Many conservation plans remain unimplemented, in part because of insufficient
consideration of the social processes that influence conservation decisions. Complementing …

The continued growth of human populations and of per capita consumption have resulted in
unsustainable exploitation of Earth's biological diversity, exacerbated by climate change …

Although habitat fragmentation is often assumed to be a primary driver of extinction, global
patterns of fragmentation and its relationship to extinction risk have not been consistently …

Governments have committed to conserving≥ 17% of terrestrial and≥ 10% of marine
environments globally, especially “areas of particular importance for biodiversity” through …

Gaps in digital accessible information (DAI) on species distributions hamper prospects of
safeguarding biodiversity and ecosystem services, and addressing central ecological and …

Over the last decade, sustainability science has been at the leading edge of widespread
efforts from the social and natural sciences to produce use-inspired research. Yet, how …

Conservation professionals need to know what has worked and what has not when
designing, implementing, evaluating and refining conservation projects. Project failure …

Recent scholarship in conservation biology has pointed to the existence of a “research‐
implementation” gap and has proposed various solutions for overcoming it. Some of these …

Although mammalian carnivores are vulnerable to habitat fragmentation and require
landscape connectivity, their global patterns of fragmentation and connectivity have not …

Conservation strategies based on charismatic flagship species, such as tigers, lions, and
elephants, successfully attract funding from individuals and corporate donors. However …