“Fifty shades of sustainability?”: 5-Dimensional Framework for Assessing the Sustainability of Wildlife Use is Published in PLoS Sustainability and Transformation

Having been successfully piloted in various countries,

the ‘5DSAF’ has been published in PLoS Sustainability and Transformation.

The pilots were based in Tanzania (the newly legalised game meat industry); Zimbabwe (crocodile farming and crocodile trophy hunting); Indonesia (reptile skin trade), and South Africa (game ranching). They demonstrated that 5DSAF is useful as a management tool at an enterprise level, is meaningful for evaluating entire industry sectors, and is straightforward to apply.

Being published is a significant first step in pushing this tool to more practical uses. Having presented a learning zone session on it at IUCN World Conservation Congress, we have also been able to obtain in-person feedback from congress particpants, and will continue to collaborate with partners on making this tool as applicable as possible.

Access the published article here:

‘Fifty Shades of Sustainability’

Many thanks to the authors for the time and dedication gone into this:

Dilys Roe, Anastasiya Timoshyna, Patrick Aust, James Compton, Osman Dar, John Donaldson, Nigel Dudley, Tiggy Grillo, Christina Hiller, Rachel Hoffmann, John-Mark Kilian, Christine Lippai, Nik Long, James MacGregor, Simon Marsh, Daniel Natusch, Mohammad Khalid Sayeed Pasha, Andrew Taylor, Francis Vorhies, Olivia Wilson-Holt