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{"title":"Human well-being indicators as a boundary object for social science integration into conservation","authors":"David J. Trimbach,&nbsp;Kelly Biedenweg","doi":"10.1111/cobi.14459","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14459","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Social science integration into conservation has taken many forms. We considered social science integration through human well-being indicator development and monitoring in Puget Sound (Washington, USA). We frame human well-being as a boundary object, which through boundary work and embedded social science research, has led to the integration of the social sciences into regional conservation. Through our framing, we show how human well-being indicator development and monitoring has produced 5 outcomes, which include the enhancement of a social-ecological narrative; institutionalization of social scientific expertise; integrated restoration planning and actions; funding for social science and monitoring; and provision of environmental justice data.</p>","PeriodicalId":10689,"journal":{"name":"Conservation Biology","volume":"39 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143740972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Navigating data challenges in socioeconomic impact assessments of conservation regimes","authors":"Reem Hajjar,&nbsp;Johan A. Oldekop,&nbsp;Roberto Toto,&nbsp;Lucas Alencar,&nbsp;Samuel D. Bell,&nbsp;Katie Devenish,&nbsp;Duong T. Khuu,&nbsp;Mariana Hernandez-Montilla,&nbsp;Suhyun Jung,&nbsp;Sandy Nofyanza,&nbsp;Lok Mani Sapkota","doi":"10.1111/cobi.14457","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14457","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Scholars are increasingly assessing the impact of conservation interventions at national and regional scales with robust causal inference methods designed to emulate randomized control trials (quasi-experimental methods). Although spatial and temporal data to measure habitat loss and gain with remote sensing tools are increasingly available, data to measure spatially explicit poverty and human well-being at a high resolution are far less available. Bridging this data gap is essential to assess the social outcomes of conservation actions at scale and improve understanding of socioenvironmental synergies and trade-offs. We reviewed the kinds of socioeconomic data that are publicly available to measure the effects of conservation interventions on poverty and well-being, including national census data, representative household surveys funded by international organizations, surveys collected for individual research programs, and high-resolution gridded poverty and well-being data sets. We considered 4 challenges in the use of these data sets: consistency and availability of indicators and metrics across regions and countries, availability of data at appropriate temporal and spatial resolutions, and technical considerations associated with data available in different formats. Potential workarounds to these challenges include analytical methods to help resolve data mismatches and the use of emerging data products.</p>","PeriodicalId":10689,"journal":{"name":"Conservation Biology","volume":"39 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cobi.14457","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143741058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A social network analysis of an epistemic community studying neoliberal conservation","authors":"Brittany Bunce,&nbsp;Elia Apostolopoulou,&nbsp;Sara Maestre Andres,&nbsp;Alejandra Pizarro Choy,&nbsp;Marina Requena-i-Mora,&nbsp;Dan Brockington","doi":"10.1111/cobi.70001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.70001","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Researchers typically operate in epistemic communities: groups that share common approaches to research agendas and sociopolitical action and define areas of debate. Although productive in their own spheres, a lack of understanding among these communities can undermine scientific progress. Thus, analyzing epistemic communities is important for understanding the politics of knowledge production. Social network analysis sheds light on these dynamics by mapping the collaborative networks that shape academic output. We used 255 publications examined in Apostolopoulou et al.’s review of neoliberal conservation literature and 2135 additional publications in a social network analysis. We compiled a coauthorship network for 318 authors and found a dispersed and polycentric network with low connectivity and relatively small clusters of scholars collaborating within tightly knit groups. Although the structure is conducive to innovation and diversity, building new connections among dispersed coauthor groups could enrich knowledge sharing to drive novel approaches. We