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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Under the "About" dropdown, 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.
Under the "About" dropdown, 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.
The "Posts (By Region)" dropdown 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.
Under the "Posts (By Theme)", we catalog the latest news within each of four overarching thematic categories: commentary (editorials, perspectives, etc.), science, policies, and practices.
Un the "Posts (By Date)" dropdown, every news update we provide will be cataloged within the month and year we posted that specific bit of news.
Freeman Tilden, considered the father of natural history interpretation, once wrote: “Through interpretation, understanding; through understanding, appreciation; through appreciation, protection." Our hope is the Carnivore Conservation Compendium will lead more people to take more action toward protecting carnivores of all shapes, sizes, and geographies.
This news service was started by Tom Skeele, a long time fan of, and twenty-plus year advocate for, the furry fanged ones (hence the initial prioritzation of species on this website). In due time, Tom hopes to have a few others with appropriate ecological and editorial expertise join him in supporting this news service.
While we reguarly scan social media, news services, and other sources for the latest information regarding carnivore conservation, we make no assumptions we're seeing all the latest news worth sharing. Please fell free to share any carnivore-related news story, press release, scientific paper, editorial, or the like, so we have that much more to chew on. Thanks.
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