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Cheung H, Doughty H, Hinsley A, et al., 2021, Understanding Traditional Chinese Medicine to strengthen conservation outcomes, PEOPLE AND NATURE, Vol: 3, Pages: 115-128
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Milner-Gulland EJ, Addison P, Arlidge WNS, et al., 2021, Four steps for the Earth: mainstreaming the post-2020 global biodiversity framework, ONE EARTH, Vol: 4, Pages: 75-87, ISSN: 2590-3330
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- Citations: 43
Ingram DJ, Coad L, Milner-Gulland EJ, et al., 2021, Wild Meat Is Still on the Menu: Progress in Wild Meat Research, Policy, and Practice from 2002 to 2020, Publisher: ANNUAL REVIEWS
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Arias M, Hinsley A, Milner-Gulland EJ, 2020, Implementing the Ballot Box Method to reduce social desirability bias when researching sensitive behaviours in conservation
<p>Guidance on the design and implementation of the Ballot Box Method for indirect questioning on sensitive issues in conservation.</p>
Roe D, Dickman A, Kock R, et al., 2020, Beyond banning wildlife trade: COVID-19, conservation and development, WORLD DEVELOPMENT, Vol: 136, ISSN: 0305-750X
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Burgman M, Addison PFE, Stephenson PJ, et al., 2020, Bringing sustainability to life: A framework to guide biodiversity indicator development for business performance management, Business Strategy and the Environment, Vol: 29, Pages: 3303-3313, ISSN: 0964-4733
Biodiversity loss is a critical sustainability issue, and companies are beginning to seek ways to assess their biodiversity performance. Initiatives to date have developed biodiversity indicators for specific business contexts (e.g., spatial scales—from site, to product, to regional, or corporate scales); however, many are not widely translatable across different contexts making it challenging for businesses seeking indicators to manage their biodiversity performance. By synthesising the steps of common conservation and business decision‐making systems, we propose a framework to support more comprehensive development of quantitative biodiversity indicators, for a range of business contexts. The framework integrates experience from existing tried‐and‐tested conservation frameworks. We illustrate how our framework offers a pathway for businesses to assess their biodiversity performance and demonstrate responsible management by mitigating and reversing their biodiversity impacts and sustaining their dependencies, enabling them to demonstrate their contribution to emerging global biodiversity targets (e.g., Convention on Biological Diversity post‐2020 targets).
Arlidge W, Firth J, Alfaro-Shigueto J, et al., 2020, Assessing information-sharing networks within small-scale fisheries and the implications for conservation interventions
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>The effectiveness of biodiversity conservation interventions is often dependent on local resource users' underlying social interactions. However, it remains unclear how fine-scale differences in information shared between resource users can influence network structure and the success of behavior-change interventions. Using network null models that incorporate a pre-network data permutation procedure, we compare information-sharing networks in a Peruvian fishing community where a trial conservation intervention is underway to reduce the incidental capture of sea turtles (bycatch). We show that the general network structure detailing information sharing about sea turtle bycatch differs from other fishing-related information sharing, specifically in degree assortativity and eccentricity. This finding highlights the importance of assessing social networks in contexts directly relevant to the desired intervention and that fine-scale differences in the information shared between resource users may influence network structure. Our findings also demonstrate how null model approaches developed in the ecological sciences can elucidate important differences between human networks and identify the social contexts which might be more or less appropriate for information-sharing related to conservation interventions.</jats:p>
Arias M, Hinsley A, Nogales-Ascarrunz P, et al., 2020, Prevalence and characteristics of jaguar trade in north-western Bolivia
<p>Recent seizures of jaguar body parts in Bolivia have prompted concern about illegal trade to China, but concrete evidence is lacking. We interviewed 1107 people in a rural area implicated in the trade, using direct and indirect questions to explore the prevalence and characteristics of jaguar trade and its links to foreign demand. Jaguar trade is a common, non-sensitive practice; 46% of respondents reported some involvement over the past 5 years. Up to 31% of respondents owned jaguar body parts, most commonly skins, fat and teeth for decorative, medicinal, and cultural purposes. Contrary to expectations, Bolivians were the most reported traders, and presence of Caucasian traders was significantly and positively associated with jaguar trade, ahead of Asian and regional traders. Overall, jaguar trade in Bolivia has more diverse drivers than seizures may suggest. Therefore, conservation interventions, in addition to targeting Chinese demand, should address foreign and domestic trade chains.</p>
