Dear colleagues
Happy New Year!
We begin 2026 with exciting news: the final draft of the extended IUCN/SSC CTSG HWIWG Guidance on Human-Wildlife Interactions in Conservation Translocations is going through peer review right now!
This is a more complete version of our 2022 paper containing links, decision trees and case studies, to be used as an online resource. Another short 'field' version (10 pages) will follow. More details soon, as we hope to
have a final version available for sharing with our community in the next few months.
Another piece of good news is that
we are proposing an organised session for Pathways Europe 2026
"Wildlife and Human Well-being" at Oxford Brookes University (June 14-17, 2026) as a joint effort between our working group and the People and Conservation Translocations (PaCT) network (UK):
Title: What does 'success' in Conservation Translocations look like for people and wildlife?
This session invites case studies from CTs to present and discuss their experience with HD, the proposed or experienced outcomes of their projects and their frameworks for evaluating success in relation to both wildlife and
people. Case studies will be discussed in view of our 2022
Frontiers | Guidelines to Facilitate Human-Wildlife Interactions in Conservation Translocations | Conservation Science (frontiersin.org) and the PaCT report (2025, attached) as frameworks that support planning, decision making and evaluation of projects
to help them approach and address human dimensions within the particular context of CTs towards positive outcomes for people and biodiversity.
If you would like to present a case study
(15 minutes presentation followed by panel discussion) please get in touch as we are preparing the programme.
A quick round up of 2025 activities:
In February we invited Laura Perry (IUCN SSC CEC Behaviour Change Task Force) to lead a talk and discussion on
Behaviour Change, which was followed by a full online workshop in May on the same theme, both very well attended by you highlighting a widespread interest on the theme.
The HWIWG has focused on preparing the two new versions of the Guidance on HWI in CT during the year and had great opportunities to take part in international discussion forums with experts and practitioners from different
countries to talk about this process. In September we were honoured to be part of the
TRANSLOC Workshop at the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, which was organised by Prof. Francois Sarrazin (Sorbonne Universite), to talk about the development of the Guidance for HWI in CT; and in December we were thrilled to accept
an invitation by Martin Gaywood to join the meeting of the National Species Reintroduction Forum of Scotland, focussed on Human Dimensions of Conservation Translocations, to talk about the drafting of IUCN Guidelines on human dimensions of conservation
translocations.
We will be working on a new schedule of talks and discussions centred around human dimensions of conservation translocations for 2026 soon. If you would like to propose a theme or lead a discussion please contact us- we are
always happy to discuss new approaches and key issues.
For now, here is a podcast shared by Anish Banerjee (IUCN/SSC Canid Specialist Group) on the theme of
free-ranging dogs associated with wildlife conservation. As these have serious implications to CT finding solutions for people and wildlife remains a theme of interest:
"In this episode, the guest, Arshyaan Shahid, discusses the growing risks posed by free-ranging
dogs, including hybridisation, disease transmission, and competition with native wild canids—particularly golden jackals, Himalayan wolves, and Indian wolves. He also outlines his ongoing research on free-ranging dog ecology, unpacks the controversy surrounding
recent legal rulings, and reflects on potential pathways to mitigate this escalating ecological crisis."
The Free-Ranging Dog Crisis: India’s Ecological and Public Health Dilemma | Arshyaan Shahid
Best wishes for 2026!
Adriana and core group
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Dr. Adriana Consorte-McCrea
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IUCN SSC/Conservation Translocation Specialist Group,
Chair of the Human-Wildlife Interactions Working Group
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Out now:
Marino, F., Auster, R., Barlow, C., Bavin, D., Consorte-McCrea, A., Dando, T., Hare, D., Holmes, G., Gaywood, M., MacPherson, J., McDonald, R., Pouget,
D., Thomas, V., Turvey, S., White, R., & Crowley, S. (2025). Evaluating Motivations and Outcomes in Conservation Translocations. PaCT / University of Exeter.
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15878463
Human
Dimensions of Animal Translocations in
Frontiers in Conservation Science.
Find
Consorte-McCrea A, Kolipaka S, Owens JR, Ruiz-Miranda CR and Waters S (2022) Guidelines to Facilitate Human-Wildlife Interactions in Conservation Translocations.
Front. Conserv. Sci. 3:788520. doi: 10.3389/fcosc.2022.788520
Frontiers | Guidelines to Facilitate Human-Wildlife Interactions in Conservation Translocations | Conservation Science (frontiersin.org)
Find Consorte-McCrea, A., Fernandez, A., Bainbridge, A., Moss, A., Prévot, A-C., Clayton, S., Glikman, J.A., Johansson, M., López-Bao, J.V., Bath,
A., Frank, B. and Marchini, S. (2019). Nature Conservation, Pensoft.DOI 10.3897/natureconservation.37.39501"Large
carnivores and zoos as catalysts for engaging the public in the protection of biodiversity”
Find Consorte-McCrea, A., Bainbridge, A., Fernandez, A., Nigbur, D., McDonnell, S., Grent, O., Morin, A., (2017).Understanding attitudes towards
native wildlife and biodiversity in the UK: the role of zoos. In Sustainable Development Research at Universities in the United Kingdom, ch 17. Ed. Walter Leal Filho. World Sustainability Series, Springer International. DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-47883-8_17
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-47883-8_17
Find the book
The Ecology and Conservation of the maned wolf: multidisplinary perspectives, edited by Adriana Consorte-McCrea and Eliana Ferraz Santos, 2014. CRC Press, London, here:http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781466512597
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