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There is a growing trend to import another Americanism into the Canadian anti-money laundering strategy: a whistleblower incentive program that would amount to bounty hunting for violations.
Anthropologists believed that before the implementation of agriculture, men hunted and women gathered, but new evidence suggests that this might not have been the case.
Debates centred on the role of recreational hunting in supporting nature conservation and local people’s livelihoods are among the most polarising in conservation today.
Historical photographs of bison extermination are a window into a history of relationships between humans, bison and the environment.
New research is challenging the hypothesis that men did the hunting in prehistoric societies.
For the first time in the US, a ballot measure will ask voters whether to restore wolves to a place where they’ve been eradicated. Coloradans have strong views on both sides.
The “Tasmanian tiger” was hunted to extinction based on its perceived size as a predator big enough to take sheep. But it seems this was just a tall tale, and the thylacine weighed just 16.7kg.
Enforcement at protected areas is key way to prevent bushmeat poaching, but it’s also important to recognise the contribution bushmeat makes to livelihoods, incomes and food security.
Illegal hunters are damaging farm property, shooting at buildings and killing livestock. So why do farm trespass laws target animal activists?
All animals plays a role in nature, and in times of biodiversity loss and climate change, hunting “common” species such as foxes and badgers is irresponsible .
In the 1800s, Americans hunted many wild species near or into extinction. Then in the early 1900s, the US shifted from uncontrolled consumption of wildlife to conservation. Could Asia follow suit?
Frogs are harvested as food by the millions every year. A new study shows that uncontrolled frog hunting could drive some populations to extinction by midcentury.
Researchers have discovered an alarming new threat to one of the most incredible wildlife migrations on Earth.
For decades, the extinction of passenger pigeons has been explained by two theories of human impact. New research shows one of these theories is now more compelling than the other.
The novel is timely in light of the fact that, increasingly, readers are invited to consider what responsibilities they need to assume in the face of women’s disclosures about their life stories.
This diminutive deer isn’t the only fantastical life form discovered in Vietnam. But hunting and habitat destruction threaten many with extinction.
Europe is getting wilder as more people live in cities, but Naya’s death shows this trend may have limits.
In the absence of animals to help larger trees reproduce, forests are suffering.
Scientists have discovered how the wise old barn owl is so good at catching rodents.
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Environmental Social Scientist, Newcastle University
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Professor in Tourism, North-West University
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Honorary Research Fellow, UCL
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Associate professor, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Wildlife Conservation, University of Tasmania
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Emeritus Professor, Environmental Science, James Cook University
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Biologist with Raincoast Conservation Foundation and postdoctoral fellow, University of Victoria
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Reader in Evolutionary Ecology, Queen Mary University of London
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Emeritus Research Professor of African Ecology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Research Associate, Institute for the Future of Knowledge, University of Johannesburg
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Researcher, Stellenbosch University
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Emeritus professor, School of Regulation and Global Governance, ANU, Australian National University
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Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University
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Professor of Pyrogeography and Fire Science, University of Tasmania
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James Cook University
