Strategies to protect biodiversity in the face of a global crisis must be place‐based and
sensitive to context. A failure to consider the socioeconomic and political circumstances, as …

Over the past 3 decades, indigenous guardian programs (also known as indigenous rangers
or watchmen) have emerged as an institution for indigenous governments to engage in …

Abstract The Convention on Biological Diversity is defining the goals that will frame future
global biodiversity policy in a context of rapid biodiversity decline and under pressure to …

Substantial increases in the pace, scale, and effectiveness of conservation will be required
to abate the ongoing loss of global biodiversity and simultaneous ecological degradation …

We analyze how governments and the international community expand protected areas
(PAs) to reduce biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation at a cost to indigenous peoples …

Nature-based solutions (NbS) to climate change mitigation—such as ecosystem protection
or conservation, improved forest management practices, as well as afforestation—can …

This discussion paper explores the relationship between biodiversity and the circular
economy and the potential implications of this relationship. The circular economy has …

Although a diversity of approaches to wildlife management persists in Canada and the
United States of America, the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation (NAM) is a …

Precipitous declines in biodiversity threaten planetary boundaries, requiring transformative
changes to conservation. Colonial systems have decimated species and ecosystems and …

Global commitments to protected area expansion should prioritize opportunities to protect
climate refugia and ecosystems which store high levels of irrecoverable carbon, as key …