Information on the response of herpetofauna to different land uses is limited though important for land-use planning to support conservation in human-modified landscapes. Though transformation is dogmatically associated ...

Licht and colleagues (BioScience 60: 147–153) identify South Africa’s pioneering efforts to reintroduce top predators to small, fenced protected areas as a conservation model America might be wise to follow. However, South ...

Savannas once constituted the range of many species that human encroachment has now reduced to a fraction of their former distribution. Many survive only in protected areas. Poaching reduces the savanna elephant, even where ...