Our long shadow: humanity places ‘intense’ pressure on 17,500 species of land vertebrates
A new study looking into the impact of human activities on wildlife reports that a staggering number of terrestrial vertebrate species...
Cost-effective conservation: Study identifies key ‘umbrella’ species
A new study has found that incorporating threats, actions and costs into the selection of priority species for conservation can markedly...
New ‘umbrella’ species would massively improve conservation
The protection of Australia’s threatened species could be improved by a factor of seven, if more efficient ‘umbrella’ species were...
Use of surrogate species to cost‐effectively prioritize conservation actions
Conservation efforts often focus on umbrella species whose distributions overlap with many other flora and fauna. However, because...