2023 issue now open
We are now accepting submissions for 2023. Please read the author guidelines carefully before submitting your manuscript.
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:
We are now accepting submissions for 2023. Please read the author guidelines carefully before submitting your manuscript.
Small Carnivore Conservation | ISSN 2957-4439 (print volumes from 1989 – 2014: ISSN 1019-5041).
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