Preface

This guide grew out of experience advising authors submitting material to Oryx—The International Journal of Conservation and from the journal’s collaboration with the Conservation Leadership Programme.

To access the guide, use the Chapters menu, above.

Development of this guide is ongoing. If there is something you would like us to add, or if you have an interesting map or plot study that you would like us to include, please write to oryx@fauna-flora.org.

Writing for Conservation is published by Fauna & Flora International with the support of The Rufford Foundation and the John Spedan Lewis Foundation.

Please cite this guide as:

Fisher, M. (2019) Writing for Conservation. Fauna & Flora International, Cambridge, UK. Https://www.oryxthejournal.org/writing-for-conservation-guide.

Text, design and graphics by Martin Fisher, with thanks to Andy Cameron, Cella Carr, Emma Muench, Jessica Haskell, Julia Hochbach, Lizzie Duthie, Maria Luisa de Castro Fisher and Marianne Carter for advice on design and related matters, Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares, Bill Adams, Brendan Fisher, Brettt Wilson, Damien Fourcy, Daniel Edwards, David Roberts, E.J. Milner-Gulland, John Robinson, Kent Redford, Liana Chua, Miloslav Petrtýl and Stuart Paterson for useful comments, the helpful members of the QGIS and Veusz mailing lists, and the participants of the Writing for Conservation workshops held in Brazil, Cambodia, Colombia, Finland, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Liberia, Mauritius, Philippines and the UK for sharing their concerns, experiences and hopes, and, of course, their writing and their graphics.

Writing for Conservation was prepared using the msmbstyle package for bookdown, in the Assistant font. The layout is inspired by Tufte styling, which uses a wide right margin for sidenotes, captions, and small figures and tables, facilitating the tight integration of graphics, tables and text.