In recent years, wildlife conservation has attracted great public attention. However, substantial distinctions can be found in the prevailing concepts of wildlife conservation, particularly with the recent notion that emphasizes animal rights. Wildlife welfare and wildlife rights are not synonymous, with welfare more compatible with the reasonable and legal utilization of wildlife. The key to s...

1 Wildlife Conservation Society, Bronx, New York, United States of America, 2 IUCN/SSC Cat Specialist Group, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, 3 Global Environment Facility, Washington, D.C., United States of America, 4 Wildlife Conservation Society, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, 5 Panthera, New York, New York, United States of America, 6 Wildlife Conservation Society, Vientiane, Lao People’...

a Wildlife Conservation Society, Mongolia Program, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia b Department of Environmental Conservation, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA c Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, and Department of Biological Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany d Wildlife Conservation Society, Global Conservation Program, Bronx, NY, USA e Smithsonian ...

Wildlife tourism can provide economic incentives for conservation. Due to the abundance of wildlife and the presence of charismatic species some areas are better suited to wildlife tourism. Our first objective was to develop criteria based on wildlife abundance and diversity to evaluate tourism potential in the Northern Conservation Zone of Botswana. Secondly we wanted to quantify and compare t...

Mongolia Program, Wildlife Conservation Society, Amar Str-3, ‘‘Internom’’ Bookstore Building, 3rd Floor, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (BB, AEF) Institute of Biology, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Ulaanbaatar 51, Mongolia (BB, BL) Department of Environmental Conservation, University of Massachusetts, 160 Holdsworth Way, Amherst, MA 01003, USA (BB, TKF) United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife ...

The conservation of tropical forest carbon stocks offers the opportunity to curb climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and simultaneously conserve biodiversity. However, there has been considerable debate about the extent to which carbon stock conservation will provide benefits to biodiversity in part because whether forests that contain high carbon density in t...

Conservation programs administrated by the United States Department of Agriculture under the Farm Bill have tremendous potential to impact wildlife habitat and populations on private land. Recent comprehensive reviews demonstrate that private landowners who participate in these programs have established habitats that may contribute to sustaining some regional wildlife populations. However, I ar...

A common justification for developing wildlife tourism attractions is that they help to secure long-term conservation of wildlife and wildlife habitats. Managers and guides often highlight their role in protecting wildlife and its habitat, yet little is known about the interests, needs and preferences of the tourists who participate in such activities – how aware are they of conservation issues...