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With the IPBES Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services reporting that 1 million species are at increased risk of extinction in the coming decades, ending trophy hunting may seem logical. However, bans on trophy hunting are likely to increase the challenge of protecting the world’s biodiversity. This is why 133 conservation researchers and practitioners signed a letter in the journal, Science, highlighting why hunting bans are ill advised. Read the full article 👉🏼http://bit.ly/3390Srm
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Since 2003, Pedro vaz Pinto has worked to conserve the giant or royal sable (Hippotragus niger variani, better known in Angola as Palanca negra). Thanks to his relentless efforts, this enigmatic antelope still thrives. Take a look at his latest report. #ConservationFirst #Wildlife #Antelope ... See MoreSee Less

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The Latest on Angola’s Giant Sable

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Since 2003, Pedro vaz Pinto has worked to conserve the giant or royal sable (Hippotragus niger variani, better known in Angola as Palanca Negra). This is his latest report from the Cangandala and Luan...

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A court in Tehran on November 20 handed down a guilty verdict for six cheetah researchers accused of spying, with sentences ranging from six to ten years. The researchers all work for the Persian Wildlife Heritage Foundation (PWHF), a Tehran-based non-profit conservation organization dedicated to saving the Asiatic cheetah and other species. They have spent almost two years in jail since their arrest in early 2018. Scientists and conservationists condemned the verdict, warning about the dangers of mixing politics and conservation. Read the full story here.
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Cheetah researchers accused of spying sentenced in Iran

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Scientists and conservationists condemned the verdict, warning about the dangers of mixing politics and conservation.

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We’ve got all the latest news and updates about hunting and conservation from around the world in one easy spot for you. Take a look at this month’s Frontline Dispatches to stay informed.
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Current Issue: Frontline Dispatches

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Respectful, evidence-driven debate is absent from popular activist movements. While international conservation scientists were holding a considered debate on trophy hunting – with all the pros and cons – rabid activists were digging up imaginary dirt on them. To discredit scientists who hold different views to their own, Campaign against Trophy Hunting and others overlooked all of the declarations made by scientists in the anti-hunting camp revealing funding from anti-hunting organisations like the Born Free Foundation. Read the full article here.
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OPINIONISTA: Activists shoot down scientists — and we all lose

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Respectful, evidence-driven debate is absent from popular activist movements. While international conservation scientists were holding a considered debate on trophy hunting – with all the pros and c...

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In honor of Thanksgiving for our US friends, we share some fun facts about turkeys. Did you know that a turkey’s gender can be determined from its droppings? Or that the wild turkey was hunted nearly to extinction in the early 1900s, when the population reached a low of around 30,000 birds nationwide? However, restoration programs across North America have brought the numbers up to about 7 million today. Get many more fascinating turkey facts in this article.
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14 Fun Facts About Turkeys

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#8: A turkey's gender can be determined from its droppings

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A deer considered extinct in Thailand may not be after all. The wild population of Schomburgk’s deer was thought to have died out in 1932, and the last known animal in captivity died in 1938. However, on August 30, Northwestern University reported that a pair of antlers with traces of fresh blood on them, found in 1991 and recently re-examined, indicate that the species “survived for at least an additional half century and might still be around today.” Read more in our Dispatch 👉🏼 http://bit.ly/3390Srm ... See MoreSee Less

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Most threats to wildlife come from damage to habitat or poaching. More and more, however, wildlife also is threatened when hunters and non-hunters, both conservation-minded, fight each other instead of working together. When uninformed emotion and outrage interfere with sound conservation practices, “poll politics” prevail. Sustainable wildlife conservation relies on science, experience, ethics and logic; and conservation leadership must communicate this to the public. Conservation Frontlines seeks to spark conversations, shift perspectives and inspire new ideas. Accompany us on our journeys—sign up for our e-newsletters and magazines. Subscriptions are FREE! 👉🏼 http://bit.ly/2Ow8Nut
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What is Conservation Frontlines? We are an editorially independent, not-for-profit newsroom that publishes a quarterly e-magazine and monthly news updates devoted to ethical hunting and modern conservation. Our editors and authors offer independent thought, opinion and insight. We do not shy away from problematic or complex issues. Our writings are founded on ecological, social and economic data. Learn more about our organization here.
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Why We Do This

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The Conservation Frontlines team selected a range of new peer-reviewed scientific papers and compiled them here for you to review. Scan the abstracts to get an overview of the piece and click the link to see the full version. See more. #ConservationFirst #Wildlife ... See MoreSee Less

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Abstracts of Recently Published Papers on Hunting & Conservation

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The Conservation Frontlines Team selected a range of new scientific, peer- reviewed papers. Scan the abstracts to get an overview. All items have links to the original papers. Ecological Effects of Fr...

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For the first time, northern white rhino embryos have been created in vitro. This “assisted reproduction” by scientists in Italy—working with others in Kenya, Germany and the Czech Republic—may be a turning point for the species, which was down to just two females in 2018. Their eggs were fertilized with frozen sperm from deceased males. The embryos, now stored in liquid nitrogen, will be transferred into a surrogate mother in the near future. Read more in our Dispatch 👉🏼 http://bit.ly/3390Srm ... See MoreSee Less

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The helmeted hornbill, a large and spectacular bird found only in intact tropical forests of Southeast Asia, is being driven into extinction by a sharp rise in poaching and illegal trade in bill ivory and tailfeathers. A Time Chiangrai story reports that poachers kill the female birds and catch the chicks, which are in great demand in China. Find the story on our Dispatch 👉🏼 http://bit.ly/3390Srm ... See MoreSee Less

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The extinction of Iceland’s walrus was “one of the earliest examples of commercially driven exploitation of maritime resources,” says an international team from Iceland, Denmark and the Netherlands. Scientists used ancient DNA analyses and C14-dating to demonstrate that a unique population of Icelandic walrus disappeared shortly after Norse settlement of the island some 1,100 years ago. Read more in our Dispatch 👉🏼 http://bit.ly/3390Srm ... See MoreSee Less

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The Conservation Frontlines Library provides a wide range of peer-reviewed papers, opinion pieces, media articles and more on subjects related to wildlife conservation and hunting. Check out this wealth of information in our library section 👉🏼 https://bit.ly/2SNKqbW
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IUCN has issued an urgent call to massively scale up species conservation action in response to the escalating biodiversity crisis. The Abu Dhabi Call for Global Species Conservation Action appeals to the world’s governments, international agencies and the private sector to halt species decline and prevent human-driven extinctions by 2030, and to improve the conservation status of threatened species with a view to bringing about widespread recovery by 2050. In the short term the Call is for an ambitious target on species conservation to be agreed by governments in 2020 – to be supported by a strong programme to implement the target. Read the press release here. #SpeciesActionNow. ... See MoreSee Less

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IUCN calls for halt to species decline by 2030

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Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 11 October 2019 (IUCN) – IUCN has issued an urgent call to massively scale up species conservation action in response...