About Wild

Aims

Wild (ISSN 3042-4526) is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal specialized in the study of natural systems, their characterization and their dynamics. Interactions between primary and secondary environments/species are also welcome. The journal is published quarterly online by MDPI.

Wild’s main objective is the publication of high-quality research with a focus on wild species and communities, primary habitats, spontaneous dynamics, renaturation processes, natural land, nature and human interactions and perceptions. The journal publishes reviews, regular research papers (articles), perspectives, and communications. Other article types in line with our aims and scope will also be considered.

Wild deals with all aspects related to nature, including natural environments, renaturalization, restoration, wild species, ethical hunting, fishing, and other uses of natural resources linked to primary habitats or habitats in renaturation. The journal has the following aims: to highlight the traditions of Indigenous or local people that do not deconstruct nor dismantle primary habitats, integral protected areas, and the places and people symbolizing ecological ethics or (wild) nature protection and restoration; to study the interactions involving species considered non-native with a broad perspective, free from ideologies and negative biases, relying solely on a clear, scientific analysis of interactions and dynamics rather than on the presumed need for their a priori eradication; to study natural habitats, meaning primary habitats or those minimally shaped by human activities where spontaneous ecological dynamics prevail, including formerly used and now abandoned areas—even in agricultural or urban contexts—as well as sites undergoing rewilding or renaturation programs, adopting an objective approach free from ideological influences and without assuming the need for any a priori use or manipulation.

We aim to publish timely experimental and theoretical research results in a rapid and readily accessible manner. There is no restriction on the maximum length of the manuscripts. The full experimental details must be provided so that the results can be reproduced.

Scope

• Wild species and their habitats;
• Diseases and parasites in wild species;
• Wild environments and biodiversity;
• Natural environment management, wild land preservation;
• Dynamics, conflict analysis and policies of restoration and renaturalization processes;
• Management, conservation, characterization and dynamics of species in their natural habitats;
• Natural ecosystems and protected areas;
• Sustainable and ethical utilization of natural resources via hunting, fishing and other outdoor pursuits;
• Indigenous peoples and foraging;
• Primary habitat issues and old-growth forests;
• Human and wild nature heritage, relationships, perception and conflicts.

MDPI Publication Ethics Statement

MDPI is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). MDPI takes the responsibility to enforce a rigorous peer-review together with strict ethical policies and standards to ensure to add high quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification, inappropriate authorship credit, and the like, do arise. MDPI takes such publishing ethics issues very seriously and our editors are trained to proceed in such cases with a zero tolerance policy. To verify the originality of content submitted to our journals, we use iThenticate to check submissions against previous publications.

Book Reviews

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Copyright / Open Access

Articles published in Wild will be Open-Access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The copyright is retained by the author(s). MDPI will insert the following note at the end of the published text:

Reprints

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