The good, the bad and the ugly of COVID-19 lockdown effects on wildlife conservation: Insights from the first European locked down country

R Manenti, E Mori, V Di Canio, S Mercurio… - Biological …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic zoonosis has determined extensive lockdowns worldwide that
provide an unprecedented opportunity to understand how large-scale shifts of human …

Motivations, success, and cost of coral reef restoration

E Bayraktarov, PJ Stewart‐Sinclair… - Restoration …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Coral reef restoration is an increasingly important part of tropical marine conservation.
Information about what motivates coral reef restoration as well as its success and cost is not …

The economic benefits of invasive species management

N Hanley, M Roberts - People and Nature, 2019‏ - eprints.gla.ac.uk
Invasive species are known to cause significant negative impacts to ecosystems and to
people. In this paper, we outline the nature of these economic impacts, and then present a …

Spending to save: What will it cost to halt Australia's extinction crisis?

BA Wintle, NCR Cadenhead, RA Morgain… - Conservation …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
As with most governments worldwide, Australian governments list threatened species and
proffer commitments to recovering them. Yet most of Australia's imperiled species continue …

Economic costs of invasive alien species in the Mediterranean basin

M Kourantidou, RN Cuthbert, PJ Haubrock, A Novoa… - NeoBiota, 2021‏ - hal.science
Invasive alien species (IAS) negatively impact the environment and undermine human well-
being, often resulting in considerable economic costs. The Mediterranean basin is a …

Coral reef restoration efforts in Latin American countries and territories

E Bayraktarov, AT Banaszak, P Montoya Maya… - PLoS …, 2020‏ - journals.plos.org
Coral reefs worldwide are degrading due to climate change, overfishing, pollution, coastal
development, coral bleaching, and diseases. In areas where the natural recovery of an …

Costs in conservation: Common costly mistakes and how to avoid them

VM Adams - PLoS Biology, 2024‏ - journals.plos.org
There has been an increasingly prevalent message that data regarding costs must be
included in conservation planning activities to make cost-efficient decisions. Despite the …

Funding deficits of protected areas in Brazil

JMC da Silva, TCA de Castro Dias, AC da Cunha… - Land use policy, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Protected areas (PAs) are the most effective public policy instruments to protect natural
ecosystems and the services these ecosystems provide. Nevertheless, several PAs present …

[HTML][HTML] Co-occurrence of biodiversity, carbon storage, coastal protection, and fish and invertebrate production to inform global mangrove conservation planning

M Sievers, CJ Brown, J McGowan… - Science of the Total …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Mangrove forests support unique biodiversity and provide a suite of ecosystem services (ES)
that benefit people. Decades of continual mangrove loss and degradation have necessitated …

[HTML][HTML] Conservation Imperatives: securing the last unprotected terrestrial sites harboring irreplaceable biodiversity

E Dinerstein, AR Joshi, NR Hahn, ATL Lee… - Frontiers in …, 2024‏ - frontiersin.org
Ambitious biodiversity goals to protect 30% or more of the Earth's surface by 2030 (30x30)
require strategic near-term targets. To define areas that must be protected to prevent the …