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22/08/2025

🌏Collection of Articles on Pest Management🌍

Modern pest management embraces innovative approaches. Studies on predicting community participation in passive pest surveillance enhance monitoring networks through citizen engagement. Meanwhile, utilizing barn owls as a nature-based solution offers sustainable rodent control, supporting biodiversity and reducing chemical use in regions and beyond.

Predicting Community Participation in Passive Pest Surveillance
https://reurl.cc/5RRpXv

Barn Owls as a Nature-Based Solution for Pest Control: A Multinational Initiative Around the Mediterranean and Other Regions
https://brnw.ch/21wV6RF

Pest rodents cause extensive damage to crops worldwide. Up to 40% of global crop production is lost annually to pests and diseases, with rodents accounting for 15–30% of this loss amounting to billions of dollars each year. The current method of controlling rodent populations involves the extensiv...

20/08/2025

🌏Collection of Articles on Wildlife Trade🌎

The global wildlife trade manifests in both overt and subtle forms, as evidenced by recent research into the primate pet trade on TikTok and the role of corruption in South African trophy hunting. These studies reveal how modern digital platforms can normalize the exotic pet market, while systemic corruption in certain regions facilitates unethical hunting practices. Together, they underscore the complex economic, social, and regulatory drivers behind wildlife exploitation, highlighting an urgent need for strengthened digital governance and anti-corruption measures to protect vulnerable species.

Investigating the Extent and Nature of the Primate Pet Trade on TikTok
https://reurl.cc/ekM3Ex

Examining the Influence of Corruption on the Practice of Trophy Hunting in South Africa
https://reurl.cc/9nDGrV

This study examines the perceived influence of corruption on the practice of trophy hunting in South Africa, the largest trophy exporter in Africa. Corruption is a major problem in South Africa, where it takes the form of bribery and embezzlement. To investigate its perceived effects on the practice...

14/08/2025

🌏Collection of Articles on Conservation Knowledge🌎

These studies examine diverse conservation approaches: comparing engagement messaging (e.g., citizen science on campuses), analyzing Tanzania's livelihood-driven illegal activities, designing Arizona's innovative strategies, and dissecting nature portrayals in Australian children's TV. They collectively highlight multidimensional solutions spanning socioeconomics, public involvement, and cultural communication.

Illegal Activities for Survival: Understanding the Influence of Household Livelihood Security on Biodiversity Conservation in Tanzania
https://reurl.cc/pYvy9Q

Charting the Future of Conservation in Arizona: Innovative Strategies for Preserving Its Natural Resources
https://reurl.cc/DOl6qj

Using Citizen Science to Document Biodiversity on a University Campus: A Year-Long Case Study
https://reurl.cc/WONL0y

Environmental Representation on Australian Children’s Television: An Analysis of Conservation Messages and Nature Portrayals
https://reurl.cc/EQ6zV0

Does Active or Informative Messaging Result in Greater Conservation Engagement?
https://reurl.cc/9n3XDd

Strategic communication can motivate target audiences to take conservation action. Yet, whether audiences are motivated by more information or more influential visuals is unclear. Using online surveys, we compared different visual communication strategies using text, graphics, and photographs for en...

11/08/2025

🌏Collection of Articles on Wildlife Conservation🌎

These manuscripts explores the urgent crisis facing Earth's biodiversity. Habitat loss, climate change, and human conflict threaten countless species. Through diverse perspectives and scientific insights, the papers try to illuminate pressing conservation challenges, celebrate vital successes, and underscore humanity’s profound responsibility—and capacity—to protect our irreplaceable wildlife heritage for future generations.

🐢Living in a Thermally Diverse Environment: Field Body Temperatures and Thermoregulation in Hermann’s Tortoise, Testudo hermanni, in Montenegro
https://reurl.cc/EQ40nA

🐦Correlates of Bird Collection Compositions in Thai Zoos: Implications for Conservation and Management
https://reurl.cc/890a2o

🦇Evading the Ghost of Extinction: A Case Study for the Reintroduction of Ghost Bats (Macroderma gigas)
https://reurl.cc/GN46b3

🐦Mitigating Acute Climate Change Threats to Reintroduced Migratory Northern Bald Ibises
https://reurl.cc/2Qz9oa

🐋Genetic S*x Determination of Free-Ranging Short-Finned Pilot Whales from Blow Samples
https://reurl.cc/kore79

Whale blow, the v***r exhaled during respiration of cetaceans, provides valuable genetic information to monitor health status and population dynamics. However, obtaining samples of sufficient quality and quantity remains a challenge, particularly for small odontocetes. Here, we developed both field....

