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What Works in Conservation has been created to provide practitioners with answers to these and many other questions about practical conservation. This book provides an assessment of the effectiveness of 1389 conservation interventions based on summarized scientific evidence. The 2019 edition contains new material on bat conservation. Other chapters cover practical global conservation of primates, peatlands, shrublands and heathlands, management of captive animals as well as an extended chapter on control of freshwater invasive species, the global conservation of amphibians, bats, birds and forests, conservation of European farmland biodiversity and some aspects of enhancing natural pest control, enhancing soil fertility and control of freshwater invasive species. It contains key results from the summarized evidence for each conservation intervention and an assessment of the effectiveness of each by international expert panels. The accompanying website www.conservationevidence.com describes each of the studies individually, and provides full references. This is the fourth edition of What Works in Conservation, which is revised on an annual basis.

bats --- environment --- Conservation --- practical intervention --- birds --- soil fertility --- forests --- farmland --- invasive species --- amphibians

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Bats have a poor image for the public at large because they are often feared. This is usually due to ignorance. In this book, we have eight chapters on bats covering countries such as Algeria, Bulgaria, France, Pakistan, Poland, the UK and the USA and subjects ranging from acoustic monitoring of bat species for distribution and conservation purposes to various bat-borne and bat-carried diseases. These diseases cannot be taken lightly but should not be a reason for panic or to fear or even kill bats. Bats will not cause any harm if we let them live in peace. With the added knowledge through this book, we should know how best to cope with bats, which need all our support in the changing environments and climates.

Zoology. --- Bats. --- Cheiroptera --- Chiroptera --- Chiropterans --- Mammals --- Biology --- Natural history --- Animals --- Life Sciences --- Animal Biology --- Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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"This book focuses on central themes related to the conservation of bats. It details their response to land-use change and management practices, intensified urbanization and roost disturbance and loss. Increasing interactions between humans and bats as a result of hunting, disease relationships, occupation of human dwellings, and conflict over fruit crops are explored in depth. Finally, contributors highlight the roles that taxonomy, conservation networks and conservation psychology have to play in conserving this imperilled but vital taxon. With over 1300 species, bats are the second largest order of mammals, yet as the Anthropocene dawns, bat populations around the world are in decline. Greater understanding of the anthropogenic drivers of this decline and exploration of possible mitigation measures are urgently needed if we are to retain global bat diversity in the coming decades. This book brings together teams of international experts to provide a global review of current understanding and recommend directions for future research and mitigation"--Publisher's description.

Ecology --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Life sciences. --- Climate change. --- Animal ecology. --- Conservation biology. --- Ecology. --- Vertebrates. --- Life Sciences. --- Conservation Biology/Ecology. --- Animal Ecology. --- Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts. --- Vertebrata --- Chordata --- Balance of nature --- Biology --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Environmental sciences --- Population biology --- Nature conservation --- Animals --- Zoology --- Changes, Climatic --- Climate change --- Climate changes --- Climate variations --- Climatic change --- Climatic changes --- Climatic fluctuations --- Climatic variations --- Global climate changes --- Global climatic changes --- Climatology --- Climate change mitigation --- Teleconnections (Climatology) --- Biosciences --- Sciences, Life --- Science --- Environmental aspects --- Climatic changes. --- Bats. --- Bats --- Conservation. --- Cheiroptera --- Chiroptera --- Chiropterans --- Mammals --- Changes in climate --- Climate change science --- Ecology . --- Global environmental change --- Bats - Conservation. --- Bats - Effect of human beings on. --- Bats - Habitat - Conservation. --- Conservation Biology/Ecology --- Vertebrates --- Animal Ecology --- Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts --- Conservation biology --- Animal ecology

