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Biodiversity MAG #8 — Focus on Sri Lanka
— Interview with Dr Prithiviraj Fernando, Chairman and Scientist at Sri Lanka’s Centre for Conservation and Research, Research Associate at Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, and senior member of the Asian Elephant Specialist Group at the IUCN
— Ravi Corea, founder Sri Lanka Wildlife Conservation Society (SLWCS), Sanali Perea, and Ravina Gallage, ‘The EleFriendly Bus Service‘.
— Interview with Dr Deba Dutta, conservation biologist, Senior Manager Rhino Conservation and Research Division Aaranyak, Assam, India
— Interview with Fahad Malik, president founder Mission Awareness Foundation (MAF), Pakistan
— Interview with Daniel Yawson, Senior Lab. Technician Department of Biological Science School of Sciences, University of Energy and Natural Resources, Sunyani-Ghana
— Interview with Andy Martin, Executive Director and instructor at Conservation Rangers Operation Worldwide (CROW)
— News from the team: JACK Chimps sanctuary, International Otter Survival Fund (IOSF) and China Biodiversity Conservation & Green Development (CBCGDF)
Columns and Open-eds
— Philip Lymbery, CEO, Compassion in World Farming, ‘WHY SAVING CRITICALLY ENDANGERED SUMATRAN ELEPHANTS MEANS HAVING A BEEF WITH INDUSTRIAL FARMING‘
— Azzedine T. Downes, President & CEO, International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), ‘HARMONY IN THE WILD
Two decades of Asian Elephant conservation and Community Development‘
— Sarah Kite, Co-Founder Action For Primates, ‘TRADE IN NON-HUMAN PRIMATES IN SOUTH-AMERICAN COUNTRIES‘
— Dr Richard Munang, UNEP Head of Global Environment Monitoring Systems, ‘How to replace firewood/charcoal while guaranteeing clean energy and a source of income?‘
Biodiversity MAG #7 — Focus on Latin America
— Dorixa Monsalve Dam, Biologist, expert in the conservation of the Andean Bear, ‘Venezuelan Biodiversity‘
— Lisseth Boon, Investigative reporter, Armando Info, ‘This business is charged in species‘
— Interview with Rosamira Guillen, Executive Director Fundación Proyecto Tití.
— Interview with Diana Liz Duque, Executive Director Proyecto Mono Araña
— Interview with Carlos Alvarado Sanchez, Fundatropicos.
— Interview with Denis Alexander Torres, Fundación andigenA
— Interview with Bibiana Sucre, Executive Director Provita
— Interview with Dr Pilar Alexander Blanco Marquez, Director Fundación Esfera
— Interview with Drs Gerardo Ceballos and José Gonzalez-Maya, University of Mexico, Alianza Nacional Conservacíon Jaguar and ProCat
— Interview with Karina Estraño, Todos por el Futuro Venezuela
— Interview with Lisa Hywood, Founder & CEO Tikki Hywood Foundation
— Interview with Dr Andrew Gonzalez, professor of biology at McGill university, Founding Director of the Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science and co-chair of GEO-BON
Columns and Open-eds
— Neha Panchamiya, President & Founder, RESQ Charitable Trust, Pune, India, ‘On the Brink: The Fight to Save Maharashtra’s White-rumped Vultures‘
— Azzedine T. Downes, President & CEO, International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), ‘Beyond Carbon: How Wildlife Can Help Mitigate Climate Change‘
— Philip Lymbery, Global CEO Compassion in World Farming (CIWF), ‘DEFORESTATION BUT NOT AS WE KNOW IT: WHY WE SHOULDN’T BLAME CATTLE GRAZING FOR DESTROYING THE AMAZON‘
— Heidi Riddle, Vice-chair IUCN Asian Elephant specialist group, Dr Panda Paramita Prajna, Wildlife biologist and conservationist, Program Manager & Member IUCN SSC AsESG, ‘Enhancing the Conservation of Asian Elephants across Range Countries‘
— Sonia Zapata, lawyer, human rights activist, Lawyer, Human Rights Activist (Foro Penal), Founder Embajadores del Orinoco, ‘Biodiversity, human rights and indigenous rights‘
Biodiversity MAG #6 — Habitat Loss & Disease Outbreaks
— Neha Panchamiya, Founder & President of RESQ, Pune, India, ‘The Blueprint of Ethics in Wildlife Rescue
and Rehabilitation‘
— Azzedine T. Downes, President & CEO, International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), ‘Social empowerment: the beginning to ending human-wildlife conflict.’
