Two factors have elevated recent academic and policy interest in tropical deforestation: first,
the realization that it is a major contributor to climate change; and second, a revolution in …

Improved forest management (IFM) has the potential to remove and store large quantities of
carbon from the atmosphere. Around the world, 293 IFM offset projects have produced 11 …

The Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) sector encompasses managed
ecosystems and offers significant mitigation opportunities while delivering food, wood and …

Avoiding catastrophic climate change requires rapid decarbonization and improved
ecosystem stewardship at a planetary scale. The carbon released through the burning of …

Mining poses significant and potentially underestimated risks to tropical forests worldwide. In
Brazil's Amazon, mining drives deforestation far beyond operational lease boundaries, yet …

An intact forest landscape (IFL) is a seamless mosaic of forest and naturally treeless
ecosystems with no remotely detected signs of human activity and a minimum area of 500 …

Abstract The United Nations recently agreed to major expansions of global protected areas
(PAs) to slow biodiversity declines. However, although reserves often reduce habitat loss …

In response to the important benefits forests provide, there is a growing effort to reforest the
world. Past policies and current commitments indicate that many of these forests will be …

Protected areas are widely considered essential for biodiversity conservation. However, few
global studies have demonstrated that protection benefits a broad range of species. Here …

In an epoch of rapid environmental change, understanding and predicting how biodiversity
will respond to a changing climate is an urgent challenge. Since we seldom have sufficient …