2024 issue now open
The journal is now open and accepting submissions for 2024. Thank you to everyone for their help so far this year and for helping to finalise last year's submissions.
Small Carnivore Conservation is the peer-reviewed journal of the IUCN SSC Small Carnivore Specialist Group. The journal is open access and we do not charge any publication fees.
The journal’s focus is about:
It does not cover cats (Felidae), dogs (Canidae), or otters (Lutrinae, a subfamily of Mustelidae) as these taxa are covered by other IUCN SSC specialist groups and their journals. However, the journal does publish ‘by-catch’ data on these three taxa from camera-trapping, surveys and observations as part of a manuscript that is focused primarily on one (or more) of the nine small carnivore families listed above.
The majority of small carnivores are very poorly known and researched; anything that has the potential to inform small carnivore conservation will be considered for publication. Some examples include:
The journal is now open and accepting submissions for 2024. Thank you to everyone for their help so far this year and for helping to finalise last year's submissions.
Small Carnivore Conservation | ISSN 2957-4439 (print volumes from 1989 – 2014: ISSN 1019-5041).
Published by the IUCN SSC Small Carnivore Specialist Group under the terms of a Creative Commons CC BY-NC 4.0 License