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Investigating the international and pan‐African trade in giraffe parts and derivatives

04/03/2021

New article out today on Conservation Science and Practice: Investigating the international and pan‐African trade in giraffe parts and derivatives. Here we review the evidence and interview experts about giraffe trade, concluding in the end that ” the dynamics of legal and illegal trade and the use of giraffe parts vary throughout Africa, ranging from … [Read more…]

Posted in: Publications Tagged: Africa, expert, giraffe, Publication, review, Wildlife Trade

Ethical Publishing in Biodiversity Conservation Science

07/07/2020

For many researchers, particularly in academia, publishing in peer-reviewed journals is a necessity, with major implications for their career progression. Yet, it is increasingly recognised that the current scientific publishing model is not fair and equitable, which can have severe consequences for the way science is accessed and used in nature conservation. We evaluated the … [Read more…]

Posted in: Publications Tagged: Conservation, Conservation and Society, Criteria, Ecology, Ethics, Fair Open Access, Journal, Model, Open Access, Publication

Mainstreaming the social sciences in conservation

30/08/2016

A great collaborative project involving more than a dozen conservation social scientists from more than dozen social science fields! Find the Open Acess Paper here! And the abstract below! Despite broad recognition of the value of social sciences and increasingly vocal calls for better engagement with the human element of conservation, the conservation social sciences … [Read more…]

Posted in: Publications Tagged: Biodiversity, Conservation, conservation biology, Diogo Verissimo, Publication, social science

Scientific Evidence Supports a Ban on Microbeads

03/09/2015

Microplastic has been reported in every major open ocean and many freshwater lakes and rivers. Its small size makes it bioavailable to thousands of species across nearly all trophic levels. Because of the difficulty of large-scale cleanup, environmental managers, scientists, and environmentalists have stressed that the best solution to microplastic pollution is source reduction. Recently, … [Read more…]

Posted in: Publications Tagged: ban, bead, Biodiversity, Conservation, David H Smith, Environment, microbead, ocean, plastic, policy, pollution, Publication, sea, Smith Fellows, trash

Peer-review matters

02/11/2013

Many scientists invest their time peer-reviewing articles without receiving any compensation, besides a metaphorical pat on the back. To try and start tackling this issue me and Dave Roberts, also from the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, published a note in Trends in Ecology and Evolution on how we can put peer-reviewing on the map by making it … [Read more…]

Posted in: Publications Tagged: academia, Biodiversity, Diogo Verissimo, Peer-review, Publication, TREE, Trends in Ecology and Evolution

First record of the speckled forest-pitviper for the state of Acre, Brazil

13/05/2013

In another natural history short note me and a few colleagues document the finding of an adult specimen of Bothrops taeniatus Wagler, 1824 in the Municipality of Assis Brasil, in the  Rio Acre Ecological Station, Acre, Brazil. This is the first record of this species for the state of Acre, extending the species distribution globally by approximately 164 Km west. Find … [Read more…]

Posted in: Publications Tagged: Acre, Biodiversity, Bothrops taeniatus, Brazil, Check List, Herpetology, Natural History, Publication, Reptiles, snake, viper

Environmental education in São Tomé

10/04/2013

Last November I went out to work on a Environmental Education project lead with Ricardo Lima, in the small island country of São Tomé and Príncipe in West Africa. We visited hundreds of people in rural communities and dozens of classrooms across the country in an experience that undoubtedly made us realise how important these activities are and how they should … [Read more…]

Posted in: Publications Tagged: Biodiversity, Environment, Environmental Education, Publication, Report, São Tomé, São Tomé and Príncipe, West Africa

Study uncovers “cinderella species”for promoting conservation

12/04/2012

Images of tigers and elephants are among the most common threatened mammals used by conservation organisations as ‘flagships’ to promote fundraising – but new research led by the University suggests that other threatened ‘Cinderella species’ could prove equally effective. At the moment, only 80 flagship species are used by these NGOs, and more than 60% … [Read more…]

Posted in: Publications Tagged: article, Biodiversity, Cinderella species, Conservation flagships, Conservation Letters, DICE, Diogo Verissimo, Flagship species, Marketing, Publication

Marine flagships: The case of the giant Squid

02/01/2012

I was the lead author on a correspondence piece entitled “Selecting marine invertebrate flagship species: Widening the net”, published in the lastest issue of Biological Conservation. This piece is a reflection on the selection of conservation flagship species for groups traditionally deemed less charismatic. Read it here! This correspondence piece was a reply to the … [Read more…]

Posted in: Publications Tagged: Biological Conservation, Conservation flagships, Diogo Verissimo, Environment, Flagship species, Giant squid, Guerra et al., Letter to the Editor, Marketing, Publication, Social Marketing

New publication on Amazonian lizard

02/01/2012

I was a co-author on the paper “Distribution extension of Uracentron flaviceps (Guichenot, 1855) (Reptilia: Squamata): Second record for the state of Acre, Brazil” published in the journal Check List last December. Read it here! This small piece is a interesting contribution to the available knowledge on the natural history of this little know Amazonian … [Read more…]

Posted in: Publications Tagged: Amazon, Check List, Diogo Verissimo, Herpetology, Natural History, Publication, Uracentron flaviceps

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