Biodiversity worldwide has been declining rapidly in recent decades. Acquiring land for
protection has been used as a main strategy to halt this decline. Conservation organizations …

Finding ways to increase financial support is critical to conservation efforts. We used
conservation fundraising data, unprecedented in their resolution, to reveal spatial patterns in …

Caught between ongoing habitat destruction and funding shortfalls, conservation
organizations are using systematic planning approaches to identify places that offer the …

While numerous scientific publications have used biological data and sometimes decision
theory to identify where conservation funds should be invested, studies that examine where …

Private donors are often willing to give more to support conservation activities, like protecting
land, when these take place nearby. However, population centers in which most donors live …

Financial incentives may aid in conservation if they broaden the numbers and types of
landowners who engage in protection and conservation management on private land. We …

Payments to private landholders for providing biodiversity land can improve conservation
outside protected areas. Input‐based payments are widely used despite evidence they are …

With the growing recognition of the role of environmental services rendered by private lands,
landowner involvement has become a critical component of landscape-level strategies to …

In negotiations over land‐right acquisitions, landowners have an informational advantage
over conservation groups because they know more about the opportunity costs of …

An increasing amount of investment has been devoted to protecting and restoring
ecosystem services worldwide. The efficiency of conservation investments, including …