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 …

The effectiveness of global protected areas for climate change mitigation

L Duncanson, M Liang, V Leitold, J Armston… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Forests play a critical role in stabilizing Earth's climate. Establishing protected areas (PAs)
represents one approach to forest conservation, but PAs were rarely created to mitigate …

Assessment of the effectiveness of China's protected areas in enhancing ecosystem services

C Yu, Z Zhang, E Jeppesen, Y Gao, Y Liu, Y Liu, Q Lu… - Ecosystem Services, 2024 - Elsevier
Protected areas are critical for providing ecosystem services. However, studies on the effect
of protected areas on ecosystem service enhancement remain lacking, which restricts …

[HTML][HTML] Contribution of the Amazon protected areas program to forest conservation

BS Soares-Filho, U Oliveira, MN Ferreira… - Biological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Established in 2002, the Amazon Protected Areas Program (ARPA) supports 120
Conservation Units (CUs) in the Brazilian Amazon, covering 62 Mha. Here, we quantified the …

[HTML][HTML] Continuous growth of human footprint risks compromising the benefits of protected areas on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

T Hua, W Zhao, F Cherubini, X Hu, P Pereira - Global Ecology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Protected areas (PAs) are the critical societal tool to preserve biodiversity and ecosystem
services (ESs), but human disturbances frequently threaten them. Here, we used multiple …

Strengthening protected areas for climate refugia on the Tibetan Plateau, China

T Hua, W Zhao, F Cherubini, X Hu, P Pereira - Biological Conservation, 2022 - Elsevier
Protected areas (PAs) are at the forefront of efforts to conserve and restore biodiversity,
while climate change can risk compromising the ecological benefits of PAs. Therefore …

Formalizing tenure of Indigenous lands improved forest outcomes in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil

R Benzeev, S Zhang, MA Rauber, EA Vance… - PNAS …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Across the globe, the legal land rights and tenure of many Indigenous peoples are yet to be
recognized. A growing body of research demonstrates that tenure of Indigenous lands …

[HTML][HTML] Habitat quality on the edge of anthropogenic pressures: Predicting the impact of land use changes in the Brazilian Upper Paraguay river Basin

M Broquet, FS Campos, P Cabral, J David - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2024 - Elsevier
Landscape changes driven by anthropogenic activities often have negative impacts on
ecosystems, jeopardizing the provision of vital services that sustain biotic elements and …

[HTML][HTML] Minimum costs to conserve 80% of the Brazilian Amazon

JMC da Silva, LCF Barbosa, J Topf, ICG Vieira… - Perspectives in Ecology …, 2022 - Elsevier
The protection of the Brazilian Amazon is essential to prevent the collapse of global
biodiversity and minimize the negative impacts of climate change worldwide. However, there …

[HTML][HTML] How to halt deforestation in the Amazon? A Bayesian process-tracing approach

F Brandão, B Befani, J Soares-Filho, R Rajão, E Garcia - Land Use Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, we employ for the first time a Bayesian process-tracing approach to assess the
role of different interventions designed to halt deforestation. We applied the methodology to …