The current volume, New Insights and Perspectives on Conservation Biology is the fruit of several years of painstaking hard work and experience on the field in several countries across the continent of North America over the past decade or so. Environmental conservation and ecological restoration of natural ecosystems

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I have been actively involved in several local, regional and international conservation projects as a volunteer field worker and as an activist. Over the years, I got more and more involved with various aspects of conservation biology that helped me focus on my future research directions which has been a crisscrossing of paths of three disciplines life sciences, agricultural sciences and environmental sciences.

It is important for us to note that conventional approaches towards conservation biology around the globe have undergone massive evolutions, transitions as well as advanced modifications. As field biologists we realized that simple approaches like conventional conservation biology does not always work efficiently enough to solve critical conservation issues.

, It is important to also look for viable alternatives in terms of non-conventional approaches towards achieving successful wildlife conservation. A modern practitioner of conservation biology is thus a highly advanced multi-disciplinary researcher who often needs to collaborate with experts from other related or unrelated disciplines or apply technologies unknown by exchanging of ideas.

Therefore, these collections of essays on various facets of modern and applied conservation biology will help readers in understanding and appreciating new dimensions as well the paradigm shift in conservation biology approaches, strategies and practices that has evolved over the past two decades. The language of these essays had been kept as non-technical as possible to reach our beyond academia to common citizens who to my mind are a much bigger stakeholder than the handful experts working in the field of conservation biology.