The expansion of globalized industrial societies is causing global warming, ecosystem
degradation, and species and language extinctions worldwide. Mainstream conservation …

River-floodplain ecosystems (RFEs) provide multiple ecosystem services. However, their
importance may be underestimated because they are not summarized yet. In this paper, we …

Indonesia is one of the ten member states of the economically and politically diverse
regional organization of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Southeast …

We contend that biocultural approaches to conservation can achieve effective and just
conservation outcomes while addressing erosion of both cultural and biological diversity …

The biological knowledge and associated values and beliefs of Indigenous and other long‐
resident Peoples are often overlooked and underrepresented in governance, planning and …

We analyze how governments and the international community expand protected areas
(PAs) to reduce biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation at a cost to indigenous peoples …

Sacred Ecology examines bodies of knowledge held by indigenous and other rural peoples
around the world, and asks how we can learn from this knowledge and ways of knowing …

Abstract Islands make up 5.3% of Earth's land area yet maintain an estimated 19% of bird
species, 17% of rodents, 17% of flowering plants, and 27% of human languages. Species …

Almost every ecosystem has been amended so that plants and animals can be used as
food, fibre, fodder, medicines, traps and weapons. Historically, wild plants and animals were …

Several intergovernmental policy instruments, including the World Heritage Convention of
UNESCO and the Convention on Biological Diversity, have proposed to develop integrated …