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Genomic data reveal shift in geographic source of an illegally traded songbird
Wildlife trade is one of the major contributors to biodiversity loss in Southeast Asia, especially in songbirds. Wildlife forensics using genomic...
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Comparisons of songbirds on sale across online and physical markets in Indonesia
Unsustainable wildlife trade is a leading threat to biodiversity, not least in Southeast Asia where serious overexploitation of songbirds has...
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A newly emerging trade in New Guinea’s butcherbirds (Cracticinae) in Indonesia
The very large demand for songbirds in Indonesia undermines the efforts of the Government of Indonesia to regulate and control harvest and trade. As...
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The Challenges of Conserving Biodiversity: A Spotlight on Southeast Asia
Biodiversity is being lost at a rapid pace, mainly due to anthropogenic pressures from a growing human population. Southeast Asia is a biodiversity...
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Levantine Sea: From Rhodes to Paleochora
As I ventured into the eastern dead end of the Mediterranean Sea, I first landed in Cyprus after having sailed over deep waters, strewn with enormous...
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When Governments Cannot Do It Anymore and When Capitalism, Neoliberal Policies and Globalization Get Imposed Without Democracy: Self-Organization in the HKH Region Beyond E. Ostrom and Facebook
Since the time of ‘Enlightenment’ the term modernity carried something positive, new and exciting that most people could easily relate to, being...
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Values and Ethics in Conservation
Ethics and values have been foundational to conservation biology as a mission-driven discipline dedicated to a moral imperative –preserving global...
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Conservation Genetics
Concerns about loss of genetic diversity in wild populations in the 1960s and 1970s contributed to the subsequent emergence and agenda of...
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The Varieties of Social Contracts
We examine some eighteenth- and nineteenth-century views on vegetarianism as a prelude to the post-Cartesian rejection of the concept of animals as...
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Between the Theoretical and the Hypothetical
A broad examination of numerous unresolved gaps in the scientific and cultural embrace of ecological non-violence concludes with Jain intimations of...
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Birds of Ometepe (Nicaragua) and La Suerte (Costa Rica): From a Narrative and Species Lists Over Species Richness and Bird Photo Documentations to a Central American Conservation Ornithology
Virtually everywhere, birds draw a crowd and receive great public attention. Our fascination with, and reverence for, birds was underscored by the...
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Historical biogeography of tits (Aves: Paridae, Remizidae)
Tits (Aves: Paroidea) are distributed all over the northern hemisphere and tropical Africa, with highest species numbers in China and the Afrotropic....
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Palaeoclimatic events, dispersal and migratory losses along the Afro-European axis as drivers of biogeographic distribution in Sylvia warblers
BackgroundThe Old World warbler genus Sylvia has been used extensively as a model system in a variety of ecological, genetic, and morphological...
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Application of landscape ecology
The language game of landscape ecology entails several action-guiding verbs like “promote”, “enhance”, “restore”, “preserve”, “safeguard”, “ensure”,...