The global‐scale decline of animal biodiversity ('defaunation') represents one of the most
alarming consequences of human impacts on the planet. The quantification of this extinction …

There are growing calls for conservation frameworks that, rather than breaking the relations
between people and other parts of nature, capture place-based relationships that have …

Systematic assessments of species extinction risk at regular intervals are necessary for
informing conservation action,. Ongoing developments in taxonomy, threatening processes …

Mass extinctions during the past 500 million y rapidly removed branches from the
phylogenetic tree of life and required millions of years for evolution to generate functional …

Trees are pivotal to global biodiversity and nature's contributions to people, yet accelerating
global changes threaten global tree diversity, making accurate species extinction risk …

Despite being central to the implementation of conservation policies, the usefulness of the
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species is …

We need comprehensive information to manage and protect biodiversity in the face of global
environmental challenges, and artificial intelligence is required to generate that information …

Conservation planning requires extensive amounts of data, yet data collection is expensive,
and there is often a trade‐off between the quantity and quality of data that can be collected …

Addressing climate change and biodiversity loss will be the defining ecological, political,
and humanitarian challenge of our time. Alarmingly, policymakers face a narrowing window …

More than 70% of all vascular plants lack conservation status assessments. We aimed to
address this shortfall in knowledge of species extinction risk by using the World Checklist of …