A large part of the world’s terrestrial surface has been transformed by agriculture, reshaping the natural environment. Many species have been lost or are endangered due to mismanaged agricultural ...

Conservation needs to scale successfully to protect nature. A new paper in Nature Ecology & Evolution takes lessons from around the world to show how that might be done. To reverse biodiversity loss ...

Conservation ecology of avian species integrates ecological principles with applied strategies to sustain bird populations and the ecosystem services they provide. Birds inhabit a wide range of ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Halting biodiversity loss is one of the great challenges of the 21st century, and if we want international conservation policies that work, we need ...

"Conservation led by Indigenous Peoples and local communities, based on their own knowledge and tenure systems, is far more likely to deliver positive outcomes for nature. In fact, conservation very ...

More than half a century has passed since Garrett Hardin published The Tragedy of the Commons in Science in 1968. In that ...

One of the rapidly developing areas in conservation science deals with the effects of urban and suburban expansion on ecosystems. The central issue is to determine how to provide for human habitation ...

An African bat whose presence in Sicily had remained an unresolved zoological mystery for almost two centuries has now been documented on Pantelleria Island. A study published in Global Ecology and ...

In a unique class hosted at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, early-career ecologists learned to apply emerging technologies to power conservation breakthroughs. Mike Bock Instructor ...

This area entails study and maintenance of biological diversity at the level of genes, populations, communities, ecosystems and biomes; intellectual underpinnings include evolutionary theory, ...

Article by Molly Schafer Photos courtesy of Molly Schafer, Mat Smith, Andy Tocydlowski, Maya Walker, Jim White, Kenneth Geisert and University Archives September 10, 2024 The discovery of a ...

The Namibia Scientific Society has invited members of the public to attend an insightful presentation titled “Namibia’s Iconic Carnivores: Cheetah Ecology, Innovative Field Monitoring, and Future ...