The diversity of life on Earth is under threat, but understanding this threat and the actions needed to address the ongoing biodiversity crisis requires measuring biodiversity accurately and ...

In October, world leaders will gather at the United Nations Biodiversity Conference in Cali, Colombia, to put an ambitious plan to halt human-induced species extinction into action. The conference, ...

Diverse ecosystems support the web of life and in the process, provide food, water, medicine and materials for humanity. But the butterfly effect tells us all things are connected. So, when ...

More than ever before, there is a growing interest in dedicating resources to stop the loss of biodiversity, as recently exemplified by the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) decided ...

Payments that enable landowners to rewild ecologically degraded land—in the form of biodiversity credits bought by investors ...

Scientists advocate for change to promote standardized practices in the field -- a practice that has been missing from the science. Assessing wildlife populations, as well as understanding the ...

At first blush, the idea of biodiversity seems simple enough. It is essentially the variety of all life on Earth. But making sense of biodiversity in a way that can help us halt or even reverse its ...

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Diversity is a much discussed and debated topic, and biologists have observed and studied various aspects of natural diversity for quite some time. The term “biodiversity” was widely popularized in ...

Existing data are too biased to provide a reliable picture of the global average of local species richness trends. Existing data are too biased to provide a reliable picture of the global average of ...

Conservation has never lacked ideas. Protected areas, payments for ecosystem services, community management, certification schemes, and public campaigns have all been promoted as solutions to ...