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Achieving global biodiversity goals by 2050 requires urgent and integrated actions
Human impacts on the Earth’s biosphere are driving the global biodiversity crisis. Governments are preparing to agree on a set of actions intended to halt the loss of biodiversity and put it on a path to recovery by 2050. We provide evidence that the proposed actions can bend the curve for biodiversity, but only if these actions are implemented urgently and in an integrated manner.
Paul Leadley, Cornelia Krug, David Obura, Lynne Shannon, Andrew Gonzalez, Maria Cecilia Londoño-Murcia, Adriana Radulovici, Katie Millette, Aleksandar Rankovic, Emma Archer, Frederick Ato Armah, Nic Bax, Anchor Kutchhi, Mark John Costello, Liliana M. Dávalos, Fabio de Oliveira Roque, Fabrice DeClerck, Laura Dee, Franz Essl, Simon Ferrier, Shizuka Hashimoto, Chinwe Ifejika Speranza, Forest Isbell, Marcel Kok, Shane Lavery, David Leclère, Rafael Loyola, Shuaib Lwasa, Melodie McGeoch, Akira S. Mori, Emily Nicholson, Jose Manuel Ochoa, Kinga Öllerer, Stephen Polasky, Carlo Rondinini, Odirilwe Selomane, Bernardo Strassburg, Rashid Sumaila, Derek P. Tittensor, Eren Turak, Luis Urbina, Maria Vallejos, Ella Vázquez-Domínguez, Peter Verburg, Piero Visconti, Stephen Woodley, Sean Jellesmark
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Achieving global biodiversity goals by 2050 requires urgent and integrated actions
Los fantasmas del desarrollo pasado. Deforestación y coca en la Amazonía occidental
For decades coca cultivation has been proposed as a cause of deforestation and attractor of migration to the forest frontier of western …
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Los fantasmas del desarrollo pasado. Deforestación y coca en la Amazonía occidental
Fire-induced loss of the world’s most biodiverse forests in Latin America
Fire plays a dominant role in deforestation, particularly in the tropics, but the relative extent of transformations and influence of …
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Fire-induced loss of the world’s most biodiverse forests in Latin America
Pandemics’ historical role in creating inequality
In her News Feature “An unequal blow” (15 May, p. 700), L. Wade explores how past pandemics disproportionately affected marginalized …
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Pandemics’ historical role in creating inequality
Curb land grabbing to save the Amazon
Journal letter to the editor. Despite international conservation efforts 1, deforestation in the Amazon continues apace. While the …
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Curb land grabbing to save the Amazon
Fires in protected areas reveal unforseen costs of Colombian peace
Armed conflict, and its end, can have powerful effects on natural resources, but the influence of war and peace on highly biodiverse …
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Fires in protected areas reveal unforseen costs of Colombian peace
The Ghosts of Development Past: Deforestation and Coca in Western Amazonia
For decades coca cultivation has been proposed as a cause of deforestation and attractor of migration to the forest frontier of western …
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The Origins of Cocaine: Colonization and Failed Development in the Amazon Andes
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Spatial autocorrelation reduces model precision and predictive power in deforestation analyses
Generalized linear models are often used to identify covariates of landscape processes and to model land‐use change. Generalized linear …
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Deforestation and Coca Cultivation Rooted in Twentieth-Century Development Projects
Most of the world’s coca—the source of cocaine—is grown in the Amazonian forests of Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia. As cultivation …
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