Cecil, the fish

Ten years on for the Letter from the Conservation Front Line

“…With this editorial, we'd like to celebrate the successful first 10 years of this section of the journal in terms of the number of Letters published over these years, the high numbers of downloads and citations received by many of these publications, and the broad geographic representation in their authorship. Since its inception, we have so far published 39 Letters in this series, ranging from trophy hunting of fish (Costa‐Pereira, 2016), to the impacts of artisanal gold exploitation within protected areas in Madagascar (Cabeza et al ., 2019) and paying fishers to conserve endangered guitarfish in Brazil (Wosnick, Da Costa De Lima Wosiak, & Machado Filho, 2020), through to the role of citizen science in generating conservation actions in Italy (Battisti & Gippoliti, 2024). If the download figures are anything to go by, these Letters have been widely read and some are well cited: according to our publisher's data, most have been downloaded at least 500 and several over a thousand times.…”