Olmedo A, Milner-Gulland EJ, Challender DWS, et al., 2020, A scoping review of celebrity endorsement in environmental campaigns and evidence for its effectiveness, CONSERVATION SCIENCE AND PRACTICE, Vol: 2
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Arias M, Hinsley A, Milner-Gulland EJ, 2020, Characteristics of, and uncertainties about, illegal jaguar trade in Belize and Guatemala, BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION, Vol: 250, ISSN: 0006-3207
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Doughty H, Wright J, Verissimo D, et al., 2020, Strategic advertising of online news articles as an intervention to influence wildlife product consumers, CONSERVATION SCIENCE AND PRACTICE, Vol: 2
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Oyanedel R, Gelcich S, Milner-Gulland EJ, 2020, A synthesis of (non-)compliance theories with applications to small-scale fisheries research and practice, FISH AND FISHERIES, Vol: 21, Pages: 1120-1134, ISSN: 1467-2960
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Beauchamp E, Hirons M, Brown K, et al., 2020, Twenty priorities for future social-ecological research on climate resilience, ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS, Vol: 15, ISSN: 1748-9326
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Arias M, Hinsley A, Nogales-Ascarrunz P, et al., 2020, Complex interactions between commercial and non-commercial drivers of illegal trade for a threatened felid
<p>Illegal trade and human-wildlife conflict are two key drivers of biodiversity loss, and are recognized as leading threats to large carnivores. While human-wildlife conflict involving jaguars (Panthera onca) has received significant attention in the past, less is known about traditional use or commercial trade in jaguar body parts, including their potential links with retaliatory killing. Understanding the drivers of jaguar killing, trade and consumption is necessary to develop appropriate jaguar conservation strategies, particularly as demand for jaguar products appears to be rising due to Chinese demand. We interviewed 1107 rural households in north-western Bolivia, an area with an active history of human-jaguar conflict, which has also been at the epicentre of recent jaguar trade cases involving Chinese demand. We collected information on participants’ experiences with jaguars, their jaguar killing, trading and consuming behaviours, and potential drivers of these behaviours. We found that the relationships between local people and jaguars are complex, and are driven largely by traditional practices, opportunism, human-jaguar conflict and market incentives from foreign and domestic demand, in the absence of law awareness and enforcement. Addressing jaguar trade and building human-jaguar coexistence will require a multifaceted approach that considers the multiple drivers of jaguar killing, trade and consumption, from foreign and local demand to human-jaguar conflict.</p>
Barychka T, Purves DW, Milner-Gulland EJ, et al., 2020, Modelling parameter uncertainty reveals bushmeat yields versus survival trade-offs in heavily-hunted duiker <i>Cephalophus</i> spp., PLOS ONE, Vol: 15, ISSN: 1932-6203
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Oyanedel R, Gelcich S, Milner-Gulland EJ, 2020, Motivations for (non-)compliance with conservation rules by small-scale resource users, CONSERVATION LETTERS, Vol: 13, ISSN: 1755-263X
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McNamara J, Robinson EJZ, Abernethy K, et al., 2020, COVID-19, systemic crisis, and possible implications for the wild meat trade in Sub-Saharan Africa, Environmental and Resource Economics, Vol: 76, Pages: 1045-1066, ISSN: 0924-6460
Wild animals play an integral and complex role in the economies and ecologies of many countries across the globe, including those of West and Central Africa, the focus of this policy perspective. The trade in wild meat, and its role in diets, have been brought into focus as a consequence of discussions over the origins of COVID-19. As a result, there have been calls for the closure of China’s “wet markets”; greater scrutiny of the wildlife trade in general; and a spotlight has been placed on the potential risks posed by growing human populations and shrinking natural habitats for animal to human transmission of zoonotic diseases. However, to date there has been little attention given to what the consequences of the COVID-19 economic shock may be for the wildlife trade; the people who rely on it for their livelihoods; and the wildlife that is exploited. In this policy perspective, we argue that the links between the COVID-19 pandemic, rural livelihoods and wildlife are likely to be more complex, more nuanced, and more far-reaching, than is represented in the literature to date. We develop a causal model that tracks the likely implications for the wild meat trade of the systemic crisis triggered by COVID-19. We focus on the resulting economic shockwave, as manifested in the collapse in global demand for commodities such as oil, and international tourism services, and what this may mean for local African economies and livelihoods. We trace the shockwave through to the consequences for the use of, and demand for, wild meats as households respond to these changes. We suggest that understanding and predicting the complex dynamics of wild meat use requires increased collaboration between environmental and resource economics and the ecological and conservation sciences.
