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Nigeria has only a few hundred elephants left. They are worth saving, for several reasons.
Global conservation efforts have suffered during the COVID-19 outbreak. It’s sadly ironic, because avoiding habitat loss is a cost-effective way to prevent pandemics.
If left unregulated, the unsustainable exploitation of leopards will have severe ecological and evolutionary costs.
What would you do if you saw a fisher breaking the law? Would you report the offender to the police? Confront them? Or would you do nothing? These choices affect the future of marine protected areas.
The destruction of a massive haul of illegal ivory was supposed to send a message to poachers and those who trade in the tusks. Did they notice, or can the ivory be used to help elephant conservation?
The idea that terror groups like Boko Haram fund their activities through ivory poaching in Africa is a compelling narrative. But it’s undermining wildlife conservation and human rights.
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Ecologist leading programs and organizations in conservation, The Ohio State University
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Professor of Anthropology, The Ohio State University
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Professor & ARC Laureate Fellow, Thriving Oceans Research Hub, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, Mathematics, The University of Queensland
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Lecturer in Visual Anthropology
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Professor in Conservation Science, School of the Environment, The University of Queensland
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Professor, Conservation Biology, The University of Queensland
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Postdoctoral research fellow, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland
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Professor and Chair, Southwestern Environmental Science and Policy, Northern Arizona University
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Research Fellow at the Centre for Planetary Health and Resilient Conservation Group, Griffith University
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Environmental Social Science Research Fellow, James Cook University
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Researcher, University of California, Berkeley
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Assistant Professor of Planetary Health, Maastricht University
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Conservation Scientist | Research Fellow, James Cook University
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Senior Lecturer in Conservation Ecology & Genetics, University of Cape Town