This never-before observed behaviour can tell us a lot about whale intelligence.
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Understanding how rural communities use fire is the first step in managing it.
New research used whaling logbooks to explain why only two of the four bowhead whale populations are bouncing back from whaling, which was abandoned a century ago.
The meat of wild animals, or wild meat, is a big part of the diets of millions of people in central Africa.
The age of the oldest known Oldowan stone tools from east Turkana has been pushed back by 700,000 years.
The discovery that small stone arrow tips were treated with plant poison 60,000 years ago means that ancient African hunters were capable of complex thinking.
As trail hunting is set to be banned in England and Wales, hunt saboteurs and police officers discuss their ‘unlikely alliance’ in monitoring fox hunts.
Hunting advocacy organizations and politicians are inciting a moral panic about grizzly bears, oversimplifying an inherently complex ecological problem.
There’s no evidence men are wired to use fire any more than women – yet, across cultures, it’s common to find bands of blokes bonding over the barbie.
A polar scientist explains the changes hunters who rely on the ice are seeing off Utqiagvik, and how those shifts are echoed in satellite data and climate models.
It’s not every day that you see a 4-foot-tall bird, but it’s happening more often. Several fascinating species are nesting in and near towns once again.
To protect wildlife, pets, farmed animals and people, lead ammunition needs to be replaced by non-lead alternatives everywhere.
Blending livelihood strategies based on what works at different times in specific environments has been key to human survival for thousands of years.
Stone tools from different sites suggest people long ago were connected over a huge region and shared ideas.
African pangolin exploitation might be motivated more by local demand for meat than international demand for scales.
A new archaeological study finds early evidence of white-tailed deer declines in the 17th century, likely driven by the commodification of deerskins under colonial capitalism.
A scholar who became a gun owner later in life found there is more to firearms than criminal violence, injury and death, and more to gun culture than democracy-destroying right-wing politics.
How can the benefits and risks of wild meat consumption be balanced to protect human health, wildlife and the environment?
End of the Game sparks critical conversations on wildlife conservation and responsible tourism.
This is the oldest confirmed use of a mixture comprising two or more plant toxins specifically applied to arrowheads.
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Environmental Social Scientist, Newcastle University
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Visiting Research Fellow, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Professor in Tourism, North-West University
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Honorary Research Fellow, UCL
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Visiting Research Fellow, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Assistant Professor in the Human Dimensions of Natural Resources, Colorado State University
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Professor of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology and Director, Center for Human-Carnivore Coexistence, Colorado State University
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Oppenheimer-Jamma Research Chair in African Wildlife Economies, Stellenbosch University
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Emeritus Research Professor of African Ecology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Assistant Professor of Environmental Biology and Faculty Co-Director of Center for Native Peoples and the Environment, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
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Emeritus Professor, Environmental Science, James Cook University
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Professor of Wildlife Conservation, University of Tasmania
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Associate professor, UNSW
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Research Associate, Department of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand; Chief Research Officer, Good Governance Africa; Managing Director, Harvey Economics Pty Ltd.
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PHD Graduate, School of Life and Environmental Sciences at Deakin University, Deakin University