— Zhou Jinfeng, ‘The One Health Approach to Reduce Habitat Loss and Disease Outbreaks‘
— Serge Morand, ‘Agriculture, biodiversity and infectious diseases‘
— Philip Lymbery, ‘How regeneration and rewilding can tackle disease and save our children’s future‘
— Alice C. Hugues, ‘Species health and habitat health as key to preventing future pandemics‘
— Dr Tony Goldberg, ‘Wildlife Disease Outbreaks in the Age of Viral Metagenomics‘
— Dr James S. Desmond, ‘Using Conservation as a Public Health
Tool in Liberia‘
— Dr Raina Plowright, ‘Pathogen spillover driven by rapid changes in bat ecology‘
— Dr Thomas Gillespie, ‘Preventing Pandemics & Saving Species Through Tropical Forest Conservation‘
— Echo Liu, ‘Children’s Education of Biodiversity Loss‘
— Interview with Dr Patricia Wright, primatologist, anthropologist, Herrnstein Professor of Conservation Biology and Distinguished Service Professor at Stony Brook University, founder and executive director Centre ValBio.
— Interview with Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, Ugandan wildlife veterinarian, founder and CEO of Conservation Through Public Health (CTPH) and Gorilla Conservation Coffee.
— Interview with Dr Richard Webby, Dr Richard Webby, Member, St. Jude Faculty, Director, World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Studies on the Ecology of Influenza in Animals and Birds
Biodiversity MAG #5 — Captive Wildlife for Entertainment
— Will Travers OBE, President Born Free Foundation, ‘The Individual‘
— Muriel Arnal, Founding President One Voice, ‘Rethinking Captivity‘
— Dr Sara Platto, ‘Post-traumatic Stress Disorders in Captive Elephants‘
— Rob Laidlaw, Biologist, Founder Zoocheck, ‘Far from the Deep Blue Sea‘
— Victoria Shroff, Animal Lawyer-Educator, ‘Kiska’s Death is Animal Law Fail‘
— David B. Casselman, Lawyer, Founder Ecoflix, Founder Cambodia Wildlife Sanctuary, ‘Free Billy‘.
— Steve Koyle, ‘Working within different cultures to Improve Elephant Welfare‘
— Nikita Dhawan, Youth Ambassador for Born Free Foundation and EarthDay ORG, member of IUCN’s Commission on Education and Communication (CEC), ‘Elephants in Captivity: The case of Shankar in the Delhi Zoo‘
— Interview with Dr Biruté Mary Galdikas, Scientist, Conservationist, Educator, Professor Extraordinaire at the Universitas Nasional in Jakarta and Full Professor at
Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada, Founder & President Orangutan Foundation International (OFI)
— Interview with David Barritt, Executive Director Natwork For Animals and Animal Survival International
— Interview with Aaron Gekoski, photojournalist & filmaker
— Interview with Grace Yoxon, Director at the International Otter Survival Fund (IOSF)? Interview with Panchali Panapitiya, Founder & President Rallye For Animal Rights & Environment (RARE)
— Interview with David Neale, Animal Welfare Director at Animals Asia
— Interview with Dr Tuan Bendixsen, Head of Animals Asia operation in Vietnam
— Jenny Desmond, Founder Liberia Chimps Rescue & Protection (LCRP), ‘Chimpanzees in Zoos’
— Roxane Chantereau, co-founder Jack Chimps Sanctuary (JACK), ‘Rasco, A Ray of Sunshine’
— Pei F. Su, sociologist, Founder & CEO of ActAsia, ‘‘China’s 2nd draft revision of wildlife protection law fails animals, the environment and humans’
