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 …

Biocultural vulnerability exposes threats of culturally important species

V Reyes-García, R Cámara-Leret… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
There are growing calls for conservation frameworks that, rather than breaking the relations
between people and other parts of nature, capture place-based relationships that have …

Critical transitions in the Amazon forest system

BM Flores, E Montoya, B Sakschewski, N Nascimento… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The possibility that the Amazon forest system could soon reach a tip** point, inducing
large-scale collapse, has raised global concern,–. For 65 million years, Amazonian forests …

Evaluating natural medicinal resources and their exposure to global change

S Theodoridis, EG Drakou, T Hickler… - The Lancet Planetary …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Medicinal plants and their bioactive molecules are integral components of nature and have
supported the health of human societies for millennia. However, the prevailing view of …

[HTML][HTML] Connected Conservation: Rethinking conservation for a telecoupled world

R Carmenta, J Barlow, MGB Lima, E Berenguer… - Biological …, 2023 - Elsevier
The convergence of the biodiversity and climate crises, widening of wealth inequality, and
most recently the COVID-19 pandemic underscore the urgent need to mobilize change to …

Societal extinction of species

I Jarić, U Roll, M Bonaiuto, BW Brook… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2022 - cell.com
The ongoing global biodiversity crisis not only involves biological extinctions, but also the
loss of experience and the gradual fading of cultural knowledge and collective memory of …

The role of non-English-language science in informing national biodiversity assessments

T Amano, V Berdejo-Espinola, M Akasaka… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Consulting the best available evidence is key to successful conservation decision-making.
While much scientific evidence on conservation continues to be published in non-English …

Achieving zero extinction for land plants

RT Corlett - Trends in Plant Science, 2023 - cell.com
Despite the importance of plants for humans and the threats to their future, plant
conservation receives far less support compared with vertebrate conservation. Plants are …

Contributions of human cultures to biodiversity and ecosystem conservation

C Levis, BM Flores, JV Campos-Silva… - Nature Ecology & …, 2024 - nature.com
The expansion of globalized industrial societies is causing global warming, ecosystem
degradation, and species and language extinctions worldwide. Mainstream conservation …

The likely extinction of hundreds of palm species threatens their contributions to people and ecosystems

S Bellot, Y Lu, A Antonelli, WJ Baker… - Nature Ecology & …, 2022 - nature.com
Protecting nature's contributions to people requires accelerating extinction risk assessment
and better integrating evolutionary, functional and used diversity with conservation planning …