Conservation and Society is a quarterly, open-access, peer-reviewed, academic journal covering political ecology, human–wildlife conflicts, decentralised conservation, conservation policy, ecosystem structure and functioning, systematics, community and species ecology, behavioural ecology, landscape ecology, restoration ecology, and conservation biology. The editor-in-chief is Kamaljit Bawa (University of Massachusetts Amherst). The journal was established in 2003 and published biannually until 2005. Conservation and Society is published by Medknow Publications on behalf of the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, headquartered in Bangalore, India.
Abstracting and indexing
Conservation and Society is abstracted and indexed in: Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts EBSCO Publishing's Electronic Databases Ecology Abstracts Human Population and the Environment Abstracts Science Citation Index Expanded ProQuest Web of Science Scopus According to Journal Citation Reports, the journal's 2022 Impact Factor is 2.492.