Restrictions to reduce human interaction have helped to avoid greater suffering and death
from the COVID-19 pandemic, but have also created socioeconomic hardship. This …

Increased conservation action to protect more habitat and species is fueling a vigorous
debate about the relative effectiveness of different sorts of protected areas. Here we review …

Urgent solutions to global climate change are needed. Ambitious tree‐planting initiatives,
many already underway, aim to sequester enormous quantities of carbon to partly …

Forest restoration occupies centre stage in global conversations about carbon removal and
biodiversity conservation, but recent research rarely acknowledges social dimensions or …

Community forest management (CFM) has been promoted for decades as a way to merge
environmental conservation with economic development and natural resource rights …

The provision of ecosystem services is directly related to the type of land use and land cover
and management practices in a given area. Changes in land use and land cover can alter …

In this paper, we draw on common-pool resource theory to argue that indigenous territories,
when granted full property rights, will be effective at curbing deforestation. Using satellite …

Forest landscapes are complex socio-environmental systems. The degree to which forests
support human livelihoods, and humans affect forest ecology, depends in part on the spatial …

The awareness of the need for robust impact evaluations in conservation is growing and
statistical matching techniques are increasingly being used to assess the impacts of …

Forests have re-taken centre stage in global conversations about sustainability, climate and
biodiversity. Here, we use a horizon scanning approach to identify five large-scale trends …