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- Half Earth: promises, pitfalls, and prospects of dedicating Half of Earth’s land to conservation
- Highlights: Half Earth’s prosocial environmental messaging could expand societal engagement in conservation. Half Earth is the largest land reallocation and governance proposal in history
- Scientists propose rethinking ‘endangered species’ definition to save slow-breeding giants
- Conservation decisions based on population counts may fail to protect large, slow-breeding animals from irrevocable decline, according to new research.
- The return of the wolves
- Researchers examine global strategies for dealing with predators.
- Producing food whilst preserving biodiversity
- In nature conservation and agriculture, there are two opposing views of how to combine high biodiversity and sustainable food production: nature conservation should either be integrated into agricultural land, or segregated into protected areas in order to enable maximum yields in the food production…
- Widespread shortfalls in protected area resourcing undermine efforts to conserve biodiversity – Coad – – Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
- Biodiversity is in steep decline (Tittensor et al. 2014), with monitored vertebrate populations decreasing by almost 60% on average over the past 40 years (WWF International 2016). Protected areas (PAs) are a major tool in efforts to mitigate this crisis (Watson et al. 2014), and…
- Reintroducing rewilding to restoration – Rejecting the search for novelty
- Source: Nature
- Other nations could learn from China’s red-line initiative to preserve nature, biodiversity and ecosystem services in the country, says Jixi Gao.
- Mainstreaming indigenous and local communities’ connections with nature for policy decision-making
- Source: Conservation Biology
- Authors: Volenec, Z.M. and Dobson, A.P.
- Abstract: The importance of large reserves has been long maintained in the scientific literature, often leading to dismissal of the conservation potential of small reserves. However, over half the global protected‐area inventory is composed of protected areas that are <100 ha, and the median size…
- Local support for conservation is associated with perceptions of good governance, social impacts, and ecological effectiveness
- Source: Biological Conservation
- Author(s): Penelope R. Whitehorn, Laetitia M. Navarro, Matthias Schröter, Miguel Fernandez, Xavier Rotllan-Puig, Alexandra Marques
- Abstract: Biodiversity is suffering dramatic declines across the globe, threatening the ability of ecosystems…
- Designing the landscape of coexistence: Integrating risk avoidance, habitat selection and functional connectivity to inform large carnivore conservation
- Source: Biological Conservation
- Authors: Helena Rio-Maior, Mónia Nakamura, Francisco Álvares, Pedro Beja
- Abstract: Large carnivores often inhabit human-dominated landscapes, where avoidance of anthropogenic risks can constrain their use of space and time. Large carnivore…
- Cost-effective protection of biodiversity in the western Amazon
- Source: Biological Conservation
- Authors: Janeth Lessmann, Javier Fajardo, Elisa Bonaccorso, Aaron Bruner
- Abstract: The western Amazon needs to expand its protected-area system to ensure the conservation of its immense and threatened biodiversity.
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