Functional connectivity of the world’s protected areas
Conservation Corridor,
Our world’s biodiversity is in crisis, and biodiversity losses are likely to accelerate if human modifications continue to make…
Our world’s biodiversity is in crisis, and biodiversity losses are likely to accelerate if human modifications continue to make…
This story was originally published on The Conversation and appears here under a Creative Commons license. Large carnivores in…
Wild dogs are usually with their pack mates. Scott Creel, CC BY-ND Large carnivores in Africa are important from ecological…
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Agricultural factors can be linked to more than 25% of all infectious diseases and more than 50% of all zoonotic infectious…
A conservation scientist interviewed on the programme says Sir David tells it like it is.
The tree of life is under threat. We used data for the world's terrestrial vertebrates to examine the extent of humanity's…
Encouraging biodiversity is futile if we are protecting natural habitats just to offset those we destroy. The goal is to ensure…
Our paper in Nature Communications is here: https://rdcu.be/baNYo
New, highly detailed maps now reveal the state of the world’s wilderness, both on land and at sea, and the picture looks bleak.
By Fred Nelson
The "human footprint" on our environment is becoming even more noticeable as protected areas are at risk.
One-third of the world’s protected land is being degraded by “intensive human activity,” such as logging, agriculture, mining…
And that spells trouble for global biodiversity
The world’s nations have set up 200,000 protected areas in which nature is supposed to flourish, but in many cases the…
A new study finds that the big cats and other endangered animals do best in places where there’s no…
A global analysis of tracking data reveals that mammals move distances two to three times shorter in human-modified landscapes…
Torres del Paine, Chile. Photo credit: Gregoire Dubois.By James Allan, James Watson, Bastian Bertzky
SPECIALE MAGGIO – L’ambiente della savana e l’uomo sono da sempre legati da un rapporto di reciproca influenza. Se da un lato…
The authors of a new study that attempts to quantify the number of wildlife species that are already experiencing adverse…
Conservation today operates in a world of targets: Protect 17 percent of terrestrial systems and 10 percent of marine systems…
World’s truly wild regions could be gone altogether by the end of the century if current trend of decline continues
Maybe so, at least in some significant ways. There is a new paper from Nature, by Oscar Venter et.al. It strikes me as an…
The area exploited significantly by civilization grew from 77% of ice-free land in 1993 to 86% by 2009. …
Surprisingly, it turns out that while population has continued to grow, the environmental impact per person and per unit of…
Genetic Diversity of Cultivated Lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.) and Its Relation to the World’s Agro-ecological Zones. 352…
See on Scoop.it - Food Policy The global impact of human activities on the natural environment is extensive, but those impacts…
It’s bad, but it could be a lot worse.The urban sprawl of Lima, Peru CREDIT: AP Photo/Dado Galdieri, FileFor anyone interested…
Scientists find that impacts of population growth on the planet’s biodiversity aren’t generally as bad as feared – but are…
The physical, geographical impact of humans on global ecosystems—what's known as the human footprint—has grown more slowly than…
AMBIENTE – Ogni specie animale o vegetale esistita ha lasciato tracce del suo passaggio sul pianeta, ma l’impronta umana è…
Human activities have taken a heavy toll on our environment. But there may be some hope, researchers say. Although human…
Humanity’s influence on the natural world is widespread, but a new study published in the journal Nature Communications finds…