- ACTO
Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization
- AIDS
acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
- AMH
anatomically modern humans
- ASEAN
Association of Southeast Asian Nations
- ASEANAPOL
ASEAN National Police Network
- ASEAN-WEN
ASEAN-Wildlife Enforcement Network
- AU
African Union
- BCE
before the common or current era
- BP
before present
- CAR
Central African Republic
- CBD
Convention on Biological Diversity
- CCAD
Central American Commission for the Environment and Development
- CECNA
Commission for Environmental Cooperation of North America
- CIR
change-in-ratio
- CITES
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora
- CJD
Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease
- CMS
Convention on Migratory Species, also known as the Bonn Convention
- COMIFAC
Commission on Forests of Central Africa
- CoV
coronavirus
- COVID-19
coronavirus disease of 2019
- CPHD
catch per hunter per day
- CPUE
catch per unit effort
- CR
critically endangered (red list category)
- DGI
Directorate-General for International Cooperation
- DI
defaunation index
- DRC
Democratic Republic of Congo
- DRI
dietary reference intake
- EBFM
ecosystem-based fisheries management
- EBM
ecosystem-based management
- ECOWAS
Economic Community of West African States
- EN
endangered (red list category)
- EU
European Union
- EVD
Ebola virus disease
- FAO
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- FCM
fuzzy-logic cognitive mapping
- GDI
index of game depletion
- GENuS
global expanded nutrient supply database
- GIZ
German Development Cooperation
- GSF
Guiana Shield Facility
- HBV
hepatitis B virus
- HCV
hepatitis C virus
- HEV
hepatitis E virus
- HF
human footprint
- HIV
human immunodeficiency virus
- HTLV
human T-lymphotropic virus
- ICCWC
International Consortium on Combating Wildlife Crime
- IEA
integrated ecosystem assessment
- IF
intact forest
- IUCN
International Union for Conservation of Nature
- LDG
latitudinal diversity gradient
- LFI
large fish indicator
- LPI
living planet index
- MARV
Marburg virus
- MBMI
mean body mass indicator
- MERS
Middle East respiratory syndrome
- MEY
maximum economic yield
- MHR
maximum sustainable harvest rate
- MSY
maximum sustainable yield
- MVT
marginal value theorem
- NAFTA
North American Free Trade Agreement
- NCT
niche construction theory
- NOAA
United States’ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- NPE
Brazil’s federal monitoring agency
- NPP
net primary productivity
- NTFP
non-timber forest product
- OFT
optimal foraging theory
- OIE
World Animal Health Organization
- OPI
offtake pressure indicator
- PBR
potential biological removal index
- PRA
Amazon Regional Program
- PVA
population viability analysis
- SADC
Southern African Development Community
- SARS
severe acute respiratory syndrome
- SAWEN
South Asian Wildlife Enforcement Network
- SBSTTA
Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice to the Convention on Biological Diversity
- SFV
simian foamy virus
- SIV
simian immunodeficiency virus
- TB
bovine tuberculosis
- TCA
Treaty for Amazonian Cooperation
- UNEP
United Nations Environment Programme
- UNU
United Nations University
- USAN
Union of South American Nations
- VU
vulnerable (red list category)
- WCS
Wildlife Conservation Society
- WHO
World Health Organization of the United Nations