Concerns about poaching and trafficking have led conservationists to seek urgent
responses to tackle the impact on wildlife. One possible solution is the militarisation of …

Originally conceived to conserve iconic landscapes and wildlife, protected areas are now
expected to achieve an increasingly diverse set of conservation, social and economic …

Terrestrial mammals are experiencing a massive collapse in their population sizes and
geographical ranges around the world, but many of the drivers, patterns and consequences …

Protected areas (PAs) are a cornerstone of global conservation and central to international
plans to minimize global extinctions. During the coming century, global ecosystem …

Park managers call for cost-effective and innovative solutions to handle a wide variety of
environmental problems that threaten biodiversity in protected areas. Recently, drones have …

International agreements mandate the expansion of Earth's protected-area network as a
bulwark against the continued extinction of wild populations, species, and ecosystems. Yet …

Illegal wildlife trade (IWT) has increased in profile in recent years as a global policy issue,
largely because of its association with declines in prominent internationally trafficked …

Protected Areas (PAs) are a critical tool for maintaining habitat integrity and species
diversity, and now cover more than 12.7% of the planet's land surface area. However, there …

Enhancing the resilience of ecosystem services (ES) that underpin human well-being is
critical for meeting current and future societal needs, and requires specific governance and …

Protected areas in tropical countries are managed under different governance regimes, the
relative effectiveness of which in avoiding deforestation has been the subject of recent …