Conservation Letters

Papers
(The median citation count of Conservation Letters is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
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Simulating Demography, Monitoring, and Management Decisions to Evaluate Adaptive Management Strategies for Endangered Species145
Correspondence: Challender et al. (2021) misinterpret the recommendations regarding an IUCN‐CITES interface in Frank and Wilcove (2019) and advocate poor policy121
Concrete Habitat Severely Decreases the Reproductive Output of Two Urban Birds114
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Land‐cover and land‐use change trajectory hopping facilitates estate‐crop expansion into protected forests in Indonesia82
Climate change and energy crisis drive an unprecedented EU environmental law regression77
Political Will Has Been Critical for Protecting Forests in the Brazilian Amazon and Indonesia76
European Habitats Directive has fostered monitoring but not prevented species declines68
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Collaborative fisheries research reveals reserve size and age determine efficacy across a network of marine protected areas48
Integrated systematic planning and adaptive stakeholder process support a 10‐fold increase in South Africa's Marine Protected Area estate44
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Rewilding and Indigenous‐Led Land Care Are Not Compatible Ideas41
Nature and equity39
First Evidence of Individual Sharks Involved in Multiple Predatory Bites on People33
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Conservation and human rights: The public commitments of international conservation organizations30
Phylogenetic relationships of invasive plants are useful criteria for weed risk assessments29
Bycatch in drift gillnet fisheries: A sink for Indian Ocean cetaceans28
Applying the Key Biodiversity Area Standard to Important Sites for Sharks28
Toward a new framework for restoring lost wildlife migrations27
Risky business: Protecting nature, protecting wealth?27
Conserving urban biodiversity: Current practice, barriers, and enablers26
Co‐benefits for terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystem services available from contrasting land protection policies in the contiguous United States26
Remote seamounts are key conservation priorities for pelagic wildlife25
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Mapping Multiple Wild Pig Species’ Population Dynamics in Southeast Asia During the African Swine Fever Outbreak (2018–2024)23
Kleptoparasitism in seabirds—A potential pathway for global avian influenza virus spread22
Does biodiversity‐focused protection of the seabed deliver carbon benefits? A U.K. case study22
What is the value of biotic seed dispersal in post‐fire forest regeneration?22
Stakeholder‐derived recommendations and actions to support deep‐reef conservation in the Western Indian Ocean20
How Do We Identify Anthropogenic Allee Effects in the Wildlife Trade?19
Leveraging shark‐fin consumer preferences to deliver sustainable fisheries18
What starts with laughter ends in tears: Invasive alien species regulations should not hinder scientific research18
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Contributions of small‐scale and longline fishing to sea turtle mortality in the Solomon Islands17
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Conflict between cultural development and wildlife conservation: A potential threat to Reeves's pheasant (Syrmaticus reevesii)17
The costs and benefits of publicising species discoveries17
Acoustic Indices Predict Recovery of Tropical Bird Communities for Taxonomic and Functional Composition16
Who cares about monarch butterflies? Comparing US State Wildlife Action Plans 2015–202515
A consumption‐based analysis of extinction risk in Australia15
Collective PES Contracts Can Motivate Institutional Creation to Conserve Forests: Experimental Evidence15
Testing an intervention codesigned with stakeholders for altering wildlife consumption: Health messaging matters15
Positive effects of fragmentation per se on the most iconic metapopulation15
Fish aggregating devices could enhance the effectiveness of blue water marine protected areas15
Personal traits predict conservationists’ optimism about outcomes for nature15
Insights from diplomacy for the prevention and resolution of conservation conflicts14
Passive Acoustic Gliders Are Effective Monitoring Tools for Dynamic Management Plans Aimed at Mitigating Whale‐Vessel Strikes14
Realizing “30 × 30” in India: The potential, the challenges, and the way forward14
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Urgent Policy Change Is Needed to Understand the Dimensions of Legal International Wildlife Trade to Enable Targeted Management14
An Assessment of the Fish Maw Trade in Singapore and Malaysia Reveals Threatened Species and Highlights the Need for a More Complete Assessment of the Conservation Status of the World's Fishes13
