February - 2016

Landscape Species

Since conservation practitioners do not have enough funds to conserve all places and all species, they must prioritise where to put their...

Oil exploration in Murchison Falls National Park

Murchison Falls National Park is one of Uganda’s Flagship conservation areas. Sitting between the Albert and Victoria Niles, it holds...

Human-lion conflict in a drought-stricken landscape

The South Rift Association of Landowners (SORALO) community conservation program in Olkirimatian Group Ranch aims to simultaneously...

Marine Conservation in Mombasa

I recently spent two weeks in Mombasa, Kenya with Dr. Tim McClanahan, director of the Wildlife Conservation Society coral reefs program...

Sustainability: root targets in consensus

Sean Maxwell, James Watson and Jonathan Rhodes recently teamed up with colleagues from Imperial College London, Bangor University,...

Performance and potential of protected areas

Watson, J.E.M., Dudley, N., Segan, D.B. and M. Hockings (2014). The performance and potential of protected areas. Nature, 515: 19-25....

Global mismatch between greenhouse gas emissions and the burden of climate change

Althor, G., Watson, J.E.M. and R. A. Fuller (2016). Global mismatch between greenhouse gas emissions and the burden of climate change....

'We may not survive' - UN issues dire warning over climate change

Fire regimes are changing in both Australia and Brazil

Ambitious and holistic goals key to saving Earth’s biodiversity, study says

How Australia Can Rise From The Ashes

Change in terrestrial human footprint drives continued loss of intact ecosystems

Minimising the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services in an intact landscape under risk of.....

World’s protected areas lack connections, recent study finds

Study finds a Mexico-sized swath of intact land lost to human pressure

Planetary ‘safety net’ could halt wildlife loss and slow climate breakdown

Isolation of protected areas a major blind spot in habitat conservation