Browsing Research Articles (Mammal Research Institute) by UP Author "Child, Matthew F."

Browsing Research Articles (Mammal Research Institute) by UP Author "Child, Matthew F."

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  • A framework to measure the wildness of managed large vertebrate populations 
    Child, Matthew F.; Selier, S.A. Jeanetta; Radloff, Frans G.T.; Taylor, William Andrew; Hoffmann, Michael; Nel, Lizanne; Power, R. John; Birss, Coral; Okes, Nicola C.; Peel, Michael J.; Mallon, David; Davies-Mostert, Harriet T. (Wiley, 2019-10)
    As landscapes continue to fall under human influence through habitat loss and fragmentation, fencing is increasingly being used to mitigate anthropogenic threats and enhance the commercial value of wildlife. Subsequent ...
  • Horizon scanning for South African biodiversity : a need for social engagement as well as science 
    Seymour, Colleen L.; Gillson, Lindsey; Child, Matthew F.; Tolley, Krystal A.; Curie, Jock C.; Da Silva, Jessica M.; Alexander, Graham J.; Anderson, Pippin; Downs, Colleen T.; Egoh, Benis N.; Ehlers Smith, David A.; Ehlers Smith, Yvette C.; Esler, Karen J.; O’Farrell, Patrick J.; Skowno, Andrew L.; Suleman, Essa; Veldtman, Ruan (Springer, 2020-06)
    A horizon scan was conducted to identify emerging and intensifying issues for biodiversity conservation in South Africa over the next 5–10 years. South African biodiversity experts submitted 63 issues of which ten were ...
  • How many bird and mammal extinctions has recent conservation action prevented? 
    Bolam, Friederike C.; Mair, Louise; Angelico, Marco; Brooks, Thomas M.; Burgman, Mark; Hermes, Claudia; Hoffmann, Michael; Martin, Rob W.; McGowan, Philip J.K.; Rodrigue, Ana S.L.; Rondinin, Carlo; Westrip, James R.S.; Wheatley, Hannah; Bedolla-Guzmán, Yuliana; Calzada, Javier; Child, Matthew F.; Cranswick, Peter A.; Dickman, Christopher R.; Fessl, Birgit; Fisher, Diana; Garnett, Stephen T.; Groombridge, Jim J.; Johnson, Christopher N.; Kennerley, Rosalind J.; King, Sarah R.B.; Lamoreux, John F.; Lees, Alexander C.; Lens, Luc; Mahood, Simon P.; Mallon, David P.; Meijaard, Erik; Mendez-Sanchez, Federico; Percequillo, Alexandre Reis; Regan, Tracey J.; Renjifo, Luis Miguel; Rivers, Malin C.; Roach, Nicolette S.; Roxburgh, Lizanne; Safford, Roger J.; Salaman, Paul; Squires, Tom; Vazquez-Dominguez, Ella; Visconti, Piero; Woinarski, John C.Z.; Young, Richard P.; Butchar, Stuart H.M. (Wiley Open Access, 2021-01)
    Aichi Target 12 of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) contains the aim to ‘prevent extinctions of known threatened species’. To measure the degree to which this was achieved, we used expert elicitation to ...
  • Wildness, infinity and freedom 
    Child, Matthew F. (Elsevier, 2021-08)
    Biodiversity risks losing relevance in an increasingly urbanised, unequal and disembodied world. Beyond basic material needs, we might gain the greatest well-being from eudaimonia – the freedom to flourish and live ...