This research aims to foster discourse about the extent to which gender is important to consider within the context of participatory approaches for biological conservation. Our objectives are to: (1) gender-disaggregate data about stakeholders' risk perceptions associated with human-wildlife conflict (HWC) in a participatory conservation context, and (2) highlight insights from characterizing g...

Poor communication between academic researchers and wildlife managers limits conservation progress and innovation. As a result, input from overlapping fields, such as animal behaviour, is underused in conservation management despite its demonstrated utility as a conservation tool and countless papers advocating its use. Communication and collaboration across these two disciplines are unlikely t...

The connections between gender and wildlife use are diverse and depend on particular economic, cultural and ethnic contexts. Challenging the common exclusion of women from wildlife conservation, this article shows the important role played by gender even in situations where women are not direct users of wildlife. Women productive and reproductive unpaid work and their participation in decision-...

The purpose of this study is to improve environmental sustainability by identifying the most sustainable/least fragile three major wildlife conservation access models—open, government, and private—under varying socioeconomic conditions. private model sustainable models because it provides best information incentives balance needs humans wildlife, maintain general habitat, adapt quickly changing...

Public wildlife management in the United States is transforming as agencies seek relevancy to broader constituencies. State States, while tasked with conserving for all beneficiaries of trust, have tended manage a limited range benefits part due narrow funding model heavily dependent on hunting, fishing, and trapping license buyers. To best meet needs, interests, concerns suite beneficiaries, w...