Global importance of Indigenous Peoples, their lands, and knowledge systems for saving the world's primates from extinction

A Estrada, PA Garber, S Gouveia… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Primates, represented by 521 species, are distributed across 91 countries primarily in the
Neotropic, Afrotropic, and Indo-Malayan realms. Primates inhabit a wide range of habitats …

Pervasive human-driven decline of life on Earth points to the need for transformative change

S Díaz, J Settele, ES Brondízio, HT Ngo, J Agard… - Science, 2019 - science.org
BACKGROUND Human actions have long been known to drive declines in nature, and there
is growing awareness of how globalization means that these drivers increasingly act at a …

[PDF][PDF] Overfishing drives over one-third of all sharks and rays toward a global extinction crisis

NK Dulvy, N Pacoureau, CL Rigby, RA Pollom… - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
The scale and drivers of marine biodiversity loss are being revealed by the International
Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List assessment process. We present the first …

Half a century of global decline in oceanic sharks and rays

N Pacoureau, CL Rigby, PM Kyne, RB Sherley… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Overfishing is the primary cause of marine defaunation, yet declines in and increasing
extinction risks of individual species are difficult to measure, particularly for the largest …

The taxonomic impediment: a shortage of taxonomists, not the lack of technical approaches

MS Engel, LMP Ceríaco, GM Daniel… - Zoological Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
For almost 30 years, there have been active discussions about the taxonomic impediment
and the challenge this represents to address the current human-induced biodiversity crisis …

Using the IUCN Red List to map threats to terrestrial vertebrates at global scale

MBJ Harfoot, A Johnston, A Balmford… - Nature Ecology & …, 2021 - nature.com
The Anthropocene is characterized by unparalleled human impact on other species,
potentially ushering in the sixth mass extinction. Yet mitigation efforts remain hampered by …

A review of the major threats and challenges to global bat conservation

WF Frick, T Kingston, J Flanders - … of the new York Academy of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Bats are an ecologically and taxonomically diverse group accounting for roughly a fifth of
mammalian diversity worldwide. Many of the threats bats face (eg, habitat loss, bushmeat …

[HTML][HTML] The threat of invasive species to IUCN-listed critically endangered species: A systematic review

MA Duenas, DJ Hemming, A Roberts… - Global Ecology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
We conducted a comprehensive review of the research literature on interactions between
invasive species and species included in the critically endangered category of the …

Future threats to biodiversity and pathways to their prevention

D Tilman, M Clark, DR Williams, K Kimmel, S Polasky… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Tens of thousands of species are threatened with extinction as a result of human activities.
Here we explore how the extinction risks of terrestrial mammals and birds might change in …

Pathways to zoonotic spillover

RK Plowright, CR Parrish, H McCallum… - Nature Reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
Zoonotic spillover, which is the transmission of a pathogen from a vertebrate animal to a
human, presents a global public health burden but is a poorly understood phenomenon …