A number of years ago I had the opportunity to visit Kakum National Park in Ghana, home of the endangered Diana monkey, giant bongo antelope, yellow-backed duiker and African elephant. I had hoped that it would afford me the opportunity to see some of the region’s endemic fauna. Sadly, all that I managed to…

The COVID pandemic, devastating fires in Australia, Siberia and California, floods in India and the UK - we are facing huge environmental challenges, which threaten our security and well-being.

Meanwhile, WWF’s most recent Living Planet Report indicates that populations of mammals, birds, fish, amphibians and reptiles have dropped by an…

The ocean provides 170 million tonnes of fisheries and aquaculture products for human use each year, accounting for 17% of animal protein consumed globally. Within this 17%, millions of small-scale fishers in developing nations are highly dependent on marine resources for food security and micro-nutrients. By 2050 we expect our…

Two years and a lifetime ago when we embarked as a community on a horizon scan process to identify possible game changing issues that would shape tomorrow’s decisions on illegal wildlife trade (IWT), Africa was growing at 3-5% annually and the continent’s leaders had just signed the African Continental Free Trade Area agreement, setting out a path for free movement of goods and…

In 2018, I started studying shark and ray fisheries in Malvan, a fishing town on India’s west coast. I would visit the landing centre three times a week and record the sharks and rays present, which involved identifying the species (most of which have very minute differences between them), taking measurements of…

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https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.12146181.v1

The coronavirus pandemic is likely to have a variety of unforeseen implications for people and wildlife. One early trend is a reported increase in …