Cecil: A moment or a movement? Analysis of media coverage of the death of a lion, Panthera leo by Macdonald, D, Jacobsen, K, Burnham, D, Johnson, P, Loveridge, A, Johnson, P

“…We analyse the global media response to the trophy hunting of the lion, nicknamed “Cecil”, a study animal in a long-term project run by Oxford University’s Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU). We collaborated with a media-monitoring company to investigate the development of the media coverage spatially and temporally. …”

Structural Connectivity of Asia’s Protected Areas Network: Identifying the Potential of Transboundary Conservation and Cost-Effective Zones by Melissa Penagos Gaviria, Żaneta Kaszta, Mohammad S. Farhadinia

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Tradeoffs between resources and risks shape the responses of a large carnivore to human disturbance by Kirby L. Mills, Jerrold L. Belant, Maya Beukes, Egil Dröge, Kristoffer T. Everatt, Robert Fyumagwa, David S. Green, Matt W. Hayward, Kay E. Holekamp, F. G. T. Radloff, Göran Spong, Justin P. Suraci, Leanne K. Van der Weyde, Christopher C. Wilmers, Neil H. Carter, Nathan J. Sanders

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Examining attention given to threats to elephant conservation on social media by Niall L. Hammond, Amy Dickman, Duan Biggs

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Averting wildlife-borne infectious disease epidemics requires a focus on socio-ecological drivers and a redesign of the global food system by Giulia I. Wegner, Kris A. Murray, Marco Springmann, Adrian Muller, Susanne H. Sokolow, Karen Saylors, David M. Morens

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Cecil: A Moment or a Movement? Analysis of Media Coverage of the Death of a Lion, Panthera leo by David W. Macdonald, Kim S. Jacobsen, Dawn Burnham, Paul J. Johnson, Andrew J. Loveridge

“…We analyse the global media response to the trophy hunting of the lion, nicknamed “Cecil”, a study animal in a long-term project run by Oxford University’s Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU). We collaborated with a media-monitoring company to investigate the development of the media coverage spatially and temporally. …”
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Attention matters: A preliminary assessment of ranchers’ attitudes towards big cats in Costa Rica by Margarita Gil-Fernández, Juan Luis Peña-Mondragón, Diego A. Gómez-Hoyos, Sergio Escobar-Lasso, Silvio Marchini, Eduardo Carrillo

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The Characterization and Study of Antibacterial, Free Radical Scavenging, and Anticancer Potential of <i>Livistona chinensis</i>-Mediated Silver Nanoparticles by Aroona Saleem, Sikander Ali, Muhammad Nauman Aftab, Ashwag Shami, Fatimah A. Al-Saeed, Bilal Mustafa, Bilal Ahamad Paray

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Impact of severe climate variability on lion home range and movement patterns in the Amboseli ecosystem, Kenya by J.H. Tuqa, P. Funston, C. Musyoki, G.O. Ojwang, N.N. Gichuki, H. Bauer, W. Tamis, S. Dolrenry, M. Van‘t Zelfde, G.R. de Snoo, H.H. de Iongh

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Inferring patterns of wildlife trade through monitoring social media: Shifting dynamics of trade in wild-sourced African Grey parrots following major regulatory changes by Alisa Davies, Neil D’Cruze, Cristiana Senni, Rowan O. Martin

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Anthropogenic factors do not affect male or female jaguar habitat use in an Amazonian Sustainable Reserve by Anelise Montanarin, Emiliano Esterci Ramalho, Daniel Gomes da Rocha, Diogo Maia Gräbin, Guilherme Costa Alvarenga, Pedro Aurélio Costa Lima Pequeno, Fabricio Beggiato Baccaro, William Ernest Magnusson

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