identified central actors in building collaborations among communities and communicating ideas across the network. We considered actor attributes, such as gender and geographic location, alongside centrality measures. We found that seventy percent of the 20 authors with the highest betweenness centrality were men, and only one male author was affiliated to an institution in the Global South. Our analysis of thematic clusters in the literature highlighted the spatial patchiness and partialness of the literature across different subfields. Scholars should undertake more work on identified themes in currently excluded geographic regions through effective interdisciplinary collaborations and with local communities of research and practice and grassroots movements. There is a need to strengthen the field's intellectual diversity and to have a deeper engagement with issues of class, gender, and race. This would allow neoliberal conservation to reimagine conservation in ways that are not only environmentally sustainable, but also socially just.</p>","PeriodicalId":10689,"journal":{"name":"Conservation Biology","volume":"39 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cobi.70001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143740971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Integrating criminology, criminal justice, and crime science in conservation science and practice","authors":"William D. Moreto,&nbsp;Richard L. Elligson","doi":"10.1111/cobi.70006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.70006","url":null,"abstract":"<p>It has been argued that the integration of the social sciences is crucial in understanding the human dimensions of conservation. Because the human dimensions of conservation can include the violation of conservation law and policies, criminology, criminal justice, and crime science may prove useful for the broader conservation community by providing insight into factors that influence criminal behavior, how the criminal justice system functions, and how crime occurs and can be prevented. Fortunately, criminologists, criminal justice scholars, and crime scientists are increasingly conducting conceptual and empirical research on conservation-related topics. We devised a theory of change that demonstrates how these fields can be integrated along with other conservation social sciences, and how enabling conditions can foster the integration of criminology, criminal justice, and crime science in conservation science and practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":10689,"journal":{"name":"Conservation Biology","volume":"39 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143741057","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Gap analysis of social science resources for conservation practice","authors":"Diane Detoeuf,&nbsp;Emiel de Lange,&nbsp;Harriet Ibbett,&nbsp;Trisha Gupta,&nbsp;Constanza Monterrubio Solís,&nbsp;Krossy Mavakala,&nbsp;Mariana Labão Catapani,&nbsp;Heidi E. Kretser,&nbsp;Eleanor J. Milner-Gulland,&nbsp;Stephanie Brittain,&nbsp;Helen Newing,&nbsp;Brandie Fariss,&nbsp;Charlotte Spira,&nbsp;Harold N. Eyster,&nbsp;Nicole DeMello,&nbsp;Kenneth E. Wallen,&nbsp;Sara A. Thornton,&nbsp;Nathan J. Bennett,&nbsp;Li Ling Choo","doi":"10.1111/cobi.14463","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14463","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Conservation is an inherently social process—people collectively endeavor to enact conservation. Yet, in conservation social science, research methodologies, training, and competency are less common than in natural sciences. Globally, formal education and training in the social sciences are often unavailable or inaccessible to conservation practitioners, and nonformal education may help fill this gap. To identify potential opportunities, we implemented a global survey of practitioners to identify their knowledge gaps and social science training needs and conducted a gap analysis of available social science training resources. We compiled 449 resources, including 266 English-language and 183 non-English-languages resources into an open-access online database hosted by the Conservation Social Science Partnership. Resources were categorized as communication, data collection, ethics and human rights, intervention, impact evaluation, or analysis. Most resources were open access (90%) and half were specific to conservation practice. Survey responses (<i>n</i> = 90) revealed demand for help with data analyses, research ethics, and human rights considerations. We found a need for organization leaders to prioritize social sciences in conservation, greater diversity of accessible training resources in alternate mediums and languages, resources tailored to conservation contexts, and additional ethics and human rights and data analysis resources.