07/08/2025

💐You Reap What You Sow: A Botanical and Economic Assessment of Wildflower Seed Mixes Available in Ireland

👉https://reurl.cc/GNKDMp👈

Keywords: bees; butterflies; floral subsidies; flower strips; invasive species; native plants; pollinators

🧐Planting wildflower seed mixes has become popular with individuals and community groups aiming to promote wildlife and enhance local biodiversity. Recently, however, these seed mixes have been criticized with respect to the origin of the seeds and the species they contain. There is a growing awareness that the unintended planting of exotic species may disrupt native ecological networks, introduce aggressive weeds, or facilitate the establishment of invasive species in new localities.

04/08/2025

🐸The European Market Remains the Largest Consumer of Frogs’ Legs from Wild Species

👉https://reurl.cc/daD23z👈

Keywords: anurans; consumption; eastern Europe; science–policy interface; Southeast Asia; trade regulation; unsustainable

🧐Mechanisms to help make the international trade in frogs’ legs sustainable are essential, and require international agreement and targeted efforts, ideally financed by the trade sector itself.

30/07/2025

🐚Benthic Fauna Assessment along the Navigation Channel from the Mouth of the Casamance Estuary to Ziguinchor City

👉 https://brnw.ch/21wUwXk 👈

Keywords: Casamance; estuary; Senegal; benthicfauna; biodiversity

🧐Overall, Spearman’s rank correlation indicated a significant negative correlation of the species abundance and species richness with distance from the estuary mouth. From these results, it appears that sediment type, depth of the sampled stations, salinity, and the mangrove forests are key factors that influence the distribution and abundance of benthic fauna in the Casamance estuary. The monitoring plans for the preservation of the health and biological diversity of this ecosystem, especially benthic fauna biodiversity, should take into consideration the seasonal variations of rainfalls and related changes in terms of physicochemical factors. This should include evaluating the long-term responses of benthic organisms to dredging activities, boat traffic, and especially physical habitat modifications, changes in migration ways, and pollution pressure.

24/07/2025

📚A Survey of the Role of Environmental Education in Biodiversity Conservation in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana

👉https://reurl.cc/XQjRg0👈

Keywords: biodiversity conservation; anthropogenic activities; environmental education; livelihoods; resources

🧐The study found that environmental education, particularly an awareness of biodiversity conservation, is critical for conserving biodiversity. The study calls for a revision of the environmental education syllabus at various levels, particularly the basic and SHS levels, including more practical topics to help people change their attitudes and perceptions and incorporate biodiversity into their daily activities.

21/07/2025

📸Climate Change and Urban Citizens: The Role of Media in Publicising the Conservation of Green Spaces and Mitigation of Air Pollution

👉https://rb.gy/9exj0m👈

Keywords: Tehran; climatechange; green space; AirPollution ; newspapers ; SQL

🧐It was found that the news articles mostly covered public awareness, followed by alarming messages on climate. The findings highlighted the critical role of researchers in generating scientific news while encouraging media for disseminating more educating messages on climate change in urban areas.

17/07/2025

💧🐟💧 Heavy Metal Pollution Reduced the Potentiality of Pen Culture in the Wetland Aquaculture in an Urban Area of Bangladesh

👉https://reurl.cc/A3krzE👈

keywords: penculture; water quality parameters; growth; production; netreturn

🧐The Belai beel serves as an important aquatic resource for the livelihood of the local community of the Gazipur district in Bangladesh. However, water pollution in recent times, mainly from industrial wastes and sewage effluents, may disrupt its aquatic environment. Thus, the purpose of the present study was to assess the potential area of pen fish culture in the Belai beel. The study was performed in the Rajbagan (L1), Kamaria (L2) and Rewla (L3) areas of the Belai beel. In the Rajbagan area, concentrations of Cd and Cu in the water coming from the industrial effluent canal exceeded the acceptable limit. Results indicated that the Rewla area was better than Rajbagan and Kamaria due to it having relatively good quality water for pen fish culture.

15/07/2025

🔥🚒🔥The Hell of Wildfires: The Impact on Wildlife and Its Conservation and the Role of the Veterinarian

👉 https://rb.gy/a3ra5r 👈

Keywords: mortality; burns; conservation; wildfire; wildlife; smoke

🧐In conclusion, we discuss better prevention and response measures in a wildfire scenario. This information can be used by veterinarians and all the entities involved in the prevention and combat of wildfires, and the general public has an important role in these situations.

11/07/2025

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🐒Valorisation of Madagascar’s Wildlife Trade and Wildlife Tourism: What Are the Conservation Benefits?

👉 https://brnw.ch/21wULcF 👈

Keywords: community-based conservation; Madagascar; resource management; wildlife economics; WildlifeTrade; wildlife tourism

🧐Utilising data sets collated from Madagascar’s Ministère du Tourisme and CITES, respectively, for the period 2007 to 2018, this study estimated levels of income from wildlife tourism and wildlife trade for Madagascar.