Originally conceived to conserve iconic landscapes and wildlife, protected areas are now
expected to achieve an increasingly diverse set of conservation, social and economic …

Despite the massive efforts that have been made to conserve plant diversity across the world
during the past few decades, it is becoming increasingly evident that our current strategies …

Understanding historic patterns of land use and land cover change across large temporal
and spatial scales is critical for developing effective biodiversity conservation management …

Forests are under increasing pressure globally and the establishment of protected areas has
long been used as a conservation tool to preserve them. Seven categories of protected …

Protected areas (PAs) have been established to conserve tropical forests, but their
effectiveness at reducing deforestation is uncertain. To explore this issue, we combined high …

Natural ecosystems globally have been disrupted by anthropogenic activities, and the
current biodiversity extinction rate exceeds the natural extinction rate by 1,000-fold …

Protected areas are the cornerstone of in situ conservation and their effective management
is critical for maintaining biodiversity in the long term. In East Africa (Burundi, Kenya …

The tropics contain a vast majority of species, yet our understanding of tropical biodiversity is
limited. Here we combine species locality data from scientific databases and social media to …

Abstract Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicator 15.1. 1 proposes to quantify “Forest
area as a proportion of total land area” in order to achieve SDG target 15.1. While area …

Roads are proliferating worldwide at an unprecedented rate, with potentially severe impacts
on wildlife. We calculated the extent and potential impacts of road networks across the …