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Les conflits sont fertiles en discours d’accusation ou de justification. Ils provoquent des prises de position qui prétendent exprimer les sentiments d’une large opinion, ou la prendre à témoin. Et nombreux sont les acteurs qui veulent profiter des temps de troubles pour promouvoir un projet politique. D’ailleurs, n’est-ce pas par leur existence même que les conflits génèrent une politisation ? Cette approche croisée pose de multiples problèmes, à commencer par l’émergence de l’opinion publique : se produit-elle, comme le pensait Jürgen Habermas, dans la seconde moitié du XVIIIe siècle, ou bien plus tôt ? De même, la notion de politisation doit être maniée avec précaution, pour éviter toute forme d’évolutionnisme un peu naïf. Aborder ces questions sur le temps long, comme le propose cet ouvrage, permet ainsi d’ouvrir de nouvelles pistes et de se prémunir tout autant des fausses continuités que des ruptures illusoires. C’est donc un chantier conceptuel passionnant que les contributeurs de cet ouvrage ont ouvert. Leur pari : faire bouger les lignes en analysant la politisation et l’opinion par le biais de l’histoire des conflits. Ce livre voudrait ainsi sortir de certaines impasses nuisibles à la recherche historique et nourrir un dialogue constructif avec l’ensemble des sciences sociales.

History --- opinion publique --- liberté d'expression --- politisation --- conflit --- Opinion publique --- Conflit --- Politisation --- XVe-XXe s., 1401-2000 --- World history --- anno 1500-1799 --- anno 1800-1899 --- anno 1900-1909 --- Public opinion --- Political sociology --- Sociologie politique --- History. --- Histoire --- Communication in politics --- Social conflict --- Political participation --- Communication en politique --- Participation politique --- Conflit (sociologie) --- Débats et controverses --- Europe --- Débats et controverses

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Throughout history, wildlife has been an important source of infectious diseases transmissible to humans. Today, zoonoses with a wildlife reservoir constitute a major public health problem, affecting all continents. The importance of such zoonoses is increasingly recognized, and the need for more attention in this area is being addressed. The total number of zoonoses is unknown, some 1,415 known human pathogens have been catalogued, and 62% are of zoonotic origin [1]. With time, more and more human pathogens are found to be of animal origin. Moreover, most emerging infectious diseases in humans are zoonoses. Wild animals seem to be involved in the epidemiology of most zoonoses and serve as major reservoirs for transmission of zoonotic agents to domestic animals and humans [2]. The concept of the ‘One Health’ approach involving collaboration between veterinary and medical scientists, policy makers, and public health officials, is necessary to foster joint cooperation and control of emerging zoonotic diseases [3]. Zoonotic diseases caused by a wide range of arthropods, bacteria, helminths, protozoans, and viruses can cause serious and even life-threatening clinical conditions in animals, with a number of them also affecting the human population due to their zoonotic potential. The aim of the current Special Issue is to cover recent and novel research trends in zoonotic diseases in wildlife, including the relevant topics related to wildlife, zoonosis, public health, emerging diseases, infectious diseases and parasitic diseases.

west nile virus --- arbovirus --- zoonotic --- macaque --- bats --- c-ELISA --- RT-PCR --- Anaplasma phagocytophilum --- zoonosis --- tick --- wild ungulates --- phylogenesis --- molecular epidemiology --- Coxiella burnetii --- Q fever --- serology --- epidemiology --- wildlife --- European bison --- micromammals --- Cryptosporidium --- Giardia --- Blastocystis --- Enterocytozoon bieneusi --- Balantioides coli --- Troglodytella --- non-human primates --- rats --- zoological garden --- one health --- Helicobacter spp. --- PCR --- Sus scrofa --- Meles meles --- badger --- tuberculosis --- Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex --- P22 ELISA --- isolation --- cattle --- Atlantic Spain --- filter card --- faeces --- transportation --- storage --- preservation --- Giardia duodenalis --- Cryptosporidium hominis --- seroprevalence --- ruminants --- humans --- dust --- aerosols --- Salmonella --- turtles --- wildlife rescue centres --- camera-traps --- interactions --- wildlife-livestock interface --- non-tuberculous mycobacteria --- Leptospira interrogans --- microscopic agglutination test --- Slovenia --- n/a