Societal Impact Statement A wide variety of plant species are threatened by illegal wildlife
trade (IWT), and yet plants receive scant attention in IWT policy and research, a matter of …

Narratives of landscape degradation are often linked to unsustainable fire use by local
communities. Madagascar is a case in point: the island is considered globally exceptional …

The northeastern SAVA region of Madagascar is the largest vanilla producing area in the
world and is flourishing due to a large global demand for natural vanilla. Although the …

We applied a participatory map** approach supported by very high-resolution satellite
imagery to reconstruct spatially explicit, year-to-year land use transitions in two highly …

Sustainable land governance in a telecoupled world is currently a challenge. Distant actors,
institutions, and interactions shape local land uses and are assumed to affect sustainable …

Using a participatory Bayesian network-based land-use decision model, we simulate future
land-use patterns under various scenarios, including changes in vanilla and clove market …

Since 1990, northern Madagascar has been overwhelmed by successive and overlap**
resource booms and busts. Erratic commodity markets—including those for gold, sapphires …

Rosewood has become the world's most trafficked group of endangered species, with global
seizure values surpassing that of ivory, rhino horn, and big cats combined. This is almost …

Madagascar is a global biodiversity hotspot of conservation concern. The decline of natural
forest habitats due to shifting cultivation has been one of the major land use changes during …

Increasing connections and influences from near to far have changed social structures,
access to natural resources, and essential livelihoods of smallholders (ie, those with …