Colluding rhino poachers exploit space–time variation in opportunity and risk13
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A Survey of Mammal and Fish Genetic Diversity Across the Global Protected Area Network12
The fear factor—Snakes in Africa might be at an alarming extinction risk12
Addressing the Southeast Asian snaring crisis: Impact of 11 years of snare removal in a biodiversity hotspot12
Existing indicators do not adequately monitor progress toward meeting invasive alien species targets12
Village modernization and reduced abundance of farmland birds: Why compensation for lost nesting sites may not be enough11
Foraging mode affects extinction risk of snakes and lizards, but in different ways11
Quantifying the road‐effect zone for a critically endangered primate11
Support for the US Endangered Species Act Is High and Steady Over the Past Three Decades11
An inconvenient misconception: Climate change is not the principal driver of biodiversity loss11
Using weather radar to help minimize wind energy impacts on nocturnally migrating birds11
Fisheries outcomes of marine protected area networks: Levels of protection, connectivity, and time matter11
A criminal justice response to address the illegal trade of wildlife in Indonesia11
Advances and shortfalls in applying best practices to global tree‐growing efforts11
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Village modernization may contribute more to farmland bird declines than agricultural intensification11
What is soil biodiversity?10
Rewilding and Indigenous Community‐Led Land Care10
The biodiversity adaptation gap: Management actions for marine protected areas in the face of climate change10
Quantitative impacts of hydroelectric dams on the trans‐Amazonian migrations of goliath catfish10
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Village modernization and farmland birds: A reply to Rosin et al. (2021)10
Destructive fishing: An expert‐driven definition and exploration of this quasi‐concept9
Correction to: Using nonhuman culture in conservation requires careful and concerted action9
High‐resolution satellite imagery meets the challenge of monitoring remote marine protected areas in the Antarctic and beyond9
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Mismatch Between Global Importance of Peatlands and the Extent of Their Protection9
Benchmarking fish biodiversity of seaports with eDNA and nearby marine reserves9
Wild goose chase: Geese flee high and far, and with aftereffects from New Year's fireworks9
Tropical field stations yield high conservation return on investment9
Parachute conservation: Investigating trends in international research8
Hunting for Sustainability: Indigenous Stewardship in the Cofán Territory of Zábalo8
Too hot to hunt: Mechanistic predictions of thermal refuge from cat predation risk8
Local disconnects in global discourses—The unintended consequences of marine mammal protection on small‐scale fishers8
Do 50‐year‐old Ramsar criteria still do the best possible job? A plea for broadened scientific underpinning of the global protection of wetlands and migratory waterbirds8
Resolving Uncertainties in the Legality of Wildlife Trade to Support Better Outcomes for Wildlife and People8
Essential planetary health workers: Positioning rangers within global policy8
Taking Action to Avoid Extinction: Successful Regional‐Scale Lethal Control of Barred Owls Supports a Federal Strategy to Save Spotted Owls8
Invasion trends: An interpretable measure of change is needed to support policy targets8
An antiracist, anticolonial agenda for urban greening and conservation8
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Reimagining protected and conserved areas in Africa: Perspectives from the first Africa Protected Areas Congress8
An equity lens on behavioral science for conservation8
Data‐driven counterfactual evaluation of management outcomes to improve emergency conservation decisions7
Recognizing culturally significant species and Indigenous‐led management is key to meeting international biodiversity obligations7
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Avoid Cherry‐Picking Targets and Embrace Holistic Conservation to Pursue the Global Biodiversity Framework7
An Updated DNA Barcoding Tool for Aloe Vera and Related CITES‐Regulated Species7
Asia's Wolves and Synergies With Big Cats7
Horizon scanning for potential invasive non‐native species across the United Kingdom Overseas Territories7
Urgent actions needed by digital services platforms to help achieve conservation and public health goals7
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Historical maps improve the identification of forests with potentially high conservation value7
Evolution and Viability of Asian Horseshoe Crabs Appear Tightly Linked to Geo‐Climatic Dynamics in the Sunda Shelf7
