Sixty years of tracking conservation progress using the World Database on Protected Areas

HC Bingham, D Juffe Bignoli, E Lewis… - Nature ecology & …, 2019 - nature.com
The world's protected area network is constantly changing, and the dynamics of this network
are tracked using the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA). This database evolved …

The rise of novelty in ecosystems

VC Radeloff, JW Williams, BL Bateman… - Ecological …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Rapid and ongoing change creates novelty in ecosystems everywhere, both when
comparing contemporary systems to their historical baselines, and predicted future systems …

Forest loss in protected areas and intact forest landscapes: a global analysis

M Heino, M Kummu, M Makkonen, M Mulligan… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
In spite of the high importance of forests, global forest loss has remained alarmingly high
during the last decades. Forest loss at a global scale has been unveiled with increasingly …

Conservation and conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo: The impacts of warfare, mining, and protected areas on deforestation

V Butsic, M Baumann, A Shortland, S Walker… - Biological …, 2015 - Elsevier
Tropical forests provide critical ecosystem services worldwide. Nonetheless, ongoing
agricultural expansion, timber extraction, and mining continue to jeopardize important forest …

Weighing the benefits of expanding protected areas versus managing existing ones

VM Adams, GD Iacona, HP Possingham - Nature Sustainability, 2019 - nature.com
Protected areas are a fundamental mechanism for conserving global biodiversity. Given
limited conservation funds and shortfalls in funding for existing protected area management …

Global trends in geospatial conservation planning: a review of priorities and missing dimensions

G Cobb, J Nalau, ALM Chauvenet - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Biodiversity underpins resilient ecosystems that sustain life. Despite
international conservation efforts, biodiversity is still declining due to ongoing anthropogenic …

When conservation goes viral: The diffusion of innovative biodiversity conservation policies and practices

MB Mascia, M Mills - Conservation Letters, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Despite billions of dollars invested,“getting to scale” remains a fundamental challenge for
conservation donors and practitioners. Occasionally, however, a conservation intervention …

Multiple-use protected areas are critical to equitable and effective conservation

VM Adams, ALM Chauvenet, N Stoudmann… - One Earth, 2023 - cell.com
Protected areas are widely used to stem biodiversity loss, with global conservation policy
mandating their use in meeting area-based conservation targets, such as the recent target to …

Winners and losers of national and global efforts to reconcile agricultural intensification and biodiversity conservation

L Egli, C Meyer, C Scherber, H Kreft… - Global Change …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Closing yield gaps within existing croplands, and thereby avoiding further habitat
conversions, is a prominently and controversially discussed strategy to meet the rising …

A robust, systematic approach for developing the biodiversity sector's input for multi-sector Marine Spatial Planning

LR Harris, SD Holness, SP Kirkman, KJ Sink… - Ocean & Coastal …, 2022 - Elsevier
As countries commit to developing their ocean-based economies sustainably, it is critical to
secure the underlying marine biodiversity and ecological processes. Ecosystem-based …