ABOUT THE COMPEDIUM
The What, Where, When, and
How of the Compendium
Purpose
Welcome to the Carnivore Conservation Compendium. Please consider this website as your one stop feeding frenzy of the latest news on carnivores and their conservation from around the globe.
Frequency
As we launch this project in early 2025, our goal is to provide regular news updates about carnivores and their conservation. We will provide this news through two mechanisms: [1] almost daily news posts on various social media platforms, and [2] a bi-weekly summary of the latest news sent by email to subscribers.
Content
These updates will address as much of the latest thinking, science, policies, and practices regarding carnivore conservation as we can capture, digest, and regurgitate on a daily or bi-weekly basis. Also, when time and resources allow, we or other carnivore advocates and experts will provide commentary – opinions, perspectives, and/or analysis – on these morsels of news.
Target Audience
While we hope this site will be valuable to laypeople and professionals alike, our intention is to be a news service for the former, not a scientific bulletin for the latter.
Species of focus
For the foreseeable future, we will focus on the most iconic, imperiled, or otherwise prioritized terrestrial carnivores. This includes upwards of fifty species and sub-species of wild canids (dogs), felines (cats), ursī (bears), mustelids (weasels), and other land dwelling carnivores.
Plans for Expansion
We acknowledge the subjective nature of this initial list, including the obvious omission of all marine, freshwater, and avian carnivores. As resources allow, we will expand the compendium to include these equally important carnivores.
What you will find on this website
Species By Group
Under the Species by Group section, you will see links to the five categories of terrestrial carnivores we are presently tracking: wild canids (dogs), felines (cats), ursī (bears), mustelids (weasels), and hyenas. These links will take you to what we hope is a complete list of the species in each category, as well as links to overviews of each species on both Wikipedia and the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List.
Species By Region
Under the Species by Region section, you will see links to the five geographic regions of the planet where we are presently tracking species: Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America. Within each region, you will find a list of all the terrestrial carnivores species for that region. We acknowledge the subjective nature of this list of geographies. In due time, with adequate resources, we will expand this list to include Antarctica and Oceania.
Stories By Theme
Under the Stories by Theme, we catalog the latest news within each of four overarching thematic categories: commentary (editorials, perspectives, etc.), science, policies, and practices.
Stories By Region
The Stories By Region section presents all of the news we’ve posts within each of the five geographic regions of the planet where we are tracking our priority species: Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America. We acknowledge the subjective nature of this list of geographies. In due time, with adequate resources, we will expand this list to include Antarctica and Oceania.