Natural climate solutions are being advanced to arrest climate warming by protecting and
enhancing carbon capture and storage in plants, soils and sediments in ecosystems. These …

BACKGROUND Fire has shaped the diversity of life on Earth for millions of years. Variation
in fire regimes continues to be a source of biodiversity across the globe, and many plants …

New satellite remote sensing and machine learning techniques offer untapped possibilities
to monitor global biodiversity with unprecedented speed and precision. These efficiencies …

Protected areas are the cornerstones of conservation efforts to mitigate the anthropogenic
pressures driving biodiversity loss. Nations aim to protect 30% of Earth's land and water by …

Human-wildlife conflicts (HWC) are often caused by human population increase, high
livestock and wildlife population densities and changing land use and climate. These …

The world's biomes and their associated ecosystems are artificially fractured by geopolitical
boundaries that define countries. Yet 'transboundary'landscapes often overlap with …

Regional integration initiatives have triggered impacts on land use changes (LUC) and
landscape patterns through geo-economic cooperation like cross-border infrastructure …

African lions (Panthera leo) and African savanna (Loxodonta africana) and forest (L. cyclotis)
elephants pose threats to people, crops, and livestock, and are themselves threatened with …

Expanding protected areas (PAs) is a worldwide endeavour aimed at addressing the
biodiversity crisis and harnessing the benefits that natural ecosystems provide to humanity …

Over 42 million people rely on Lake Victoria as their primary source of food, employment,
and clean drinking water. The lake's fisheries have produced around one million tonnes in …