Abstract The European Union's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), being one of the
strongest drivers of agricultural land-use practices, has a substantial impact on biodiversity …

Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas (IBAs) are sites identified as being globally important
for the conservation of bird populations on the basis of an internationally agreed set of …

Aim To assess the effectiveness of protected areas in preventing biodiversity decline. We
first test whether species richness of butterfly assemblages is higher within European Natura …

The Natura 2000 network of protected areas is considered by the European Commission to
be the centrepiece of the European Union's nature and biodiversity policy. This paper …

Despite the protected area expansion over the last decades, biodiversity continues to
decline. The EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030, as well as the Kunming-Montreal Global …

Strong biodiversity declines have been reported across the European Union, especially in
insects, despite conservation policy such as the Habitats Directive that aims to halt …

Protected areas are a cornerstone of international conservation. The EU Natura 2000
network is the largest coordinated network of protected areas in the world, but its impact on …

The Natura 2000 network of protected areas is the centrepiece of European Union nature
policy, currently covering almost one-fifth of the EU's entire land territory plus large marine …

Current rates of land use are driving temporal changes in avian communities. Thus, it is
essential to properly designate and manage protected areas since they mitigate the adverse …

Networks of protected areas (PAs) are globally recognized as playing a key role for in situ
conservation of species. Despite a high potential for biodiversity conservation, PAs may not …