Environment and conservation experts from the University of Nottingham Malaysia (UNMC) and the University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC) are challenging decision-makers, infrastructure planners and conservationists to ...
Ecology
Jan 18, 2018
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The public widely believes that the marine environment is under threat from human activities, and supports actions to protect the marine environment in their region, according to a new study to be published in the February ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 10, 2018
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New research suggests that geographical mismatches between conservation needs and expertise may hinder global conservation goals.
Ecology
Aug 30, 2017
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Until the 1980s, biodiversity conservation in the tropics focused on the "fines and fences" approach: creating protected areas from which local people were forcibly excluded. More recently, conservationists have embraced ...
Environment
Aug 9, 2017
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Biodiversity loss is one of the driving factors in ecosystem change, on par with climate change and human development. When one species, especially a large predator, disappears from an area, other populations will be affected, ...
Ecology
Jun 26, 2017
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Ecosystems are a complex web of interactions. These ecological networks are being reorganized by extinctions and colonization events caused by human impacts, such as climate change and habitat destruction. In a paper published ...
Ecology
May 9, 2017
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Identifying critical areas for global biodiversity is an important step when prioritising areas for conservation, and generating biodiversity hotspot maps based on global species ranges - at a scale usable by local management ...
Ecology
Nov 10, 2016
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A University of Kent study has suggested that rural areas can provide for both people and wildlife in biodiversity-rich tropical countries such as Colombia if agriculture is administered in the right way.
Ecology
Oct 24, 2016
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Victor Anton's PhD research investigates the impacts of predators on native biodiversity in urban areas.
Ecology
Sep 27, 2016
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Countries that contain most of the world's species biodiversity are also spending the least on a per-person basis to protect these natural assets, according to scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the ...
Ecology
Jun 20, 2016
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