In a recent opinion piece published in the journal Nature, several ecologists question recent efforts to delineate areas of wilderness and intactness around the world to define conservation targets.
Aim: Human-induced climate change requires conservation strategies incorporating its potential effects on species and communities. Key components of population persistence can be attributed to ...
Across farm country, new environmental stewardship commitments are sprouting from the soil like freshly emerged corn plants. Yet unlike uniform rows, those goals often seem variable and aimed at a ...
Scientific determinations of 25 global "hotspots"--habitats with high concentrations of unique species vulnerable to human activity--are too large to be effectively managed by local ...
The Biden administration’s report on its goal of conserving 30 percent of lands and waters leaves several unanswered questions, including how conservation will be defined and how it specifically plans ...
Grasping what someone means when they utter word "conservation" is as tasking (and slippery) as squeezing a watermelon seed. Does it mean protecting existing resources, be they wildlife, energy, ...
This study of the Tapajos Basin brings together a series of analyses undertaken by WWF and its partner organizations designed to define conservation scenarios and indicators on the basis of ...