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- How feasible are global forest restoration commitments?
- Source: Conservation Letters
- Author(s): Matthew E. Fagan, J. Leighton Reid, Margaret B. Holland, Justin G. Drew, Rakan A. Zahawi
- Numerous countries have made voluntary commitments to conduct forest landscape restoration over millions of hectares of degraded land in the coming decade. We consider the relative likelihood these countries will achieve their restoration commitments. Across countries, the area committed to…
- Global vulnerability of marine mammals to global warming
- Source: Scientific Reports
- Author(s): Camille Albouy et al
- Although extinctions due to climate change are still uncommon, they might surpass those caused by habitat loss or overexploitation over the next few decades.
- Mobile protected areas needed to protect biodiversity in the high seas
- Source: Science
- Author(s): Sara M. Maxwell, Kristina M. Gjerde, Melinda G. Conners, Larry B. Crowder
- As the United Nations rewrites the laws of the high seas, the new document should anticipate emerging technologies that allow protected areas to move as animals migrate or adapt to climate change.
- Human ancestors started biodiversity decline millions of years ago
- Source: Ecology Letters
- Author(s): Søren Faurby, Daniele Silvestro, Lars Werdelin, Alexandre Antonelli
- The human-caused biodiversity decline started much earlier than researchers used to believe. According to a new study the process was not started by our own species but by some of our ancestors.
- Transformational innovation needed to reach global forest restoration goals
- Source: Conservation Letters
- Author(s): Matthew E. Fagan et al
- New research finds that global South countries have pledged the largest areas of land to forest restoration, and are also farthest behind in meeting their targets due to challenging factors such as population growth, corruption, and deforestation.
- Climate may play a bigger role than deforestation in rainforest biodiversity
- Source: Biotropica
- Author(s): Noe U. de la Sancha, Renan Maestri, Ricardo S. Bovendorp, Christopher L. Higgins
- In a study on small mammal biodiversity in the Atlantic Forest, researchers found that climate may affect biodiversity in rainforests even more than deforestation does.
- What is an endangered species?: judgments about acceptable risk
- Source: Environmental Research Letters
- Author(s): Tom Offer-Westort, Adam Feltz, Jeremy T Bruskotter, John A Vucetich
- Judgments about acceptable risk in the context of policy may be influenced by law makers, policy makers, experts and the general public.
- Local communities’ perceptions about the impact of protected areas on livelihoods and community development
- Source: Global Ecology and Conservation
- Author(s): Haruna Abukari, Raphael Benedict Mwalyosi
- Perceptions provide an important means of assessing the performance of conservation projects so that better policies may be developed for effective biodiversity protection…
- A systematic review of methods for studying the impacts of outdoor recreation on terrestrial wildlife
- Source: Global Ecology and Conservation
- Author(s): Solène Marion et al
- Outdoor recreation is a known source of disturbance to many wildlife populations. We systematically reviewed 126 relevant…
- Identifying global hotspots of avian trailing-edge population diversity
- Source: Global Ecology and Conservation
- Author(s): Samuel A. Merker, Richard B. Chandler
- Climate change is causing the ranges of many species to shift poleward and to higher elevations. Trailing-edge populations near the low-latitude edge of a shifting range…
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