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Aims and scope

Drawing upon the findings from island biogeography studies, Norman Myers estimates that we are losing between 50-200 species per day, a rate 120,000 times greater than the background rate during prehistoric times. Worse still, the rate is accelerating rapidly. By the year 2000, we may have lost over one million species, counting back from three centuries ago when this trend began. By the middle of the next century, as many as one half of all species may face extinction. Moreover, our rapid destruction of critical ecosystems, such as tropical coral reefs, wetlands, estuaries, and rainforests may seriously impair species' regeneration, a process that has taken several million years after mass extinctions in the past. Additionally, the loss of species from all major categories contrasts sharply with what happened in the late Cretaceous period when most species of placental mammals, birds, amphibians, non-dinosaurian reptiles and terrestrial plants survived. This may severely deplete evolution's speciation capacity for a far longer time than after past periods of mass extinctions. As Myers concludes, within the space of our lifetime, just a few human generations, we shall -- in the absence of greatly expanded conservation efforts -- impoverish the biosphere to an extent that will persist for at least 200,000 human generations.

Recognizing that the loss of species at this level of magnitude will have profound implications from both a utilitarian and moral perspective, the Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy 's mission is to address legal and political issues concerning the human race's interrelationship with and management of wildlife species, their habitats, and the biosphere. This includes analysis of the efficacy of international and regional wildlife treaty regimes in conserving species (as well as national legislation and regulations enacted to implement such regimes), the impact of judicial decisions at both the national and international level, and the interface of legal and political institutions with other sectors in society that have a substantive impact on the management and conservation of species and ecosystems.

The Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy 's readership includes conservation professionals; members of academic institutions specializing in wildlife law, ecology, and wildlife management; government agencies; non-governmental conservation organizations; students in conservation and law-related disciplines; and interested members of the general public.

Peer Review Policy:

All research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and double anonymized peer review.

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  • 0.461 (2023) SNIP
  • 0.169 (2023) SJR

Editorial board

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Richard Caddell

Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales

REVIEW EDITOR

Iyan Offor

Birmingham City University, Birmingham,UK

EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD
Rachelle Adam - Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Peter Alagona - Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
Rob Amos - University of Greenwich, UK
Julie Ayling - College of Law, Australian National University, Acton, ACT
Jonathan Barzdo - CITES Consultant and former Deputy Secretary-General of the Ramsar Convention, Trelex, Switzerland
Irus Braverman - School of Law, University at Buffalo, NY
Sudhir K. Chopra - Formerly of the Cambridge Central Asia Forum
Ed Couzens - School of Law, University of Sydney, NSW
Elizabeth De Santo - Earth & Environment, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA
Naomi Doak - Elephant Protection Initiative Foundation, London, UK
David Favre - College of Law, Michigan State University, Lansing, MI
David Freestone - Sargasso Sea Commission, Washington D.C.
Eric Freyfogle - College of Law, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL
Royal Gardner - Stetson University College of Law, Gulfport, FL
Alexander Gillespie - Faculty of Law, University of Waikato, New Zealand
Edward Goodwin - Nottingham University, Nottingham, UK
Catarina Grilo - Oceans Program, The Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
Lynette Hart - School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA
Ronit Hanani - Tel Aviv University, Israel
Kathy Hessler - Lewis and Clark Law School, Portland, OR
Eric Hull - Florida Coastal School of Law, Jacksonville, FL
Cameron Jefferies - Faculty of Law, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
Gregory Jones KC - Francis Taylor Building, Inner Temple, London, UK
Thomas Kelch - Whittier Law School, Costa Mesa, CA
Franco Lammoglia - Mexico City, MX
Arielle Levine - Department of Geography, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
Darmawan Liswanto - Fauna & Flora International, Djakarta, Indonesia
Erica Lyman - Lewis and Clark Law School, Portland, OR
Jennifer Mailley - Home Office Centre for Applied Science and Technology, UK
Phillipa McCormack - University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
Elisa Morgera - University of Strathclyde, Scotland, UK
Salvador Munuzuri - Mexico City, MX
Ruth Musgrave - National Caucus of Environmental Legislators, Washington D.C.
Bruce Myers - AE Law PLLC, Washington, D.C.
Andre Nollkaemper - Faculty of Law, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL
Angus Nurse - Nottingham Trent University, UK
Iyan Offor - Birmingham City University, Birmingham, UK
Erin Okuno - Stetson University College of Law, Gulfport, FL
Patrick Parenteau - Vermont Law School, South Royalton, VT
Margi Prideaux - Wild Migration, Parndana, SA, Australia
Tianbo Qin - Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
Peter Reich - UCLA, CA
Sophie Riley - Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, NSW
Harriet Ritvo - Department of History, MIT, Cambridge, MA
Joan Schaffner - School of Law, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
William Schaedla - USAID, AZ
Jeffrey Smith - Faculty of Law, McGill University, Montreal, QC
Katie Sykes - Faculty of Law, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, B.C.
Erika Techera - Faculty of Law, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA
Anastasia Telesetsky - College of Law, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID
Dominique Thiriet - School of Law, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD
Arie Trouwborst - Tilburg Law School, Tilburg, NL
David VanderZwaag - Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University, NS
Annecoos Wiersema - Sturm College of Law, University of Denver, CO
Robert Wilson - Geography, The Maxwell School, Syracuse University, NY
Chris Wold - Lewis and Clark Law School, Portland, OR
Tanya Wyatt - Social Sciences & Languages, Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK
Keyuan Zou - Lancashire Law School, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK

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° TropAg & Rural

° Veterinary Science Database

° VetMed Resource

° World Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology Abstracts (Online)

• EBSCOhost

° Current Abstracts

° Environment Complete

° Environment Index

° Georef

° Index to Legal Periodicals & Books (H.W. Wilson)

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° TOC Premier

° Wildlife & Ecology Studies Worldwide

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° Scopus

• Gale

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• Ovid

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° ASFA Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts, Selective

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° Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management, Selective

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