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Governments and wildlife advocates are working to protect 30% of Earth’s lands and waters for nature by 2030. An ecologist explains why creating large protected areas should be a top priority.
Contrary to the idea that apes evolved their upright posture to reach for fruit in the forest canopy, the earliest known ape with this stature, Morotopithecus, lived in more open grassy environments.
Reservoirs and streams are in good shape in California and the Great Basin, but groundwater and ecosystems are another story. And then there’s the Colorado River Basin.
Plus, why you should always remove grass cuttings from your lawn.
Growing native grasses as cattle forage is an example of working lands conservation – balancing human use of the land with conservation goals.
Fire must be allowed to play its natural role.
Maintaining ecological balance in savannas is essential
Efforts to preserve biodiversity and slow climate change make natural bedfellows.
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 electric Pokemon’s real-life muse is charged with degrading the vast meadows of the Tibetan Plateau.
Hundreds of computer simulations point to a few best strategies for keeping homes safe from fire in a warming climate.
Large-scale tree-planting projects are politically popular and media-friendly, but without effective planning and long-term management, they can do more harm than good.
Large areas targeted for forest restoration in Africa are covered by savanna and grassland, which provide important ecosystem services that would be lost should they be converted to forests.
As in humans, environmental changes provoked chimpanzees to develop a diverse range of behaviours.
Restoring former prairies that have been plowed under for farming delivers land, wildlife and climate benefits. But a new study finds that the weather plays a surprising role.
Two hundred years of forced dispossession cannot erase millennia of land ownership and connection to country.
North America’s prairies once were home to millions of wild animals. Today, most of that land is farmed or developed, but some grasslands have never been plowed and could be rewilded.
Along with climate change and drought, invasive grasses are promoting wildfires across the US, even in areas that don’t normally burn.
The Canadian Prairies are vanishing more quickly than the Amazon rainforest as they are converted for agriculture and industrial uses.
Top contributors
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Senior Lecturer, School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Professor in Sustainability and Urban Planning, Leader, Interdisciplinary Conservation Science Research Group (ICON Science), RMIT University
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Professor in Biogeography, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Evolution and Ecology Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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Affiliate Full Professor, University of Washington; Research Associate, African Climate and Development Initiative and FitzPatrick Institute, University of Cape Town; CEO, Stable Planet Alliance, University of Washington
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Conservation Planning Biologist, Wildlife Conservation Society Canada and Adjunct Professor of Conservation Biology, University of Saskatchewan
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Science Communication Researcher, Stellenbosch University
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Professor Emeritus of International Environmental Policy, Tufts University
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Senior Lecturer in Biogeography, The University of Edinburgh
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Barbara Cox Anthony Chair in Wildlife Conservation, Colorado State University
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Research Fellow, Ndlovu node, South African Environmental Observation Network & Visiting lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand
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Postdoctoral associate in Ecology, University of Sheffield
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Professor of Restoration Ecology, University of California, Santa Cruz
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Spatial ecologist, The Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
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University of Cape Town
