Conservation & Society (www.conservationandsociety.org) is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary open access journal dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practice of conservation. The journal draws on both natural and social sciences, and covers basic and applied research in areas including but not restricted to political ecology, environmental history, anthropology and sociology, human ecology, conservation policy and governance, human-wildlife conflicts, ecosystem structure and functioning, systematics, community and species ecology, behavioural ecology, landscape ecology, restoration ecology, and conservation biology.