Anthropogenic pressures are driving insect declines across the world. Although protected
areas (PAs) play a prominent role in safeguarding many vertebrate species from human …

People can express irrational fears and disgust responses towards certain wild organisms.
This so-called 'biophobia'can be useful and indeed necessary in some circumstances …

Human Footprint, the pressure imposed on the eco-environment by changing ecological
processes and natural landscapes, is raising worldwide concerns on biodiversity and …

Archaeological and paleoecological evidence shows that by 10,000 BCE, all human
societies employed varying degrees of ecologically transformative land use practices …

Many global environmental agendas, including halting biodiversity loss, reversing land
degradation, and limiting climate change, depend upon retaining forests with high …

COVID-19 lockdowns in early 2020 reduced human mobility, providing an opportunity to
disentangle its effects on animals from those of landscape modifications. Using GPS data …

Abstract As the Earth's Third Pole and the Asian water tower, the Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau
(QTP) plays a key role in global climate regulation and biodiversity maintenance. Living in …

Conservation efforts should target the few remaining areas of the world that represent
outstanding examples of ecological integrity and aim to restore ecological integrity to a much …

Roads are expanding at the fastest pace in human history. This is the case especially in
biodiversity-rich tropical nations, where roads can result in forest loss and fragmentation …

With the advent of the Anthropocene, biological invasions have reached an unprecedented
level, and the number of species introductions is still increasing in an ever‐changing world …