Implementing The Global Biodiversity Framework

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• Synthesizing the scientific evidence to inform the development of the post-2020 global framework on biodiversity.
• Substantial losses in ecoregion intactness highlight urgency of globally coordinated action
• Critical thresholds and tangible targets for ecosystem-based management of coral reef fisheries (press release)
• Relationships between structural complexity, coral traits, and reef fish 1 assemblages 2 3
• Global baselines and benchmarks for fish biomass: comparing remote reefs and fisheries closures (press release)
• Area requirements to safeguard Earth's marine species
• The location and protection status of Earth’s diminishing marine wilderness
• Catastrophic declines in wilderness areas undermine global environment targets
• Intact ecosystems provide best defense against climate change (press release)
• Wilderness areas halve the extinction risk of terrestrial biodiversity (press release)
• Meeting fisheries, ecosystem function, and biodiversity goals in a human-dominated world (press release)

September 2020

• Change in terrestrial human footprint drives continued loss of intact ecosystems (press release)
• Just ten percent of the global terrestrial protected area network is structurally connected via intact land (press release)
  
• The importance of Indigenous Peoples’ lands for the conservation of terrestrial mammals (press release)
  
• Renewable energy production will exacerbate mining threats to biodiversity (press release)

August 2020

• Protected areas are now the last strongholds for many imperiled mammal species (press release)
• Spatial priorities for conserving the most intact biodiverse forests within Central Africa (press release)
  

June 2020

• Environmental destruction not avoided with the Sustainable Development Goals (press release)
• Keeping pace with climate change in global terrestrial protected areas (press release)

April 2020

• Local conditions and policy design determine whether ecological compensation can achieve No Net Loss goals (press release)
• Reconciling global priorities for conserving biodiversity habitat (press release)
  

February 2020

• Area requirements to safeguard Earth's marine species (press release)
• Set a global target for ecosystems (comment) (press release)
  
• Moving from biodiversity offsets to a target‐based approach for ecological compensation (press release)

January 2020

• Intense human pressure is widespread across terrestrial vertebrate ranges (press release)

December 2019

• Implementing a social-ecological systems framework for conservation monitoring: lessons from a multi-country coral reef program (press release)
• Global no net loss of natural ecosystems (press release)
  

October 2019

• Global health leaders issue urgent call for united effort to stop diseases threatening all life on Earth (press release)