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Recent publications:

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Bennett N, .... Leeney RH, ...... Sumaila UR (2026 - in press) A call to action to support and safeguard ocean defenders. npj Ocean Sustainability. 

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​MacIntosh A, Gray C, Philips ND, Leeney RH, Griffin DC, Lynam C, Bortoluzzi JR, De Loose E, Vinu-Srivatsan S, Massett N, Berrow S, Whooley P, Johnston EM (2026) Basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus) sightings data over fifty years and space use patterns in Ireland. Endangered Species Research 60: esr01515.

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Van Compernolle M, …. Leeney RH, ….. Sequeira A. (2025) Vulnerability of marine megafauna to global at-sea anthropogenic threats. Conservation Biology e70147.

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Leeney RH, Bagarinao-Ragalado A, Verdote M, Drury Salgado C (2024) A rapid assessment of the status of sawfishes in the Philippines. Endangered Species Research 53: 97-113.

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Leeney RH, Dreyer N (2024) Predation on St. Josephs Callorhinchus capensis by African fur seals Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus in Namibia. African Journal of Marine Science 46 (2): 1-6.

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Cabanillas Torpoco M, Forsberg K, Rosas-Luis R, Bustamente MG, Portocarrero CGA, Stefany Hernando Blotte A, Panizo G, Leeney RH (2023) Status of the Largetooth Sawfish in Ecuador and Peru, and use of rostral teeth in cockfighting. Endangered Species Research 52: 247-264.

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Leeney RH, Raveloson H, Antion P, Mohan V (2022) A conservation organisation’s approach to COVID-19: Lessons learned from Madagascar. Jàmbá 14: a1285.

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Yan HF, Kyne PM, Jabado RW, Leeney RH, Davidson LNK, Derrick DH, Finucci B, Freckleton RP, Fordham SV, Dulvy NK (2021) Overfishing and habitat loss drives range contraction of iconic marine fishes to near extinction. Science Advances 7 (7): eabb6026

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Weigmann S, Gon O, Leeney RH, Barrowclift E, Berggren P, Jiddawi N, Temple AJ (2020) Revision of the sixgill sawsharks, genus Pliotrema (Chondrichthyes, Pristiophoriformes), with descriptions of two new species and a redescription of P. warreni Regan. PLoS ONE 15(3): e0228791.

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Haque AB, Leeney RH, Biswas AR (2020) Publish, then perish? Five years on, sawfishes are still at risk in Bangladesh. Aquatic Conservation: Marine & Freshwater Ecosystems 30: 2370-2383.

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Leeney RH, Dulvy NK, Mana R (2018) Fishers’ ecological knowledge of sawfishes in the Sepik and Ramu rivers, northern Papua New Guinea. Endangered Species Research 36: 15-26.

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Leeney RH (2017) Are sawfishes still present in Mozambique? A baseline ecological study. Peer J 5: e2950.

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Leeney RH, Weir CR, Campredon P, Regalla A, Foster J (2015) Occurrence of Atlantic humpback (Sousa teuszii) and bottlenose (Tursiops truncatus) dolphins in the coastal waters of Guinea-Bissau, with an updated cetacean species checklist. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 96: 933-941.