Area-based conservation is essential to safeguard nature's diversity. In view of expanding
human land use, increasing climate change and unmet conservation targets, area-based …

The conservation community is increasingly focusing on the monitoring and evaluation of
management, governance, ecological, and social considerations as part of a broader move …

Indigenous and local knowledge systems as well as practitioners' knowledge can provide
valid and useful knowledge to enhance our understanding of governance of biodiversity and …

Marine protected areas (MPAs) are increasingly being used globally to conserve marine
resources. However, whether many MPAs are being effectively and equitably managed, and …

The forest restoration challenge (globally 2 billion ha) and the prospect of changing climate
with increasing frequency of extreme events argues for approaching restoration from a …

One of the basic purposes of protected areas and other effective area-based conservation
interventions is to achieve conservation impact, the sum of avoided biodiversity loss and …

There is growing interest in assessing the effects of changing environmental conditions and
management actions on human wellbeing. A challenge is to translate social science …

Rewilding, here defined as “the reorganisation of biota and ecosystem processes to set an
identified social–ecological system on a preferred trajectory, leading to the self‐sustaining …

Protected area coverage has reached over 15% of the global land area. However, the
quality of management of the vast majority of reserves remains unknown, and many are …

Continued overexploitation of natural resources and the associated impacts of climate
change threaten the sustainability and biodiversity of our global social-ecological …