This Special Issue addresses the intersections of outdoor recreation, nature-based tourism,
and sustainability. Outdoor recreation and nature-based tourism provide essential benefits …

Many conservation plans remain unimplemented, in part because of insufficient
consideration of the social processes that influence conservation decisions. Complementing …

Extensive ecosystem restoration is increasingly seen as being central to conserving
biodiversity and stabilizing the climate of the Earth. Although ambitious national and global …

Social media data have been extensively used in numerous fields of science, but examples
of their use in conservation science are still very limited. In this paper, we propose a …

Conservation professionals need to know what has worked and what has not when
designing, implementing, evaluating and refining conservation projects. Project failure …

Conflicts between people over wildlife are widespread and damaging to both the wildlife
and people involved. Such issues are often termed human–wildlife conflicts. We argue that …

Participation has emerged as an appropriate approach for enhancing natural resources
management. However, despite long experimentation with participation, there are still …

Strategies to protect biodiversity in the face of a global crisis must be place‐based and
sensitive to context. A failure to consider the socioeconomic and political circumstances, as …

Systematic conservation planning (SCP) is a field of conservation biology concerned with
delivering on‐the‐ground actions that achieve conservation goals. It describes a set of …

The vast scope of conservation problems has forced biologists and managers to rely on"
surrogate" species to serve as shortcuts to guide their decision making. These species …