Improved understanding of human-nature interactions is crucial to conservation science and
practice, but collecting relevant data remains challenging. Recently, social media have …

We conducted a scoping review to identify and describe trends in the use of social media
images as data sources to inform social science research in published articles from 2015 to …

Ongoing loss of biological diversity is primarily the result of unsustainable human behavior.
Thus, the long‐term success of biodiversity conservation depends on a thorough …

This is our ninth annual horizon scan to identify emerging issues that we believe could affect
global biological diversity, natural capital and ecosystem services, and conservation efforts …

The ongoing digital revolution in the age of big data is opening new research opportunities.
Culturomics and iEcology, two emerging research areas based on the analysis of online …

Understanding the activities and preferences of visitors is crucial for managing protected
areas and planning conservation strategies. Conservation culturomics promotes the use of …

Social media is an emerging source of data to address questions such as how do tourist
view and value destinations? This research compared image content and text from Flickr …

Social impact assessment (SIA) is well-established but uses conventional approaches that
have become less effective in recent decades, particularly in relation to declining survey …

Social media images are a novel source of data to assess how people view and value the
environment. Access to these images is often free, the volume and spread of images is …

Attention directed at different species by society and science is particularly relevant within
the field of conservation, as societal preferences will strongly impact support for …