fbpx

EDITORIALS

Community-Based Conservation in Pakistan– here, sustainability means ‘If it pays, it stays.’


image_pdf

Pakistan’s Himalayan ungulates—ibex, markhor, urial—and their natural predators are rebounding since the IUCN, the WWF and development groups created an incentive-based, locally managed conservation hunting program. The earned funds have also allowed villages to build infrastructure while a new environmental sensibility has reduced human-wildlife conflict. READ MORE

A Chance to Stop Chronic Wasting Disease


image_pdf

By the end of 2022, CWD was threatening deer, elk, moose and caribou populations in at least 30 US states and five Canadian provinces. The CWD Research & Management Act can provide funding to help stem the spread of this infectious disease.
READ MORE

Silvio Calabi

An Update from the Editor


image_pdf

The Conservation Frontlines Foundation currently publishes two monthly bulletins: Frontline Dispatches, which is e-mailed on the first of each month; and, in the middle of each month, Conservation 101. Our long-form quarterly e-zine, Conservation Frontlines, is on hiatus, but back issues are available in our archive. We are also active on social media.READ MORE

Let’s Forge Conservation Coalitions


image_pdf

Antagonism between hunters and those who don’t like hunting is probably the single biggest reason why a powerful natural alliance to conserve and enhance wildlife and wildlife habitat is elusive to this day—although it could literally move mountains and overcome most obstacles facing ecosystem conservation. 

READ MORE

It’s About the Future—Yours, Ours & Theirs


image_pdf

In January, more than 50 countries—the High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People; in short, HAC—announced a bold commitment: That the Conference of Parties of the Convention on Biodiversity, scheduled for October in Kunming, China, agree to protect at least 30% of the planet’s lands and oceans by 2030. Science justifies this bold 30×30 target at the global and regional levels.READ MORE

A New Year, New Horizons


image_pdf

Yes, 2020 was awful. But I am optimistic that 2021 will see our lives and work eventually return to normal. Then again, who dares make predictions? Still, let’s focus on the future and new opportunities for conservation on all continents.READ MORE