Change in terrestrial human footprint drives continued loss of intact ecosystems
Our ability to map humanity’s influence across Earth has evolved, thanks to powerful computing, a network of earth observing satellites,...
Minimising the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services in an intact landscape under risk of.....
Minimising the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services in an intact landscape under risk of rapid agricultural development...
Bending the curve of terrestrial biodiversity needs an integrated strategy
Increased efforts are required to prevent further losses to terrestrial biodiversity and the ecosystem services that it provides1,2....
Living Planet Report 2020
The findings of The Living Planet Report 2020 are clear. Our relationship with nature is broken. Biodiversity - the rich diversity of...
Impact of 2019–2020 mega-fires on Australian fauna habitat
Australia’s 2019–2020 mega-fires were exacerbated by drought, anthropogenic climate change and existing land-use management. Here, using...
Recent Australian wildfires made worse by logging and associated forest management
The recent fires in southern Australia were unprecedented in scale and severity. Much commentary has rightly focused on the role of...
Renewable energy production will exacerbate mining threats to biodiversity
Renewable energy production is necessary to halt climate change and reverse associated biodiversity losses. However, generating the...
Best-practice biodiversity safeguards for Belt and Road Initiative’s financiers
With thousands of projects being built along eight transcontinental corridors, China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is driving the...
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...
Lots of loss with little scrutiny: The attrition of habitat critical for threatened species in Austr
(Photo by Briano, WWF Australia) Australia has one of the worst extinction rates of any nation, yet there has been little assessment of...