Global importance of Indigenous Peoples, their lands, and knowledge systems for saving the world's primates from extinction

A Estrada, PA Garber, S Gouveia… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Primates, represented by 521 species, are distributed across 91 countries primarily in the
Neotropic, Afrotropic, and Indo-Malayan realms. Primates inhabit a wide range of habitats …

Extinction risk and threats to plants and fungi

E Nic Lughadha, SP Bachman, TCC Leão… - Plants, People …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Societal Impact Statement There is increasing awareness that plants and fungi, as natural
solutions, can play an important role in tackling ongoing global environmental challenges …

Global priority areas for ecosystem restoration

BBN Strassburg, A Iribarrem, HL Beyer, CL Cordeiro… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Extensive ecosystem restoration is increasingly seen as being central to conserving
biodiversity and stabilizing the climate of the Earth. Although ambitious national and global …

The global biomass of wild mammals

L Greenspoon, E Krieger, R Sender… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Wild mammals are icons of conservation efforts, yet there is no rigorous estimate available
for their overall global biomass. Biomass as a metric allows us to compare species with very …

Proactive conservation to prevent habitat losses to agricultural expansion

DR Williams, M Clark, GM Buchanan, GF Ficetola… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The projected loss of millions of square kilometres of natural ecosystems to meet future
demand for food, animal feed, fibre and bioenergy crops is likely to massively escalate …

Areas of global importance for conserving terrestrial biodiversity, carbon and water

M Jung, A Arnell, X De Lamo… - Nature Ecology & …, 2021 - nature.com
To meet the ambitious objectives of biodiversity and climate conventions, the international
community requires clarity on how these objectives can be operationalized spatially and …

How deregulation, drought and increasing fire impact Amazonian biodiversity

X Feng, C Merow, Z Liu, DS Park, PR Roehrdanz… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Biodiversity contributes to the ecological and climatic stability of the Amazon Basin,, but is
increasingly threatened by deforestation and fire,. Here we quantify these impacts over the …

Bridging the research-implementation gap in IUCN Red List assessments

V Cazalis, M Di Marco, SHM Butchart… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2022 - cell.com
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species
is central in biodiversity conservation, but insufficient resources hamper its long-term growth …

Map** co-benefits for carbon storage and biodiversity to inform conservation policy and action

C Soto-Navarro, C Ravilious… - … of the Royal …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Integrated high-resolution maps of carbon stocks and biodiversity that identify areas of
potential co-benefits for climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation can help …

Relative effects of land conversion and land-use intensity on terrestrial vertebrate diversity

P Semenchuk, C Plutzar, T Kastner, S Matej… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Land-use has transformed ecosystems over three quarters of the terrestrial surface, with
massive repercussions on biodiversity. Land-use intensity is known to contribute to the …