Brittain S, Ibbett H, de Lange E, et al., 2020, Ethical considerations when conservation research involves people, CONSERVATION BIOLOGY, Vol: 34, Pages: 925-933, ISSN: 0888-8892
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Gupta T, Booth H, Arlidge W, et al., 2020, Mitigation of Elasmobranch Bycatch in Trawlers: A Case Study in Indian Fisheries, FRONTIERS IN MARINE SCIENCE, Vol: 7
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Esmail N, Wintle BC, t Sas-Rolfes M, et al., 2020, Emerging illegal wildlife trade issues: A global horizon scan, CONSERVATION LETTERS, Vol: 13, ISSN: 1755-263X
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- Citations: 42
Ibbett H, Milner-Gulland EJ, Beale C, et al., 2020, Experimentally assessing the effect of search effort on snare detectability, BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION, Vol: 247, ISSN: 0006-3207
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Milner-Gulland EJ, Addison P, Arlidge W, et al., 2020, Four Steps for the Earth: mainstreaming the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
<p>The upcoming meeting of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, and future adoption of the new Global Biodiversity Framework, represent an opportunity to transform humanity's relationship with nature. Restoring nature while meeting human needs requires a bold vision, but this will only succeed if biodiversity conservation can be mainstreamed in society. Here, we present an overarching framework that could support this mainstreaming: the Mitigation and Conservation Hierarchy. This novel framework places the well-established four-step Mitigation Hierarchy for mitigating and compensating the impacts of developments on biodiversity (1: Avoid, 2: Minimise, 3: Restore, 4: Offset, towards a target such as No Net Loss of biodiversity) within a broader framing that encompasses all conservation actions. We illustrate the potential application of the framework in four cases; national governments, sub-national levels (specifically the City of London, a fishery, and indigenous groups), companies, and the general public. The Mitigation and Conservation Hierarchy supports decisions about both the choice of actions to conserve and restore nature, and evaluation of the effectiveness of those actions, across sectors and scales. As such it can guide actions towards a sustainable future for people and nature in support of the CBD's vision.</p>
Betts J, Young RP, Hilton-Taylor C, et al., 2020, A framework for evaluating the impact of the IUCN Red List of threatened species, CONSERVATION BIOLOGY, Vol: 34, Pages: 632-643, ISSN: 0888-8892
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Akcakaya HR, Rodrigues ASL, Keith DA, et al., 2020, Assessing ecological function in the context of species recovery, CONSERVATION BIOLOGY, Vol: 34, Pages: 561-571, ISSN: 0888-8892
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Dobson ADM, Milner-Gulland EJ, Aebischer NJ, et al., 2020, Making Messy Data Work for Conservation, ONE EARTH, Vol: 2, Pages: 455-465, ISSN: 2590-3330
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- Citations: 42
Arlidge WNS, Alfaro-Shigueto J, Ibanez-Erquiaga B, et al., 2020, Evaluating elicited judgments of turtle captures for data-limited fisheries management, CONSERVATION SCIENCE AND PRACTICE, Vol: 2
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Griffiths VF, Bull JW, Baker J, et al., 2020, Incorporating local nature-based cultural values into biodiversity No Net Loss strategies, WORLD DEVELOPMENT, Vol: 128, ISSN: 0305-750X
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Booth H, Squires D, Milner-Gulland EJ, 2020, The mitigation hierarchy for sharks: A risk-based framework for reconciling trade-offs between shark conservation and fisheries objectives, FISH AND FISHERIES, Vol: 21, Pages: 269-289, ISSN: 1467-2960
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Kuiper T, Kavhu B, Ngwenya NA, et al., 2020, Rangers and modellers collaborate to build and evaluate spatial models of African elephant poaching, BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION, Vol: 243, ISSN: 0006-3207
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Mandimbihasina AR, Woolaver LG, Concannon LE, et al., 2020, The illegal pet trade is driving Madagascar's ploughshare tortoise to extinction, ORYX, Vol: 54, Pages: 188-196, ISSN: 0030-6053
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- Citations: 14
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