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- Sixty years of tracking conservation progress using the World Database on Protected Areas
- Source: Nature Ecology & Evolution
- Author(s): Heather C. Bingham, Diego Juffe Bignoli, Edward Lewis et al.
- Abstract: The world’s protected area network is constantly changing, and the dynamics of this network are tracked using the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA). This database evolved from a list of protected areas first mandated by the United Nations in 1959, and it now informs the key indicators that track progress toward area-based conservation targets.
- Voluntary, permanent land protection reduces forest loss and development in a rural‐urban landscape
- Abstract: Voluntary, permanent land protection is a key conservation process in many countries. Concerns with the effectiveness of such decentralized processes exist due to the potential for (1) selection bias, that is, the protection of parcels whose land cover would have been conserved in the absence…
- Role of Narratives in Driving Conservation Science
- “People are natural storytellers. They love to tell stories, and they love to hear them,” writes Robert A. Voeks in his new book The Ethnobotany of Eden. And, as the reader learns, scientists are no different. Scientists also like stories and to contribute to stories because stories are among the best-suited tools to deliver scientific findings to the general public. And the “jungle medicine narrative”—the main topic of the book—is one of the most well‐known stories about tropical rainforests.
- Untapped potential of collective intelligence in conservation and environmental decision making
- Abstract: Environmental decisions are often deferred to groups of experts, committees, or panels to develop climate policy, plan protected areas, or negotiate trade‐offs for biodiversity conservation. There is, however, surprisingly little empirical research on the performance of group decision making…
- Mainstreaming human and large carnivore coexistence through institutional collaboration
- Abstract: Achieving human‐large carnivore coexistence in Human Dominated Landscapes (HDL) is a key challenge for societies globally. This challenge cannot be adequately met with the current sectoral approaches of HDL governance and an academic sector largely dominated by disciplinary silos.
- The fate of Amazonia
- A fifty-year observational record of Central Amazon forest reveals the multifaceted nature of tree death and concerning signs of vulnerability to increasing heat.
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