targeting interventions using sociometric data can lead to greater dissemination of information and adoption of new behaviours. However, these approaches are not cost-effective for small interventions implemented in only a few communities, and it is an order of magnitude cheaper to achieve the same results by simply targeting more individuals in each community at random. For interventions across multiple communities, network data from one community could inform rules-of-thumb that can be applied to boost the effectiveness of interventions. In rural Cambodia, this approach is worthwhile if it can inform interventions covering at least 21 villages. Our findings provide a framework for understanding how insights from network sciences, such as targeting clusters of individuals for interventions that aim to change behaviour, can make a practical contribution to conservation.</p>
Bull JW, Taylor I, Biggs E, et al., 2022, Analysis: the biodiversity footprint of the University of Oxford, NATURE, Vol: 604, Pages: 420-424, ISSN: 0028-0836
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Booth H, Mourato S, Milner-Gulland EJ, 2022, Operationalising marine tourism levies to cover the opportunity costs of conservation for coastal communities
<p>Marine tourism is promoted as a substitute economic activity to unsustainable fishing, which is compatible with conservation. However, benefits of marine tourism do not typically accrue in small-scale fisheries (SSFs), which often bear the costs of conservation; they accrue to tourists and to tourist-focussed businesses. We explored how marine tourism levies could operationalise the beneficiary-pays principle and address these cost-benefit inequities using an online contingent valuation (CV) survey to measure international tourists’ willingness-to-pay (WTP) towards community-based shark conservation (N = 1,033). Levies were widely supported (96%), with a median and Turnbull mean WTP of US$ 10-14.99 and $22.02 per person per day, respectively. We combined these results with field data from two marine tourism hotspots in Indonesia – Lombok and Pulau Weh - to explore the feasibility of implementing tourism levies to incentivise pro-conservation behaviour in local SSFs. Our conservative estimates indicate that conservation levies in Lombok and Pulau Weh could respectively generate US$ 2.3 –10 million and US$ 300,000 – 1.3 million annually – several times greater than the estimated costs of conservation incentives in local SSFs. The marine tourism industry offers an under-utilised revenue stream for marine conservation, which could support policy aspirations such as ‘a sustainable and equitable blue economy’.</p>
Paudel K, Hinsley A, Verissimo D, et al., 2022, Evaluating the reliability of media reports for gathering information about illegal wildlife trade seizures, PEERJ, Vol: 10, ISSN: 2167-8359
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Oyanedel R, Gelcich S, Mathieu E, et al., 2022, A dynamic simulation model to support reduction in illegal trade within legal wildlife markets, CONSERVATION BIOLOGY, Vol: 36, ISSN: 0888-8892
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Brittain S, Rowcliffe MJ, Kentatchime F, et al., 2022, Comparing interview methods with camera trap data to inform occupancy models of hunted mammals in forest habitats, CONSERVATION SCIENCE AND PRACTICE, Vol: 4
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Khanyari M, Robinson S, Morgan ER, et al., 2022, Identifying relationships between multi-scale social-ecological factors to explore ungulate health in a Western Kazakhstan rangeland, PEOPLE AND NATURE, Vol: 4, Pages: 382-399
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Hazenbosch M, Sui S, Isua B, et al., 2022, The times are changing: understanding past, current and future resource use in rural Papua New Guinea using participatory photography, WORLD DEVELOPMENT, Vol: 151, ISSN: 0305-750X
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Pienkowski T, Keane A, de Lange E, et al., 2022, Personal traits predict conservationists' optimism about outcomes for nature, CONSERVATION LETTERS, Vol: 15, ISSN: 1755-263X
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Li Y, Arias M, Hinsley A, et al., 2022, International media coverage of the Bolivian jaguar trade, PEOPLE AND NATURE, Vol: 4, Pages: 115-126
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Khanyari M, Milner-Gulland EJ, Oyanedel R, et al., 2022, Investigating parasite dynamics of migratory ungulates for sustaining healthy populations: Application to critically-endangered saiga antelopes Saiga tatarica, BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION, Vol: 266, ISSN: 0006-3207
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Dobson A, Hopcraft G, Mduma S, et al., 2022, Savannas are vital but overlooked carbon sinks, SCIENCE, Vol: 375, Pages: 392-392, ISSN: 0036-8075
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Challender DWS, Brockington D, Hinsley A, et al., 2022, Mischaracterizing wildlife trade and its impacts may mislead policy processes, CONSERVATION LETTERS, Vol: 15, ISSN: 1755-263X
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Challender DWS, Brockington D, Hinsley A, et al., 2022, Accurate characterization of wildlife trade and policy instruments: Reply to D'Cruze et al. (2022) and Frank and Wilcove (2022), CONSERVATION LETTERS, Vol: 15, ISSN: 1755-263X
Grace MK, Akcakaya HR, Bennett EL, et al., 2021, Testing a global standard for quantifying species recovery and assessing conservation impact, CONSERVATION BIOLOGY, Vol: 35, Pages: 1833-1849, ISSN: 0888-8892
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Doughty HL, Lim N, Carrasco LR, et al., 2021, Product attributes affecting the substitutability of saiga horn drinks among young adult consumers in Singapore, CONSERVATION SCIENCE AND PRACTICE, Vol: 3
