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Oryx, the conservationists' journal

Oryx — The International Journal of Conservation, published quarterly by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Fauna & Flora International, is a leading scientific journal of biodiversity conservation, conservation policy and sustainable use, with a particular interest in material that has the potential to improve conservation management and practice.

The website, oryxthejournal.org, plays a vital role in the journal’s capacity-building work. Amongst the site’s many attributes is a compendium of sources of free software for researchers and details of how to access Oryx at reduced rates or for free in developing countries. The website also includes extracts from Oryx issues 10, 25 and 50 years ago, and a gallery of research photographs that provide a fascinating insight into the places, species and people described in the journal.

The January issue of Oryx, available freely on the Cambridge Journals website comprises 18 articles on conservation management and on a wide range of species and habitats.

The first three articles all focus on aspects of invasive species and conservation, including eradication programmes for cats on Ascension Island and rats on Ancapa Island, and documentation of a feral population of ferrets on La Palma, the first to have become established on the Canary Islands.

The next article in the January issue, and that illustrated on this issue’s cover, examines the use of marked-based initiatives in wild fish conservation. Much effort has been put into educating consumers with a view to protecting fish stocks by changing patterns of consumption.

This paper finds that such programmes are affected by consumer confusion, lack of traceability and a lack of demonstrably improved conservation status for the fish that are meant to be protected. In addition to suggesting ways in which market-based initiatives may have a role to play in fisheries conservation, Jennifer Jacquet and her co-authors also suggest a number of other initiatives that could be effective for conservation of the world’s fish.

A number of other articles in this issue deal with habitat degradation, with Watson et al. providing an assessment of anthropogenic degradation of six major habitats in the Galapagos Islands, while Cisneros-Heredia et al. analyse the status of an endemic glassfrog in Ecuador and find it is at risk of extinction from the destruction of its seasonal evergreen forest habitat.

Elsewhere, the close association between species and their habitats is explored, with studies including an estimate of the density of jaguar in Brazil’s caatinga, surveys of Critically Endangered western lowland gorillas in Raphia swamp forest in the Republic of Congo, and evidence indicating a recovery of the Endangered giant otter in north-eastern Peru.      

If you join Fauna & Flora International as a Subscribing Member, Member, Life Member or Concessionary Member you will receive a complimentary copy of Oryx every quarter. Fauna & Flora International also offers institutional subscriptions.

In addition to scientific papers and thought-provoking and challenging articles, Oryx includes published news of general conservation interest from around the world and news concerning major recent developments in conservation, provides details of upcoming meetings and conferences of interest to conservationists, and contains reviews of the latest books published for and by conservationists.

In addition to the papers mentioned above, the 18 scientific articles contained in the current issue of Oryx also include:

• Reducing human–elephant conflict: do chillies help deter elephants from entering crop fields? Simon Hedges and Donny Gunaryadi
• Hunting and the conservation of a social ungulate: the white-lipped peccary Tayassu pecari in Calakmul, Mexico, Rafael Reyna-Hurtado, Eduardo Naranjo, Colin A. Chapman and George W. Tanner
• Priority Forests for Conservation in Fiji: landscapes, hotspots and ecological processes, David Olson, Linda Farley, Alex Patrick, Dick Watling, Marika Tuiwawa, Vilikesa Masibalavu et al.

If you are interested in contributing to the journal please visit the Oryx website where you will find information and advice on how to submit items to Oryx, as well as a frequently asked questions page, and instructions on how to access free sample issues of the journal.

An invaluable research tool - the Oryx CD/DVD

The Oryx CD-ROM, which is also available as a DVD, comprises a fully searchable database of 100 years of Oryx issues. An invaluable research tool, the database includes PDF files and front cover photographs of all Oryx issues from 1903 - 2002.

To order your copy of the Oryx archive, please contact Elizabeth Allen at oryx@fauna-flora.org or call +44 (0)1223 571000.