</p>","PeriodicalId":10689,"journal":{"name":"Conservation Biology","volume":"39 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cobi.14463","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143741320","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Improving transparency in conservation social science research to enhance quality, equity, and collaboration","authors":"Marie-Annick Moreau,&nbsp;Emily Woodhouse","doi":"10.1111/cobi.70003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.70003","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Recognition of the value of multidisciplinary research that bridges natural and social science perspectives has come with calls for conservation scientists to reflect critically on underlying assumptions and power relations involved in the production of knowledge and its application. We propose that improving transparency in conservation social science—around researchers’ positionality, study limitations, and fieldwork challenges—is essential to and depends on enhanced reflexivity and can allow readers to assess research quality, foster ethical research, and support constructive dialogue and collaboration across subdisciplines of conservation science. We assessed gaps and opportunities for enhanced transparency based on an in-depth review of 39 papers on the social impacts of protected areas published in 12 conservation journals from 2010 to 2022. We evaluated transparency in these publications based on whether authors reported on their collaborations, values, and identity; methodology and methods; data collection; influence of the wider sociopolitical context; potential limitations and challenges; and linked recommendations to evidence. Authors reported consistently on research aims, intended methods, and sampling strategy but provided limited information on their backgrounds; relationships between authors, field teams, and participants; and field site. Gaps included not reporting who collected the data (lacking from 43% of papers), whether data collectors spoke participants’ language (46%), participant recruitment strategy (56%), women's representation in samples (41%), and time spent in the field (28%). Based on our findings, we devised a reflexive tool relevant to field-based studies and advice on preparing positionality statements for use by researchers, reviewers, and journal editors. We recommend conservation social scientists shift their expectations of what is reflected on and reported in publications, develop positionality statements, engage with other available reflexive tools, and adopt the first person in their writing to make more visible their role and responsibilities in the research process.</p>","PeriodicalId":10689,"journal":{"name":"Conservation Biology","volume":"39 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cobi.70003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143741370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Insights on human−wildlife coexistence from social science and Indigenous and traditional knowledge","authors":"Helina Jolly,&nbsp;Amanda Stronza","doi":"10.1111/cobi.14460","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14460","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Much work on human−wildlife conflict focuses on safeguarding wildlife from humans and vice versa, protecting humans, their crops, livestock, and property from wildlife, and mitigating negative, sometimes lethal encounters. The emphasis is on conflict, a framing that reinforces human−nature dualisms and instills the notion of humans and wild animals as adversaries. Although human−wildlife interactions are sometimes negative, they can also be neutral, coadaptive, and mutually beneficial. They can demonstrate coexistence. Conservationists have tended to overlook or simplify such relations. They have either failed to define coexistence or characterized it as the outcome of externally driven conservation strategies. Conflict has been perceived as the norm, with coexistence a distant ideal. This way of seeing ignores the many ways people have coexisted with wildlife and coadapted with wild animals in multispecies landscapes for generations. We encourage greater attention to Indigenous and traditional experiences and knowledge, and seeing how coexistence can be a norm, which sometimes includes negative interactions and conflict. Scholars in geography, anthropology, animal studies, philosophy, Indigenous studies, and multispecies ethnography offer insights into how paying attention to coexistence can reshape understanding of human−wildlife interactions that decenters humans, and actively supports ethical conservation. Contributions from social scientists include focusing on relational ways of thinking and seeing that the lives of humans and other beings are intertwined and not governed solely by conflict.