Climate change is an important factor affecting species dispersal and distribution through time and the accelerated global warming has currently concerned decision makers and conservationists.
Thus, collaborating with the film industry to frame wildlife trade issues will require thoughtful partnerships between film makers and conservationists to shape social norms for pet ownership that mitigate negative impacts upon wildlife trade, species conservation, animal welfare and public health.
"Preventing degraded forests from being converted to oil palm should be a priority of policy-makers and conservationists," says Edwards.
While ecologists generally are interested in large-scale patterns and the overall quality of SDMs, decision-makers and conservationists focus on the reliability of localized predictions relevant for specific projects.
Reducing shifting cultivation is a high priority for policy-makers and conservationists; however, spatially explicit evidence of shifting cultivation is lacking due to the difficulty of mapping it with common remote sensing methods.
Dereck Joubert, a film-maker and wildlife conservationist who helped airlift 10 rhinos from South Africa to Botswana this year, struck a note of caution.
Mauricio González-Gordon y Díez, Marquis of Bonanza (18 October 1923 – 27 September 2013) was a Spanish sherry maker and a conservationist.
Results also provide a baseline to compare the physical and chemical changes in surface water that occur at spatial and seasonal scale and to establish a scientific understanding to environmental managers, policy makers, conservationist and researchers working for future planning, restoration and formulation of management strategies.
This includes engagement of policy makers, conservationists and veterinarians with the commercial amphibian trade and hobbyists to develop and promote appropriate biosecurity protocols in a collaborative manner34,35,36.
The key lesson we learned from this exercise was that bridging the gap between science and conservation demands a very open, inter-disciplinary strategy, initiated and executed jointly by a diverse group of people that includes the Government (policy-makers and implementers), NGOs (conservationists and environmental advocates), scientists (researchers), conservationists and the local community.
We discuss our proposed definition and its implications, and define important related terms, thereby providing a common language for scientists, policy makers, conservationists, and other stakeholders with an interest in trophic cascades.
