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𓃲 Oryx—The International Journal of Conservation publishes leading research on biodiversity, conservation practice and the socio-economic dimensions of conservation.

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🤔 Who should shape conservation conversations? Traditionally, conservation journals have focused on publishing rigorous ...
23/10/2026

🤔 Who should shape conservation conversations?

Traditionally, conservation journals have focused on publishing rigorous science, and rightly so. But nature conservation affects us all.

💭 In our recent Editorial, Oryx Editors Simon Pooley (International Board of Editors) Viola Ross-Smith (Editor) and Julia Hochbach (Managing Editor) explore whether conservation journals are making space for everyone who has something valuable to contribute to the subject.

That's why we're calling for ideas to help create a more inclusive and creative conservation journal by opening the pages of Oryx to a broader range of voices.

We're interested in exploring new forms of contribution and collaboration while maintaining the high editorial standards that underpin Oryx🎶🖼️

📨 Send your thoughts and ideas for new contributions and collaborations to: [email protected]

Read our Editorial, Open Access, here:
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605326104128

You can read our blog 'Beyond the usual voices' here:
https://www.oryxthejournal.org/blog/beyond-the-usual-voices-who-should-shape-conservation-conversations/

We're also grateful to Stephen Redpath for generously sharing his painting 'A Casual Destruction', a powerful reflection on habitat loss that captures the emotions we often experience when witnessing the loss of nature.

New issue 📢 Plant conservation🪴The latest issue of Oryx highlights the challenges and opportunities of conserving plant ...
23/10/2026

New issue 📢

Plant conservation🪴

The latest issue of Oryx highlights the challenges and opportunities of conserving plant diversity in a rapidly changing world. The issue features studies documenting extraordinary plant richness in Tanzania’s Ngezi–Vumawimbi Forest Reserve, the first extinction risk assessment of an Antarctic bryophyte, and urgent conservation concerns for the Critically Endangered Uzbek endemic Astragalus centralis.

Other contributions report the rediscovery of plant species thought to be lost for decades or even centuries, including Ravenea latisecta in Madagascar and Indianthus virgatus in Sri Lanka, alongside efforts to restore the threatened Plantago fengdouensis in China.

Beyond plant conservation, the issue presents research on species reintroductions, human–wildlife coexistence, conservation planning, and the status of threatened mammals, birds and other taxa across Africa, Asia and Latin America.

You can access our new issue, open access, here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/oryx/issue/E252C64C44A42C3F26DBC8EC2BC04C80

Or read more about it in our blog here: https://www.oryxthejournal.org/blog/latest-issue-plant-conservation/

We're delighted that Dr Brendan Fisher (University of Vermont), a member of our International Board of Editors, has auth...
30/09/2026

We're delighted that Dr Brendan Fisher (University of Vermont), a member of our International Board of Editors, has authored a feature for the University of Vermont website celebrating the launch of our first issue of Becoming a Conservationist.

Brendan also co-authored the editorial for this issue, alongside Martin Fisher, reflecting on the importance of supporting early-career conservationists and guiding first-time authors through manuscript preparation, peer review and publication.

Brendan's article:
https://www.uvm.edu/gund/news/forty-first-papers-one-big-idea

Since, we have published a second issue on 'Becoming a Conservationist'!

Read about it here:
https://www.oryxthejournal.org/blog/latest-issue-becoming-a-conservationist-part-2/

The latest issue of Oryx brings together research from a new cohort of early-career conservationists, showcasing studies...
24/09/2026

The latest issue of Oryx brings together research from a new cohort of early-career conservationists, showcasing studies that address some of the most pressing challenges facing biodiversity today. Featured articles explore topics ranging from human–wildlife coexistence and the impacts of tourism and infrastructure on wildlife, to climate change, illegal wildlife trade and species recovery. Highlights include research on human attitudes towards Baird's tapirs in Costa Rica, the online trade in raptors in Pakistan, climate change risks for Brazilian conifers, and conservation prospects for species such as leopards, dholes, khulan, long-tailed gorals and the western long-beaked echidna.