</p>","PeriodicalId":10689,"journal":{"name":"Conservation Biology","volume":"39 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cobi.14460","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143741054","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Changes in community composition and functional diversity of European bats under climate change.","authors":"Penelope C Fialas, Luca Santini, Danilo Russo, Francisco Amorim, Hugo Rebelo, Roberto Novella-Fernandez, Francisco Marques, Adi Domer, Adriana Vella, Adriano Martinoli, Aleksandra Figurek, Asaf Tsoar, Attila Sandor, Carlos Ibanez, Carmi Korine, Christian Kerbiriou, Christian Voigt, Claire Mifsud, Csaba Jére, Dalhoumi Ridha, Damiano Preatoni, Daniela Hamidović, Eeva-Maria Tidenberg, Emrah Çoraman, Fiona Mathews, Fulgencio Lison, Furmankiewicz Joanna, Gunars Petersons, Hiba Loumassine, Inazio Garin, István Csősz, Jaan Liira, Javier Juste, Jean François Julien, Jeroen van der Kooij, Josić Darija, Joxerra Aihartza, Katrine Eldegard, Kendra Phelps, Kevin J Olival, Kipson Marina, Leonardo Ancillotto, Lesiński Grzegorz, Levente Barti, Lisette Cantú Salazar, Luciano Bosso, Luisa Rodrigues, Luke Hamel, Marcel Uhrin, Maria Mas, Natasa Cerekovic, Nia Toshkova, Niamh Roche, Oliver Kalda, Ostaizka Aizpurua, Panagiotis Georgiakakis, Peter Kanuch, Primož Presetnik, Rasit Bilgin, Reed April McKay, Rnjak Dina, Rnjak Goran, Ruczyński Ireneusz, Rune Sørås, Solène Robert, Stéphane Aulagnier, Stephanie Kramer-Schadt, Suren Gazaryan, Szilárd-Lehel Bücs, Tarkan Yorulmaz, Torsten Stjernberg, Ulla-Maija Liukko, Victoria Nistreanu, Viesturs Vintulis, Viktoriia Radchuk, Xavier Puig-Montserrat, Yves Bas, Maja Zagmajster, Marcin Zegarek, Zrnčić Vida, Orly Razgour","doi":"10.1111/cobi.70025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.70025","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Climate change is predicted to drive geographical range shifts that will result in changes in species diversity and functional composition and have potential repercussions for ecosystem functioning. However, the effect of these changes on species composition and functional diversity (FD) remains unclear, especially for mammals, specifically bats. We used species distribution models and a comprehensive ecological and morphometrical trait database to estimate how projected future climate and land-use changes could influence the distribution, composition, and FD of the European bat community. Future bat assemblages were predicted to undergo substantial shifts in geographic range and trait structure. Range suitability decreased substantially in southern Europe and increased in northern latitudes. Our findings highlight the potential for climate change to drive shifts in bat FD, which has implications for ecosystem function and resilience at a continental scale. It is important to incorporate FD in conservation strategies. These efforts should target species with key functional traits predicted to be lost and areas expected to experience losses in FD. Conservation strategies should include habitat and roost protection, enhancing landscape connectivity, and international monitoring to preserve bat populations and their ecosystem services.</p>","PeriodicalId":10689,"journal":{"name":"Conservation Biology","volume":" ","pages":"e70025"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143751503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Emerging human dimensions research in coastal and nearshore Oceania","authors":"Rachel Dacks,&nbsp;Shreya Yadav,&nbsp;Alexander Mawyer","doi":"10.1111/cobi.14455","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14455","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Calls for incorporating human dimensions into marine conservation have increased and begun to coalesce as marine social science. However, it is unclear what types of research and foci have been centered in this new interdisciplinary field and what gaps remain. Seeking to clarify the state of marine social science's emerging discourses and methods, we conducted a systematic mapping review of human dimensions studies in coastal and nearshore Oceania published from 2016 to 2022. We reviewed 684 studies, most of which appeared in interdisciplinary marine science journals. We deductively coded studies using previously established human dimensions categories. Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, Hawaiʻi, and Fiji were the focus of 65% of studies despite comprising only a fraction of the total region. Emerging themes of the study included Indigenous worldviews, complex and nuanced drivers of human behavior, diverse human–ocean relationships, and social equity and justice. Some of the studies notably complicated common assumptions about human behavior in marine domains. Over half of the studies used mixed methods, engaging multiple perspectives and allowing for a more comprehensive understanding of research domains that may set marine social science apart in its ability to incorporate understudied human dimensions into marine conservation. Participatory methods, although not yet common, provide a valuable suite of approaches to understanding issues of social equity in marine management and studies of sensory and affective dimensions, also uncommon, could be of high value in filling gaps in understanding of people's complex relationships with marine places. Expanding interdisciplinary training for the next generation of marine stewards and transdisciplinary collaborations will provide opportunities to further mainstream marine social science for a richer, more comprehensive, and just understanding of the world's peopled seas.</p>","PeriodicalId":10689,"journal":{"name":"Conservation Biology","volume":"39 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cobi.14455","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143741109","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Conservation and the social sciences revisited","authors":"Alia M. Dietsch,&nbsp;Matthew J. Selinske,&nbsp;Lily M. van Eeden,&nbsp;Kwan-Lamar Blount-Hill,&nbsp;Rina S. Hauptfeld,&nbsp;Sayan Banerjee,&nbsp;Stephanie Brittain,&nbsp;Francisco Gelves-Gómez,&nbsp;Amit Kaushik,&nbsp;Patricia Manzano Fischer,&nbsp;M. Kutub Uddin,&nbsp;Kenneth E. Wallen","doi":"10.1111/cobi.14462","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14462","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;The concept of a biodiversity crisis emerged in the 1980s to reflect the severe, ongoing losses of plants, animals, and habitats. Conservation biologists, such as Soulé (&lt;span&gt;1985&lt;/span&gt;), acknowledged that human activities affect the planet and that the biological sciences would need other approaches, including social sciences, to curb the crisis. Forty years later, the world's premier international conservation society—the Society for Conservation Biology (SCB)—still centers biology in its name and practices in ways that may dissuade some from joining (Winkler-Schor et al., &lt;span&gt;2024&lt;/span&gt;). While the social sciences have gained increasing prominence in the SCB and conservation literature (Selinske et al., &lt;span&gt;2018&lt;/span&gt;; Wallen &amp; Landon, &lt;span&gt;2020&lt;/span&gt;), the need for conservation social science (CSS) insights has grown greater amid additional threats, such as climate change, conflicts over land rights, cultural homogenization, and rapidly advancing technologies (Miller et al., &lt;span&gt;2023&lt;/span&gt;; Sandbrook et al., &lt;span&gt;2021&lt;/span&gt;; World Bank, &lt;span&gt;2014&lt;/span&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Twenty years ago, Mascia et al. (&lt;span&gt;2003&lt;/span&gt;) called attention to the slow uptake of CSS contributions and set an agenda for integrating them into SCB, conservation organizations, and academia. Consequently, the SCB's Social Science Working Group (SSWG) was established in 2003. We (the 2022–2023 SSWG Board of Directors) commemorate SSWG's founding by outlining its achievements over the last 2 decades. Work remains to truly honor human contributions to conservation policy and practice. Thus, we emphasize the continued relevance of CSS in bringing about more effective, just, and enduring conservation efforts consistent with the Convention on Biological Diversity's (CBD) 2030 targets and 2050 vision of more inclusive conservation (CBD, &lt;span&gt;2022&lt;/span&gt;; Pascual et al., &lt;span&gt;2023&lt;/span&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The SSWG has developed into a global network and crucial hub for the continued mainstreaming of CSS under the leadership of a 12-person, member-elected, volunteer-run board of directors. The SSWG is SCB's largest working group, with 500–700 members representing over 60 countries, 4500 social media followers, and a 1400-subscriber listserv. Since 2003, SSWG has connected over 1000 people in structured and informal networking opportunities, and, since 2020, it has facilitated over 155 mentor–mentee pairings to support students, early career conservationists, and conservationists from underrepresented identities and geographies (see SSWG Annual Reports in Supporting Information).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The SSWG has improved the reach and practice of CSS through regular input, advocacy, training, and leadership. Regarding input and advocacy, SSWG Board members have served as SCB-related conference organizers, reviewed conference abstracts, nominated keynote speakers, and promoted CSS content online. Regarding training, SSWG has facilitated professional development and standards of practice","PeriodicalId":10689,"journal":{"name":"Conservation Biology","volume":"39 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cobi.14462","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143741321","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}