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In the case of Oryx, if a practitioner or researcher interested in the costs of coexistence with elephants wishes to read the lead article in the people and wildlife section in this issue of Oryx (Saif et al , 2020), or a scholar of early thinking on conservation in Africa wishes to read Worthington\'s (1950) article on the future of the African fauna in Volume 1, they would require access through an institutional library or as a member of Fauna & Flora International, or via Research4Life (the latter provides developing countries with free or low-cost access to peer-reviewed Journals) [ ]the material published will be freely available to read online for everybody with a suitable internet connection, no matter where they live or work, thus removing inequities of access [ ]to help support this, there will be an article processing charge, which is usually paid by the authors\' institutions or funders In these turbulent times, with the increasing importance of biodiversity conservation thrown into relief by the spill-over of the COVID-19 virus from natural hosts to people, with future spill-overs expected as deforestation and wildlife trade bring more wild species into contact with people and livestock, and with daily assaults on truth in science and other fields of endeavour, the peer-reviewed scientific literature has never been more vital
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