This issue's contributions reflect this spirit of adaptation and innovation, offering new insights into how conservation can support both wildlife and people in a rapidly changing world.

Access the new issue here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/oryx/issue/77A561AB09D20CAADF81CF8310AF5B10

Read the issue blog here: https://www.oryxthejournal.org/blog/latest-issue-becoming-a-conservationist-part-2/

📢 Call for papers! Wild meat plays a vital, underappreciated role in the lives of millions across Asia and the Pacific, ...
25/08/2026

📢 Call for papers!

Wild meat plays a vital, underappreciated role in the lives of millions across Asia and the Pacific, supporting food security, nutrition, livelihoods and deep cultural values. However, unsustainable harvest threatens regional biodiversity and wildlife trade creates potential pathways for zoonotic disease transmission. Compared to sub-Saharan Africa and Amazonia, wild meat use in Asia and the Pacific remains severely understudied.

A proposed special section of articles to be published in Oryx responds directly to this gap, bringing together rigorous research from across the Asian continent and the Pacific to build a clearer, more comprehensive picture of wild meat use in the region. We invite contributions that analyse consumption patterns, explore socioeconomic and cultural drivers, assess ecological and health impacts and identify pathways towards sustainable and equitable wildlife management.

Do you have an idea for a paper that you think might fit this special section? We would be very happy to hear from you. Please send a proposed title and short abstract, or a full draft if you already have one, by 18 September 2026 by e-mail to [email protected] and [email protected].


Photos:
Water buffalo; Manon Mispiratceguy
Callosciurus finlaysonii; Manon Mispiratceguy

🗞️ The latest issue of Oryx celebrates early-career conservationists, featuring 12 articles led by first-time authors wh...
31/07/2026

🗞️ The latest issue of Oryx celebrates early-career conservationists, featuring 12 articles led by first-time authors whose research spans human–wildlife conflict, species recovery, conservation psychology and protected area management.

🎓️ Highlights include the cover article by Rinaldi García et al. on a livestock guarding dog and pumas in Argentina, as well as insights into the role of emotion in conservation decision-making, an assessment of conservation challenges in the conflict-affected W–Arly–Pendjari Complex of West Africa, and evidence that live animal programmes may influence children's attitudes towards conservation and exotic pet ownership. The issue also presents research on species conservation, from dholes, tigers and tapirs to brazilwood, orchids and Townsend’s shearwater.


See the issue blog here: https://www.oryxthejournal.org/blog/latest-issue-becoming-a-conservationist/

Read the issue, Open Access, here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/oryx/issue/71593295CA5A6E398FA8157632182625

How has ancient Balinese philosophy helped Bali's last surviving endemic species to thrive?Tri Hita Karana, 'three cause...
03/07/2026

How has ancient Balinese philosophy helped Bali's last surviving endemic species to thrive?

Tri Hita Karana, 'three causes of happiness', teaches that balance is achieved through harmony with the divine, people and nature. And it is with this approach that the people of Babahan Village in the Besikalung Wildlife Sanctuary live alongside their resident Bali starlings.

Read the story of the Bali starling and the people of Babahan Village in our new Oryx blog here:

https://www.oryxthejournal.org/blog/bali-starlings-and-the-three-causes-of-happiness-tri-hita-karana/

🥳 Happy 100th birthday to Sir David Attenborough! 🎂 Thank you for all your support over the years,From the team at Oryx ...
08/05/2026

🥳 Happy 100th birthday to Sir David Attenborough! 🎂

Thank you for all your support over the years,
From the team at Oryx 𓃲


🌿 David was introduced to our journal in 1959 whilst filming his series Zoo Quest and has been a supportive advocate for Oryx, and Fauna & Flora, ever since 💚

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