Animal and Veterinary Sciences

Special Issue

Wildlife Forensics

  • Submission Deadline: Jan. 10, 2020
  • Status: Submission Closed
  • Lead Guest Editor: Vipin Sharma
About This Special Issue
This special issue addresses the issues of illegal trade of wildlife and wildlife parts of wild animal species. This special issue focuses on research on dealing the problem of illegal wildlife trade through genetics, morphometrics, toxicological and other methods. The issue also considers papers based on other techniques dealing with wildlife conservation.

Aims and Scope:

  1. Wildlife Conservation
  2. Dealing illegal wildlife trade through wildlife forensics
  3. Developing species identification SOPs to deal with illegal wildlife trade
  4. Issues related to spread of diseases through illegal wildlife trade
  5. Awareness about the wildlife forensics
  6. Geographic assignment of poached animals
Lead Guest Editor
  • Vipin Sharma

    Department of Zoology, Central University of Jammu, Jammu, India

Guest Editors
  • Mostafa Elmadawy

    Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Kafrelsheikh University, Kafrelsheikh, Egypt

  • Himanshu Joshi

    Human Wildlife Interface Management, Wildlife Conservation Trust, Mumbai, India

  • Vinita Sharma

    Central University of Jammu, Jammu, India

  • Puneet Pandey

    Amity University, Noida, India

  • Ashutosh Verma

    Central University of Jammu, Jammu, India

  • Md.Hemayatul Islam

    Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi, Bangladesh

  • Ved Prakash Kumar

    Wildlife Forensic and Conservation Genetics, Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, India

  • Gemechu Berhanu

    Department of Animal Science, Dambi Dollo University, Dambi Dollo, Ethiopia