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Explicit incentives increase citizen science recordings7
Conservation responsibility for bird species in tropical logged forests7
Unlocking the Value of Ranger‐Based Monitoring for Biodiversity Conservation and Protected Area Management7
Fisher–shark interactions: A loss of support for the Maldives shark sanctuary from reef fishers whose livelihoods are affected by shark depredation6
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Integrating an Eco‐Evolutionary Perspective for Coral Reef Resistance Into Global Conservation Planning and Policy6
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Novel operational index reveals rapid recovery of genetic connectivity in freshwater fish species after riverine restoration6
Scaling Out Community Conservation Initiatives: Experts Identify Economic and Social Benefits, Compatibility With Needs, and External Support as Key6
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Identifying climate‐smart tropical Key Biodiversity Areas for protection in response to widespread temperature novelty5
Ethical and mental health considerations for research into trade and trafficking of natural resources5
The perils of measuring biodiversity responses to habitat change using mixed metrics5
Corporate disclosures need a biodiversity outcome focus and regulatory backing to deliver global conservation goals5
China's Ecological Conservation Redline policy is a new opportunity to meet post‐2020 protected area targets5
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Could environmental and conservation sciences benefit from an anonymized journal?5
Creating an Authorizing Environment to Care for Country5
To conserve African tropical forests, invest in the protection of its most endangered group of monkeys, red colobus5
Hunting trophy import bans proposed by the UK may be ineffective and inequitable as conservation policies in multiple social‐ecological contexts5
Megaherbivores and Mega‐Infrastructure in East Africa5
Science‐based planning can support law enforcement actions to curb deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon5
Beyond inappropriate fire regimes: A synthesis of fire‐driven declines of threatened mammals in Australia5
Bats as a Model for Enhancing IUCN Red List Assessments: Real‐Time Data, Contributor Networks, and Specialized Training to Address Common Challenges5
Evaluating the mitigation effectiveness of forests managed for conservation versus commodity production using an Australian example4
A roadmap integrating research, policy, and actions to conserve Afro‐Palearctic migratory landbirds at a flyway scale4
The last stand: Demographic and population genomic analysis reveals terminal endangerment in tropical timber species Vatica guangxiensis4
Assessing the value of citizen scientist observations in tracking the abundance of marine fishes4
An operational methodology to identify Critical Ecosystem Areas to help nations achieve the Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework4
Flexible Climate Adaptation Can Substantially Reduce Conservation Costs and Mitigate Risk4
Performance of protected areas in conserving African elephants4
Overall protection of Asian elephants in China4
Fostering landscape immunity to protect human health: A science‐based rationale for shifting conservation policy paradigms4
Undescribed species have higher extinction risk than known species4
Protected areas still used to produce Brazil's cattle4
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Trees on farms improve dietary quality in rural Malawi3
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Rapid population response to a hunting ban in a previously overharvested, threatened landbird3
Nature benefit hypothesis: Direct experiences of nature predict self‐reported pro‐biodiversity behaviors3
Using ecosystem services to identify inequitable outcomes in migratory species conservation3
Rotational fishery closures could enhance coral recovery in systems with alternative states3
How can the European Common Agricultural Policy help halt biodiversity loss? Recommendations by over 300 experts3
The geography of international conservation interest in South American deforestation frontiers3
Threatened Mammals With Alien Populations: Distribution, Causes, and Conservation3
Lead‐based ammunition is a threat to the endangered New Zealand Kea (Nestor notabilis)3
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Helping to save pangolins from extinction3
Collaborative conservation for snow leopards: Lessons learned from successful community‐based interventions3
Over 80% of Africa's savannah conservation land is failing or deteriorating according to lions as an indicator species3
Now is not tomorrow3
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European Native Oyster Reef Ecosystems Are Universally Collapsed3
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