Australia committed to restore 30% of degraded ecosystems by 2030 when we signed the global biodiversity framework. But what does that really mean? It’s open to interpretation. So let’s be ambitious.
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As protected and conserved areas increase, an equity-based approach that respects Indigenous rights can help bring the transformative changes we need to halt and reverse biodiversity loss.
Australia now has a target of protecting 30% of its land and sea area. But the challenges of conserving urban biodiversity illustrate why it’s a much more complex task than a simple target suggests.
A new biodiversity index captures the climate risk for nearly 25,000 marine species and their ecosystems and lays the groundwork for climate-smart approaches to management and conservation.
Tourism revenues account for almost 10% of Costa Rica’s gross domestic product. New research shows that charismatic wildlife is necessary but not sufficient to attract ecotourists.
Why rely on unproven technologies when we can store carbon and cut emissions through Country-based and nature-based solutions?
New Zealand recently became the first country to make climate-related financial disclosures mandatory, but it has some way to go to scale up investment in climate resilience.
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Professor in Biogeography, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Research Fellow, School of Social and Political Sciences and School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences and Public Policy, Auckland University of Technology
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Professor in Conservation Science, School of Ecosystem and Forest Science, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor of Geography, University of Guelph
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Associate Professor, TC Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer, Landscape Architecture, Deakin University
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Research Officer, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Postdoctoral Scholar in Biology, Stanford University
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University
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Stanford University
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Research Scientist, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Adjunct Professor, Dalhousie University
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