Nigeria should urgently protect three freshwater ecosystems as these undisturbed environments are becoming rare globally.
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Fire must be allowed to play its natural role.
Reforestation programmes should consider the parasitic relationship between mistletoes and their hosts and their ecological benefits for bird diversity.
Urban ecosystem services sustain life but aren’t well protected.
Radical new thinking is required to fight climate change, and ‘gross ecosystem product’ might help.
Introduced species that become invasive are clearly destructive, but many exotic species are not detrimental to the existing ecosystem – some become complementary or take on lost ecological roles.
Humanity’s biggest challenges are not technical, but social, economic, political and behavioural. Effective actions are still possible to stabilise the climate and the planet, but must be taken now.
The decline of forest creatures like the Chapman’s chameleon are warning signs that forests are losing integrity.
The growing frequency of climate extremes affected human health and caused wide-scale damages to the ecosystems that people depend upon, including agriculture, fisheries and freshwater.
Abandoned US oil and gas wells and their associated land cover more than 2 million acres, a recent study estimates – an area larger than Delaware and Rhode Island combined.
When something is free, people use a lot of it. Economists are urging governments to compute values for natural resources – wildlife, plants, air, water – to create motives for protecting them.
Around the world, fragile coastal ecosystems are under intense pressure, and understanding and managing their complex interactions requires an integrated and interdisciplinary approach.
New approaches are required for Canada to meet its current conservation goals.
Biosphere reserves are the living labs in which people and nature learn how to live and thrive together. Four pilot sites in Africa show the programme’s promise.
Excavator, farmer, matchmaker: echidnas provide a host of benefits to nature. So let’s harness the potential.
People both for and against pricing biodiversity need to work together to protect the natural world.
We think of mountains as remote and little affected by human activity. Unfortunately, the negative impacts of what we do has important implications for nature, wildlife and human society.
Healthy seagrasses form underwater meadows teeming with fish and shellfish. A successful large-scale restoration project in Virginia could become a model for reseeding damaged seagrass beds worldwide.
Restoring western forests – thinning out small trees and dead wood – is an important strategy for reducing the risk of massive wildfires. But these projects aren’t fast, easy or cheap.
Wildlife populations have plummeted by 68% since 1970. But we have a plan to turn things around.
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Professor, Department of Geography and the Environment, University of Denver
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Associate Professor in Zoology, University of Tasmania
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Professor, The Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Professor, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Environmental Geography, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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AXA Chair in Coastal Resilience & Research Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz
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Professor, UCL
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CEO and Exec Director, Stable Planet Alliance; Affiliate Full Professor, University of Washington; Research Associate, African Climate and Development Initiative and FitzPatrick Institute, University of Cape Town
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Michael Vardon is a Friend of The Conversation.
Associate Professor at the Fenner School, Australian National University
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Postdoctoral research fellow, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Digital Agriculture & Soil Science; Director, Sydney Institute of Agriculture, University of Sydney
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Research Lecturer, Western Sydney University
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Professor, The University of Queensland
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Chief Executive Officer, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research; Professorial Fellow, Fenner School for the Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Professor, The University of Queensland
