Scilight Press

Aims:

The International Journal of Wildlife Health & Conservation (IJWHC) is a gold open access, peer-reviewed journal that aims to promote multiple, inter-related, One Health goals in the publishing arena. We serve as a principal hub to communicate objective and transparent ground-breaking transdisciplinary wildlife health and conservation science. The IJWHC publishes original results of rigorous biomedical and ecological research on the health of captive and wild populations, host-pathogen interactions, and ecosystem processes. We advance our collective understanding of biodiversity patterns that influence organisms, populations, and communities, that underlay modern conservation strategies. The Journal advocates for preservation of global biodiversity, ecosystem health, and pragmatic conservation principles. As such, we educate professionals and the public alike and foster discourse on the status of anthropogenic impacts to critical species and habitats, discussing how such direct consequences to wildlife affect agriculture, domestic animal welfare, and public health in the long term. The IJWHC is published quarterly online by Scilight Press.

Scope:

The scope of the IJWHC is focused upon primary scientific publications on the staus, well being, and preservation of all wildlife. The Journal’s focus is global. This decision is predicated on the inarguable observation that there is no primary hot spot when considering wildlife health, as examples range from both georgaphic poles to the Tropics. Our taxonomic subject area is also broad. Besides emblematic avian and mammalian species information on cold-blooded vertebrates, from fish to reptiles, and invertebrates are welcomed. The realm of the IJWHC includes free-ranging wildlife, as well as conservation programs focused upon captive breeding and research for eventual release. Prions, viruses, bacteria, protozoa, helminths, and other organsisms within species, populations, and communities, illustrate the biodiversity that reflects the scope of the IJWHC, with an emphasis extended to new scholars within lower and middle income countries for holisitic ecosystem preservation.