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- Mega mining project in French Guiana threatens Amazonian biodiversity
- Source: Nature
- Author: François M. Catzeflis
- Abstract: Citizens of French Guiana in the Amazon rainforest are debating whether the territory should host a huge gold-mining project. A decision from Paris is expected imminently. France’s President Emmanuel Macron has declared that such projects will be allowed only if they are exemplary in terms of their environmental and economic ramifications. In our view, this project fails on both counts as currently proposed.
- Is large good enough? Evaluating and improving representation of ecoregions and habitat types in the European Union’s protected area network Natura 2000
- Source: Biological Conservation
Author: Anke Müller, Uwe A. Schneider, Kerstin Jantke
Abstract: Natura 2000, the largest protected area network worldwide, covers 18.2% of the European Union’s terrestrial area. Thereby, the network surpasses the goal of the Convention on Biological Diversity’s Aichi target 11 to protect 17% of the land area by 2020. However, Aichi target 11 also calls for protected area networks to be ecologically representative.
- Source: Biological Conservation
- Preparing ocean governance for species on the move
- Source: Science
- Author(s): Malin L. Pinsky et al.
- Abstract: The ocean is a critical source of nutrition for billions of people, with potential to yield further food, profits, and employment in the future (1). But fisheries face a serious new challenge as climate change drives the ocean to conditions not experienced historically.
- Predicting global killer whale population collapse from PCB pollution
- Source: Science
- Author(s): Jean-Pierre Desforges
- Abstract: A new study shows that more than 40 years after the first initiatives were taken to ban the use of PCBs, the chemical pollutants remain a deadly threat to animals at the top of the food chain
- Large-scale coral reef rehabilitation after blast fishing in Indonesia
- Source: Restoration Ecology
- Author(s): Susan L. Williams et al.
- Abstract: The severely degraded condition of many coral reefs worldwide calls for active interventions to rehabilitate their physical and biological structure and function, in addition to effective management of fisheries and no‐take reserves.
- Off-the-shelf GPS technology to inform marine protected areas for marine turtles
- Source: Biological Conservation
- Author(s): Robin T. E. Snape et al.
- Abstract: The financial expense of tracking solutions often impedes effective characterisation of habitat use in threatened marine megavertebrates. Yet some of these taxa predictably aggregate at coastal breeding sites, providing conservation opportunities. Toward a low-cost solution for tracking marine…
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