Koedoe is a peer-reviewed, open access journal, published since 1958, which promotes protected area and biodiversity science and conservation in Africa. Koedoe, with its subtitle ‘African Protected Area Conservation and Science’, aims to provide a forum for all aspects of protected area science and management in order to facilitate integration and shared learning. Koedoe publishes original papers on all aspects of conservation science, as well as on policy and management-related issues. This journal provides innovative, exciting and baseline scientific information on many conservation areas within South Africa, as well as throughout the African continent. With its platform in the open access arena, Koedoe is becoming the journal of choice for conservation scientists, ecologists, biologists and protected area practitioners across Africa. We feature research all forms of protected areas, from large state national parks, to small regional and local game and nature reserves, cultural and environmental heritage sites, private conservation endeavours and general aspects related to biodiversity conservation. Furthermore, we promote shared learning through the integration of evidence-based policy and management-relevant science across a variety of settings in Africa and beyond. To this end, we have introduced a new structured abstract format that concludes with a 50-word summary statement entitled ‘Conservation implications’, in which authors succinctly highlight the core outcome of their research and the implications thereof for conservation practice. Disseminating reliable scientific and policy information is increasingly vital as global biodiversity faces increasing pressures and protected areas become more important in maintaining habitats, species, ecosystem services and in ensuring environmental resilience. However, the protected areas estate is increasingly fragmented under pressure from development and other global environmental change drivers. Africa’s unique socio-ecological systems, together with some of the largest protected areas in the world, are of global importance. Moreover, tourism initiatives are frequently centred on protected areas, thus providing economic stimulus in otherwise marginalised regions. Koedoe works towards understanding, documenting and mitigating the negative influences of human development on conservation areas within the context of complex socio-ecological interactions. Koedoe publishes stimulating original research, essays, short communications on issues of general interest, in-depth and critical reviews, book reviews on new releases, as well as checklists, which form the foundation on which further science and management is developed.

Koedoe是一份同行評(píng)議的開放獲取期刊，自1958年出版以來，致力于促進(jìn)非洲的保護(hù)區(qū)和生物多樣性科學(xué)與保護(hù)。Koedoe的副標(biāo)題是“非洲保護(hù)區(qū)保護(hù)與科學(xué)”，旨在為保護(hù)區(qū)科學(xué)與管理的各個(gè)方面提供一個(gè)論壇，以促進(jìn)融合和共享學(xué)習(xí)。Koedoe發(fā)表關(guān)于保護(hù)科學(xué)各個(gè)方面的原始論文，以及與政策和管理相關(guān)的問題。這本雜志提供了關(guān)于南非以及整個(gè)非洲大陸許多自然保護(hù)區(qū)的創(chuàng)新的、令人興奮的和基本的科學(xué)信息。Koedoe以其開放獲取的平臺(tái)，正成為非洲保護(hù)科學(xué)家、生態(tài)學(xué)家、生物學(xué)家和保護(hù)區(qū)從業(yè)人員的首選期刊。我們以研究各種形式的保護(hù)區(qū)為特色，從大型國家公園，到小型區(qū)域和當(dāng)?shù)氐尼鳙C和自然保護(hù)區(qū)，文化和環(huán)境遺產(chǎn)，私人保護(hù)工作和與生物多樣性保護(hù)有關(guān)的一般方面。此外，我們通過在非洲和其他地區(qū)的各種環(huán)境中整合基于證據(jù)的政策和管理相關(guān)科學(xué)，促進(jìn)共享學(xué)習(xí)。為此，我們引入了一種新的結(jié)構(gòu)化抽象格式，該格式以一個(gè)50字的摘要聲明結(jié)尾，標(biāo)題為“保護(hù)的含義”。在該聲明中，作者簡要地強(qiáng)調(diào)了他們研究的核心成果及其對(duì)保護(hù)實(shí)踐的影響。隨著全球生物多樣性面臨越來越大的壓力，保護(hù)區(qū)在維持生境、物種、生態(tài)系統(tǒng)服務(wù)和確保環(huán)境恢復(fù)力方面變得越來越重要，傳播可靠的科學(xué)和政策信息變得越來越重要。然而，在發(fā)展和其他全球環(huán)境變化驅(qū)動(dòng)因素的壓力下，保護(hù)區(qū)的房地產(chǎn)越來越分散。非洲獨(dú)特的社會(huì)生態(tài)系統(tǒng)以及世界上一些最大的保護(hù)區(qū)具有全球重要性。此外，旅游計(jì)劃往往集中在保護(hù)區(qū)，從而在其他邊緣化地區(qū)提供經(jīng)濟(jì)刺激。Koedoe致力于在復(fù)雜的社會(huì)生態(tài)相互作用的背景下理解、記錄和減輕人類發(fā)展對(duì)自然保護(hù)區(qū)的負(fù)面影響。Koedoe出版令人振奮的原始研究、論文、關(guān)于一般感興趣問題的簡短交流、深入和批判性的評(píng)論、關(guān)于新發(fā)行的書評(píng)以及核對(duì)表，這些構(gòu)成了進(jìn)一步發(fā)展科學(xué)和管理的基礎(chǔ)。