Rates of tree cover loss in key biodiversity areas on Indigenous Peoples' lands.

Indigenous Peoples' lands (IPL) cover at least 38 million km (28.1%) of Earth's terrestrial surface. These lands can be important for biodiversity conservation.

Reconciling Biodiversity Conservation and Widespread Deployment of Renewable Energy Technologies in the UK.

Renewable energy will potentially make an important contribution towards the dual aims of meeting carbon emission reduction targets and future energy demand. However, some technologies have considerable potential to impact on the biodiversity of the environments in which they are placed. In this study, an assessment was undertaken of the realistic deployment potential of a range of renewable energy technologies in the UK, considering constraints imposed by biodiversity conservation priorities.

Toward quantification of the impact of 21st-century deforestation on the extinction risk of terrestrial vertebrates.

Conservation actions need to be prioritized, often taking into account species' extinction risk. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List provides an accepted, objective framework for the assessment of extinction risk. Assessments based on data collected in the field are the best option, but the field data to base these on are often limited.

Protection reduces loss of natural land-cover at sites of conservation importance across Africa.

There is an emerging consensus that protected areas are key in reducing adverse land-cover change, but their efficacy remains difficult to quantify. Many previous assessments of protected area effectiveness have compared changes between sets of protected and unprotected sites that differ systematically in other potentially confounding respects (e.g.

Effectiveness of vegetation surrogates for parasitoid wasps in reserve selection.

Selecting suitable nature reserves is a continuing challenge in conservation, particularly for target groups that are time-consuming to survey, species rich, and extinction prone. One such group is the parasitoid Hymenoptera, which have been excluded from conservation planning. If basic characteristics of habitats or vegetation could be used as reliable surrogates of specific target taxa, this would greatly facilitate appropriate reserve selection.