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02Mar
UN World Wildlife Day: working with small-holder farmers in Indonesia, for sustainable results
Today, 3 March 2021 marks UN World Wildlife Day which aims to celebrate and raise awareness of the world’s wild animals and plants. Highlighting a project that has helped coffee farmers in Indonesia move to wildlife friendly farming, Professor Anna Nekaris and Dr Marco Campera share the impact of their work.
02Mar
Legal wildlife trade needs monitoring to reduce risk of a new pandemic
With three out of four newly emerging infectious human diseases originating in animals*, there is an urgent need to monitor the legal trade in wildlife, according to new research by Vincent Nijman, Professor in Anthropology at Oxford Brookes University.
25Feb
Chimpanzees take calculated risks to survive alongside humans
Researchers have used a ‘landscape of fear’ framework to study how endangered western chimpanzees in West Africa perceive predator risks and adapt their behaviours to forage for the best available food.
16Feb
Selfies, gorillas and the risks of disease transmission
Tourists could be spreading the virus causing COVID-19 to wild mountain gorillas by taking selfies with the animals without following precautions.
Territorial, expert navigators: the black howler monkeys of Mexico
Fri, 29 Jan 2021 09:38:53 GMT
Researchers have uncovered the advanced skills of black howler monkeys, who are able to recall the location of their favourite fruit trees and anticipate ripening.
The great outdoors: £1 million grant to study countryside rights of way
Tue, 26 Jan 2021 11:13:57 GMT
COVID-19 has highlighted the importance of accessing nature to people’s health and wellbeing, with 42% of adults saying that ‘visiting green and natural spaces has been even more important to their wellbeing since coronavirus’*. Now a £1 million project will be researching the mapping, development, use and experience of twentieth and twenty-first century rights of way across England and Wales.
Laws around HIV transmissions need urgent update
Mon, 11 Jan 2021 10:42:53 GMT
The criminal law in relation to HIV transmission has not kept up with the science, according to a team of researchers based at Oxford Brookes, Northumbria and Kingston universities.
Trade in wild animals is thriving online, despite risk of animal to human disease transmission
Fri, 18 Dec 2020 12:23:00 GMT
Despite COVID-19 restrictions and the risk of animal to human disease transmission, illegal wildlife trade on social media networks has continued, with wild animals sometimes sold as ‘lockdown pets’.

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Humanities and Social Sciences News

UN World Wildlife Day: working with small-holder farmers in Indonesia, for sustainable results

Legal wildlife trade needs monitoring to reduce risk of a new pandemic

Chimpanzees take calculated risks to survive alongside humans

Selfies, gorillas and the risks of disease transmission

Territorial, expert navigators: the black howler monkeys of Mexico

The great outdoors: £1 million grant to study countryside rights of way

Laws around HIV transmissions need urgent update

Trade in wild animals is thriving online, despite risk of animal to human disease transmission

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