I was a stranger who looked and sounded foreign, yet before even asking who I was or what I wanted, she welcomed me into her home with a smile and hurriedly dragged a chair so that I could sit. When I told her that I was researching jaguars and their interactions with people in the area, her smile faded away. As we began the conversation, I quickly realized that the jaguar,…

Sharks, rays and their cartilaginous relatives are threatened with extinction. The primary threat to this ancient and diverse species group is overfishing.

In the eyes of the media and general public, this fishing pressure is driven by ‘finning’. In the classic narrative, reckless, cold-hearted ‘shark hunters…

The saiga is a Star-Wars looking Critically Endangered antelope from Central Asia, whose horn is used in traditional Chinese medicines (TCM). Last month, a new rulling by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora strengthened trade regulations around saiga product exports (1).…

Making progress on Sustainable Development Goal 14 – life below water – is a complex and increasingly urgent challenge. A new handbook offers practical guidance on monitoring, evaluation and learning for SDG14, and emphasises the importance of using systems thinking.

Casting a net from the beach in Sri Lanka; people around the world depend on…

Understanding costs and designing creative economic instruments for shark conservation in Indonesia

“We roll on three, because ‘go’ sounds like ‘no’... 1, 2, 3...”

We all roll backwards off the boat with a splash…

As modern-day conservation science is said to have been born from quantitative biology, it is no surprise that it has a strong background in the use of predictive models. However, conservation today also has a prediction problem. Put simply, prediction isn’t used enough, be that in identifying future problems before they arise, working out which of a variety of intervention options…