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Promoting long-term local ownership of natural heritage through outreach: the case of the endemic Bolivian titi monkeys.

Folia Primatol (Basel)

July 2024

2015Wildlife Conservation Society, Jaime Mendoza St. 987, Calacoto - San Miguel, La Paz, Bolivia.

Adequate knowledge and learning about local biodiversity are a prerequisite for effective attitudinal changes in favour of species protection. Outreach activities are considered a useful tool for sharing information with local stakeholders who play a crucial role in conserving wildlife. We conducted two outreach campaigns focused on schoolchildren in two villages to share information on the natural history of the Bolivian endemic titi monkeys, Plecturocebus olallae and Plecturocebus modestus, to promote their conservation.

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Conservation education as a key element in fighting species extinction. One of the key objectives of environmental education is to promote pro-environmental behaviours; increasing knowledge and understanding are the first steps. An understanding of the forest and its links to human and wildlife health is essential to foster forest protection.

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Moving on. A farewell from the last Editor-in-Chief who says: 'Rehabilitation is a way of thinking, not a way of doing'.

Clin Rehabil

March 2023

Centre for Movement, Occupation and Rehabilitation Sciences (MOReS), 6395Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK.

What is rehabilitation? From 1994 to 2021, while I was privileged to be Editor of Clinical Rehabilitation, I explored this in editorials. I also encouraged and selected submissions that considered, in one way or another, the central features of rehabilitation. Why? Because when I started in rehabilitation, the general attitude among doctors and other healthcare professionals was that rehabilitation was pleasant but with no evidence of effectiveness.

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Individuals abstaining from alcohol consumption frequently find themselves in contexts encouraging consumption, with limited alternative social interaction opportunities. Conscious clubbing events exclude alcohol and drugs, possibly providing valuable social connections, but little is known about event benefits. Twelve conscious clubbing event attendees and facilitators aged 25-55 from across Europe participated in semi-structured photo-elicitation interviews, which were analysed using thematic analysis.

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Prolonged disorders of consciousness: A response to a "critical evaluation of the new UK guidelines.".

Clin Rehabil

September 2022

Academic Neurosurgery, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, 406021University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK.

Background: In 2020, The London Royal College of Physicians published "Prolonged disorders of consciousness following sudden-onset brain injury: national clinical guidelines". In 2021, in the journal Brain, Scolding et al. published "a critical evaluation of the new UK guidelines".

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