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Protecting the continent’s remaining pristine wilderness areas is urgent, but achievable.
Enforcement at protected areas is key way to prevent bushmeat poaching, but it’s also important to recognise the contribution bushmeat makes to livelihoods, incomes and food security.
Our research investigated 900 ‘alien’ species across almost 200,000 protected areas worldwide.
New research identifies areas where species may take refuge as the climate changes and finds they’re largely unprotected.
Declaring conservation areas is meant to preserve nature. Why is this approach still failing?
To save what’s left of nature on this increasingly human planet, conservation needs to become a top priority around the world, from the wildest of wildlands to the densest of cities.
Studies show that West Africa’s critically endangered chimpanzees are finding ways of adapting to their rapidly changing habitat, but they still remain highly at risk.
Lifting the trophy hunting moratorium in Botswana is more about politics and less about elephant conservation.
Countries can protect biodiversity and recognize Indigenous peoples as conservation partners.
A billion dollars a year would secure Africa’s lions and its landscapes as well as millions of people living nearby.
National parks and nature reserves are vital for conservation, but are also great places for recreation. Balancing the two is tricky, but it can be done if we realise parks are not just playgrounds.
Efforts to conserve nature needs to include communities.
Land is culturally and historically important to people and often this is ignored when addressing land issues.
Governments around the world have vowed to halt the loss of global biodiversity by 2020, but without more investment, we’ll miss some of the targets.
The world’s national parks cover an area bigger than South America. But a new survey finds that one-third of this area is subject to pressure from human developments, potentially putting wildlife at risk.
New Zealand’s wildlife and natural wonders are major draw cards for tourists, but tourism companies operating in national parks contribute little to conservation.
Since 1992, an area of land two-thirds the size of Australia has been converted to human use.
The world has lost 10% of its wilderness areas in the past 20 years and, with it, vast stores of carbon.
New research shows protected areas are doing well at protecting large, iconic wildlife, but less well at helping smaller species.
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Professor, The University of Queensland
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Postdoctoral research fellow, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland
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Ecologist, Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research
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Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University
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Professor of Geography and Environmental Systems, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Adjunct Professor in Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
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Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Director, Griffith Climate Action Beacon, Griffith University
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Professor in Biodiversity and Conservation, The University of Queensland
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Research scientist, The University of Queensland
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Professor and Chair, Southwestern Environmental Science and Policy, Northern Arizona University
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Professor of International Politics, University of Sheffield
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Lecturer, The University of Queensland
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Oxford Martin Fellow, University of Oxford
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Honorary Research Fellow, Durrell Institute for Conservation Ecology, University of Kent