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Arlidge WNS, Firth JA, Alfaro-Shigueto J, et al., 2021, Assessing information-sharing networks within small-scale fisheries and the implications for conservation interventions, ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE, Vol: 8, ISSN: 2054-5703
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Booth H, Ichsan M, Hermansyah RF, et al., 2021, A socio-psychological approach for understanding and managing bycatch in small-scale fisheries
<p>Fisheries bycatch is the greatest threat to migratory, long-lived marine animals. Managing bycatch can be particularly problematic in small-scale mixed-species fisheries, where perceptions of target and non-target vary widely, and all catches have economic or subsistence value. Such fisheries are ubiquitous throughout the world’s oceans, and represent a cross-disciplinary challenge for biodiversity, food security and livelihoods. We offer a novel approach for addressing this challenge, drawing on well-established theories from behavioural and social sciences. We first typify bycatch as a spectrum rather than a clearly delineated component of catch, where the position of a species on this spectrum depends on fishers’ beliefs regarding the outcomes of bycatch-relevant behaviour. We then outline an approach to diagnose the underlying socio-psychological drivers of bycatch, based on the Theory of Planned Behaviour. Finally, we illustrate the approach using an empirical case study, exploring fishers’ beliefs regarding bycatch-relevant behaviour for three endangered species in a small-scale gill net fishery in Indonesia. We show how a socio-psychological approach can help to identify conflicts and synergies between bycatch mitigation and fishers’ beliefs, thus informing more effective and socially-just interventions for marine megafauna conservation. We emphasize the need to understand human dimensions of bycatch, especially in SSFs, where technical fixes alone will be insufficient to change behaviour. Rather, interdisciplinary approaches are needed to align fishers’ needs with conservation objectives. Our spectrum and approach could be widely applied for disentangling drivers of bycatch in other SSFs, and designing interventions which support effective and equitable marine conservation.</p>
Booth H, Ramdlan MS, Hafizh A, et al., 2021, Designing locally-appropriate conservation incentives for small-scale fishers
<p>Large, long-lived marine animals (‘marine megafauna’) are amongst the world’s most threatened taxa, primarily due to overfishing. Reducing fisheries’ impacts on marine megafauna is particularly challenging in small-scale fisheries (SSFs), where endangered species can have important consumptive use values. Payments for ecosystem services (PES) have been proposed as a potential solution, but there is a lack of empirical data on if and how they might work in this context. We present a novel combination of methods – scenario interviews with contingent valuation (CV) – for exploring and designing locally-appropriate PES schemes, and apply these methods to investigate how different types of incentives might influence fisher behaviour and mortality of Critically Endangered taxa in two case study SSFs in Indonesia. Fishers almost unanimously supported positive performance-based incentives: 98% and 96% of fishers would stop landing hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna spp.) and wedgefish (Rhynchobatus spp.), respectively, in contrast to 1% and 6% under a business-as-usual scenario, and 52% and 46% in response to a negative incentive (fine). CV results showed that an incentive-based scheme for catch mitigation of all hammerheads and wedgefish across both sites could cost US$71,408 - 235,927 annually, and save up to 18,500 and 2,140 individuals, respectively. This study provides empirical evidence that PES could offer a cost-effective and socially-just approach for marine conservation in SSFs, and offers a scalable method for designing locally-appropriate investment-ready schemes, which could support the delivery of global policy goals such as net positive outcomes for marine biodiversity and a sustainable and equitable blue economy.</p>
de Lange E, Milner-Gulland EJ, Yim V, et al., 2021, Using mixed methods to understand sensitive wildlife poisoning behaviours in northern Cambodia, ORYX, Vol: 55, Pages: 889-902, ISSN: 0030-6053
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Davis KJ, Alfaro-Shigueto J, Arlidge WNS, et al., 2021, Local disconnects in global discourses-The unintended consequences of marine mammal protection on small-scale fishers, CONSERVATION LETTERS, Vol: 14, ISSN: 1755-263X
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Ibbett H, Keane A, Dobson ADM, et al., 2021, Estimating hunting prevalence and reliance on wild meat in Cambodia's Eastern Plains, ORYX, Vol: 55, Pages: 878-888, ISSN: 0030-6053
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- Citations: 7
Oyanedel R, Gelcich S, Milner-Gulland EJ, 2021, A framework for assessing and intervening in markets driving unsustainable wildlife use, SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT, Vol: 792, ISSN: 0048-9697
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Arias M, Hinsley A, Nogales-Ascarrunz P, et al., 2021, Complex interactions between commercial and noncommercial drivers of illegal trade for a threatened felid, ANIMAL CONSERVATION, Vol: 24, Pages: 810-819, ISSN: 1367-9430
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Hinsley A, Hu S, Chen H, et al., 2021, Combining data from consumers and traditional medicine practitioners to provide a more complete picture of Chinese bear bile markets, PEOPLE AND NATURE, Vol: 3, Pages: 1064-1077
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- Citations: 4
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