A Forest Monitoring System for Tanzania by Elikana John, Pete Bunting, Andy Hardy, Dos Santos Silayo, Edgar Masunga

“…However, the distribution and condition of tropical forests are under significant pressure, causing shrinkage and risking biodiversity loss across the tropics. Tanzania is currently undergoing significant forest cover changes, but monitoring is limited, in part due to a lack of remote sensing knowledge, tools and methods. …”
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Agro-biodiversity has increased over a 95 year period at sub-regional and regional scales in southern Quebec, Canada by D Renard, E M Bennett, J M Rhemtulla

“…Decline in agricultural biodiversity (cultivated species and wild species used for food or that support agro-ecosystem functioning) at the farm scale has fueled concerns about potential negative effects of this biodiversity loss on the ecological and economic sustainability of agro-ecosystems. …”
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Eight arguments why biodiversity is important to safeguard food security by Peter Dannenberg, Boris Braun, Clemens Greiner, Alexander Follmann, Michaela Haug, Pujo Semedi Hargo Yuwono, Markus Stetter, Thomas Widlok, Stanislav Kopriva

“…In this context, supposedly purely environmental challenges like biodiversity loss have often been deprioritized and solutions to tackle them are publicly or quietly postponed (again and again). …”
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Wildlife Emergency Response Services Data Provide Insights into Human and Non-Human Threats to Wildlife and the Response to Those Threats by Elodie C. M. Camprasse, Matthias Klapperstueck, Adam P. A. Cardilini

“…Globally, wildlife is interacting with humans or impacted by human activities, which often results in negative outcomes such as population declines, disruption of social bonds, biodiversity loss, imperilment of threatened species, and harm to individual animals. …”
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Effects of vegetation structure on avian biodiversity in a selectively logged hill dipterocarp forest by Syed Hassan, Sharifah Nur Atikah, Yahya, Muhammad Syafiq, Ahmad Razi, Norhisham, Kamarudin, Norizah, Sanusi, Ruzana, Md Sharif, Badrul Azhar

“…The establishment of protected areas is an effective tool to mitigate further forest biodiversity loss. However, the ability of degraded rainforest to support avian biodiversity is still remain little known. …”
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La crise de biodiversité à l’épreuve de l’action publique néolibérale by Clémence Guimont, Rémy Petitimbert, Bruno Villalba

“…This text introduces the special section « Biodiversity loss, New Public Management and neoliberalism ». …”
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Molecular biology for green recovery-A call for action. by Marta Rodríguez-Martínez, Jens Nielsen, Sam Dupont, Jessica Vamathevan, Beverley J Glover, Lindsey C Crosswell, Brendan Rouse, Ben F Luisi, Chris Bowler, Susan M Gasser, Detlev Arendt, Tobias J Erb, Victor de Lorenzo, Edith Heard, Kiran Raosaheb Patil

“…Molecular biology holds a vast potential for tackling climate change and biodiversity loss. Yet, it is largely absent from the current strategies. …”
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Out of the Woods? by Romy Klimke

“…<p>Large-scale deforestation not only accelerates climate change and biodiversity loss, it is also a serious threat to human rights. …”
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Integrating tropical research into biology education is urgently needed. by Ann E Russell, T Mitchell Aide, Elizabeth Braker, Emilio M Bruna, Carissa N Ganong, Rebecca D Hardin, Karen D Holl, Sara C Hotchkiss, Jeffrey A Klemens, Erin K Kuprewicz, Deedra McClearn, George Middendorf, Rebecca Ostertag, Jennifer S Powers, Sabrina E Russo, Jennifer L Stynoski, Ursula Valdez, Charles G Willis

“…Understanding tropical biology is important for solving complex problems such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and zoonotic pandemics, but biology curricula view research mostly via a temperate-zone lens. …”
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Eco-Friendly Wood Composites: Design, Characterization and Applications by Viktor Savov, Petar Antov, Yonghui Zhou, Pavlo Bekhta

