The COVID-19 pandemic is impacting all parts of human society. Like everyone else, conservation biologists are concerned first with how the pandemic will affect their families, friends, and people around the world. But we also have a duty to think about how it will impact the world's biodiversity and our ability to protect it, as well as how it might affect the training and careers of conservation researchers and practitioners.
These guidelines focus on the often complex links between biodiversity and sport, and highlight that sports events can also benefit biodiversity.
The GEF-7 Inclusive Conservation Initiative (ICI) aims to support indigenous peoples and local communities (IPLCs) in their continuing efforts to safeguard Earth’s natural ecosystems, recognizing the historical roles they have played in nature conservation.
Microsoft Corp. today outlined a new initiative that it says will advance the protection and preservation of biodiversity and ecosystems around the world.
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.
This month the tiny Pacific island of Niue became the world’s first “dark sky nation.
The unique biodiversity of the world’s oldest island, including its 110 lemur species, remains as imperiled as ever. Though the country has tripled the terrestrial area under protection since 2003, the quality of the protection is inadequate.
The MICS is seeking a self-driven, accountable, creative problem solver to serve as Executive Director.
Tiritiri Matangi is one of the jewels of New Zealand’s Hauraki Gulf. For the past 35 years the island, which is within sight of Auckland’s skyscrapers, has been a protected nature reserve.
Extinction risk could be cut by more than 50% if 30% of land and oceans are conserved, according to a report published in the journal Ecology. Between 1990 and 2016, the world has lost over 500,