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A decision tree for assessing the risks and benefits of publishing biodiversity data

Inadequate information on the geographical distribution of biodiversity hampers decision-making for conservation. Major efforts are...

Bold nature retention targets are essential for the global environment agenda

Ambitious targets for the retention — not just formal protection — of nature are urgently needed to conserve biodiversity and to maintain...

Reach and messages of the world's largest ivory burn

Recent increases in ivory poaching have depressed African elephant populations. Successful enforcement has led to ivory stockpiling....

Persistence of methodological, taxonomical, and geographical bias in assessments of species' vul

Species' vulnerability to climate change has become a well-researched field in recent years: between 2000 and 2016, at least 743 articles...

The essential role of other effective area-based conservation measures in achieving big bold conserv

Continued biodiversity loss has prompted calls for half of the planet to be set aside for nature – including E. O Wilson's “Half-Earth”...

A spatial overview of the global importance of Indigenous lands for conservation

Understanding the scale, location and nature conservation values of the lands over which Indigenous Peoples exercise traditional rights...

Roles for scientific societies to engage with conservation policy.

Science and decision making can influence one another at several stages in the policy process. Scientists raise new issues for policy...

A global mitigation hierarchy for nature conservation

Efforts to conserve biodiversity comprise a patchwork of international goals, national-level plans, and local interventions that,...

Predicting the impact of logging activities on soil erosion and water quality in steep, forested tro

Increasing development in tropical regions provides new economic opportunities that can improve livelihoods, but it threatens the...

Leopards provide public health benefits in Mumbai, India

Populations of large carnivores are often suppressed in human‐dominated landscapes because they can kill or injure people and domestic...

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'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