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Conservation social science: Understanding and integrating human dimensions to improve conservation

It has long been claimed that a better understanding of human or social dimensions of environmental issues will improve conservation. The social sciences are one important means through which…
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Mainstreaming the social sciences in conservation

Mainstreaming the conservation social sciences will facilitate the uptake of the full range of insights and contributions from these fields into conservation policy and practice and enable more ecologically effective and socially just conservation.
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The manifold costs of being a non-native English speaker in science

The use of English as the common language of science represents a major impediment to maximising the contribution of non-native English speakers to science. Yet few studies have quantified the…
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Scientific Evidence Supports a Ban on Microbeads.

This work aims to demonstrate the efforts towards in-situ applicability of EMMARM, which aims to provide real-time information about the physical and emotional impacts of infectious disease on fish and wildlife populations.
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Digital data sources and methods for conservation culturomics

A conservation culturomics research framework that addresses data acquisition, analysis, and inherent biases is proposed and practical guidance is offered to help conservation researchers and practitioners identify and obtain the necessary data and carry out appropriate analyses for their specific questions, thus facilitating the wider adoption ofculturomics approaches for conservation applications.
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Toward a systematic approach for identifying conservation flagships

Flagship species are frequently used by conservation practitioners to raise funds and awareness for reducing biodiversity loss. However, uncertainty remains in the academic literature about the…
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Understanding Urban Demand for Wild Meat in Vietnam: Implications for Conservation Actions

The drivers of wild meat consumption and consumer preferences among residents of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam are explored to explore and indicate that demand for wild meat is heterogeneous and highly context specific.
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Identifying Cinderella species: uncovering mammals with conservation flagship appeal

It is found international conservation NGOs only used 80 flagship species and that 61% of their campaigns only raised funds for the species itself, but NGOs could overcome this by adopting some of these Cinderella species as new flagships.
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Ethical considerations when conservation research involves people

This work discusses ethical review procedures, conflicts of values, and power relations, and provides broad recommendations on how to navigate ethical challenges when they arise during research, to highlight the pressing need to develop ethical guidelines for conservation research that involves human participants.
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The role of species charisma in biological invasions

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