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- Understanding hope and what it means for the future of conservation
- Source: Biological Conservation
- Author(s): Andrew Park, Elizabeth Williams, Melanie Zurba
- Academic papers and media commentaries frequently appeal to hope as a necessary bulwark against despair for the conservation community. Such claims are often made in the absence of a rigorous discussion of the nature of hope.
- Global opportunities and challenges for transboundary conservation
- Source: Nature Ecology and Evolution
- Author(s): Natalie Mason, Michelle Ward, James E. M. Watson, Oscar Venter, Rebecca K. Runting
- Rapid biodiversity loss has prompted global action to prevent further declines, yet coordinated conservation action among nations remains elusive.
- Essential Indicators for Measuring Area-Based Conservation Effectiveness in the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
- Source: Preprints
- Author(s): J Geldmann et al
- Here we provide a review of how ‘protected area’ effectiveness was addressed in the 2011-2020 plan and based on this, provide recommendations for fit-for-purpose indicators that will measure how such efforts contribute to the conservation of biodiversity…
- The global costs and benefits of expanding Marine Protected Areas
- Source: Marine Policy
- Author(s): Luke M. Brander et al
- Marine ecosystems and the services they provide contribute greatly to human well-being but are becoming degraded in many areas around the world…
- Methods for prioritizing protected areas using individual and aggregate rankings
- Source: Environmental Conservation
- Author(s): Fabio Carvalho et al
- Despite their legal protection status, protected areas (PAs) can benefit from priority ranks when ongoing threats to their biodiversity and habitats outpace the financial resources available for their conservation…
- Role of habitat definition on Aichi Target 11: Examples from New Caledonian coral reefs
- Source: Marine Policy
- Author(s): Emma Gairin and Serge Andréfouëta
- The Aichi 2020 Biodiversity Targets are the backbone of many conservation projects. As the 2020 deadline is approaching, countries assess their progress…
- Rethinking marine conservation strategies to minimize socio-economic costs in a dynamic perspective
- Source: Biological Conservation
- Author(s): Yunzhou Li, Ming Sun, Keith S. Evans, Yiping Ren, Yong Chen
- How to minimize socio-economic costs placed on local fishing communities by marine reserves is a widespread concern in the global conservation planning practices. One prevailing solution is to generate…
- Conservation basic income: A non-market mechanism to support convivial conservation
- Source: Biological Conservation
- Author(s): Robert Fletcher, Bram Büscher
- This article advances a proposal for conservation basic income (CBI) as a novel strategy for funding biodiversity conservation that moves beyond widely promoted market-based instruments (MBIs). This CBI proposal responds to two important empirical developments.
- The uptake of the biosphere integrity planetary boundary concept into national and international environmental policy
- Source: Global Ecology and Conservation
- Author(s): Isabelle Hurley, Derek P. Tittensor
- The biosphere integrity planetary boundary was, at least partly, developed to aid policymakers in addressing the dangerous decline of Earth’s biodiversity. However, just over a decade since its origination the extent and speed of its adoption as a policy tool remains unclear.
- Wetland ecosystem services research: A critical review
- Source: Global Ecology and Conservation
- Author(s): Xibao Xu, Minkun Chen, Guishan Yang, Bo Jiang, Ji Zhang
- Systematic knowledge of the development, trends, and limitations of wetland ecosystem services (WES) is extremely meaningful for the direction of WES studies and wetland management. A systematic literature review was conducted by collecting 1711 peer-reviewed articles through…
- Climatic and edaphic controls over tropical forest diversity and vegetation carbon storage
- Source: Nature Scientific Reports
- Author(s): Florian Hofhansl
- Tropical rainforests harbor exceptionally high biodiversity and store large amounts of carbon in vegetation biomass. However, regional variation in plant species richness and vegetation carbon stock can be substantial, and may be related to the heterogeneity of topoedaphic properties.
- Wading through the swamp: what does tropical peatland restoration mean to national level stakeholders in Indonesia?
- Source: Restoration Ecology
- Author(s): C. Ward et al.
- New research has found that local community involvement is crucial to restoring Indonesia’s peatlands — unspoilt peatlands act as a carbon sink and play an important role in reducing global carbon emissions. They are also a crucial habitat for birds and animals, including endangered species such as…
- A farmland biodiversity strategy is needed for China
- Source: Nature Ecology and Evolution
- Author(s): Li Li et al.
- Nationwide citizen science data show the importance of farmland outside protected areas for China’s avifauna. We urge the government of China to develop a national strategy for…
- Global conservation of species’ niches
- Source: Nature
- Author(s): Jeffrey O. Hanson
- Protected areas would need to expand to 33.8% of the total land surface to adequately represent environmental conditions across the habitats of amphibians, birds and terrestrial mammals, far exceeding the current 17% target.
- Forests: Carbon sequestration, biomass energy, or both?
- Source: Bioenergy
- Author(s): Alice Favero, Adam Daigneault, Brent Sohngen
- There is a continuing debate over the role that woody bioenergy plays in climate mitigation. This paper clarifies this controversy and illustrates the impacts of woody biomass demand on forest harvests, prices, timber management investments and intensity, forest area, and the resulting carbon balance…
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