“…The ongoing transition from a linear to a circular, low-carbon bioeconomy is crucial for reducing the consumption of global natural resources, minimizing waste generation, reducing carbon emissions, and creating more sustainable growth and jobs, the prerequisites necessary to achieve climate neutrality targets and stop biodiversity loss [...]…”
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Linking the influence and dependence of people on biodiversity across scales by Isbell, F, Gonzalez, A, Loreau, M, Cowles, J, Diaz, S, Hector, A, Mace, G, Wardle, D, O'Connor, M, Duffy, J, Turnbull, L, Thompson, P, Lariguaderie, A

“…Human dependence and influence on biodiversity have mainly been studied separately and at contrasting scales of space and time, but new multiscale knowledge is beginning to link these relationships. Biodiversity loss substantially diminishes several ecosystem services by altering ecosystem functioning and stability, perhaps especially at the large scales most relevant for policy and conservation.…”

Intraspecific demographic and trait responses to environmental change drivers are linked in two species of ciliate by Tessa de Bruin, Frederik De Laender, Julie Jadoul, Nicolas Schtickzelle

“…Abstract Background Over the past decade, theory and observations have suggested intraspecific variation, trait-based differences within species, as a buffer against biodiversity loss from multiple environmental changes. …”
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Optimizing protected areas to boost the conservation of key protected wildlife in China by Chunrong Mi, Kai Song, Liang Ma, Jiliang Xu, Baojun Sun, Yuehua Sun, Jianguo Liu, Weiguo Du

“…To meet the challenge of biodiversity loss and reach the targets of the proposed Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, the Chinese government updated the list of national key protected wildlife in 2021 and has been continually expanding the protected areas (PAs). …”
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Mainstreaming the Ambition, Coherence, and Comprehensiveness of the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework Into Conservation Policy by Carlos Carroll, Daniel J. Rohlf, Yaffa Epstein

“…We focus on three characteristics of the GBF which are essential if policy is to effectively motivate and guide efforts to halt and reverse biodiversity loss: comprehensiveness, coherence, and ambition. …”
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Environmental research infrastructures are not (yet) ready to address ecosystem conservation challenge by Francisco J Bonet-García, Francisco Pando, María Suárez-Muñoz, Javier Cabello

“…This paper presents the first assessment of the alignment between the services provided by environmental RIs, and the knowledge requested to address three specific Global Challenges concerning biodiversity loss at a global level: threatened species, alien species and ecosystem conservation. …”
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GC Insights: Fostering transformative change for biodiversity restoration through transdisciplinary research by B. Ekberzade, A. R. Carrasco, A. Izdebski, A. Sofo, A. Larsen, F. O. Akinyemi, V. J. Bruckman, N. Baker, S. Clark, C. Hill

“…Despite being considered a pressing global risk with several international efforts to protect and to restore, biodiversity loss and the degradation of ecosystems continue at an alarming rate. …”
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How does the professionalisation of farmer collectives enable effective agri-environmental schemes? A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis of 36 Dutch farmer collectives by L. Dik, G. Bazzan, C.J.A.M. Termeer, H.A.C. Runhaar

“…Agriculture is the main land use and one of the main drivers of biodiversity loss. In particular, intensive farming practices have contributed to biodiversity loss, which is why many governments have implemented agri-environmental schemes (AES). …”
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Best practice mechanisms for biodiversity conservation law and policy by Callum Brockett, Katie Woolaston, Felicity Deane, Fran Humphries, Ethan Kumar, Amanda Kennedy, Justine Bell-James

“…However, the law is necessary to regulate the human-environment interactions that form the basis of the drivers of extinction and biodiversity loss, including land-clearing, the discharge of greenhouse gases and the introduction of invasive species. …”
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Dead Shells Bring to Life Baselines for Conservation: Case Studies from The Bahamas, Southern California, and Wisconsin, USA by Andrew V. Michelson, Julian J. Spergel, Katalina C. Kimball, Lisa Park Boush, Jill S. Leonard-Pingel

“…We are living in a time of rapid biodiversity loss. Numerous studies have shown that modern extinction rates are higher than pre-human background rates. …”
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Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency by Kamran Abbasi, Parveen Ali, Virginia Barbour, Thomas Benfield, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, Stephen Hancocks, Richard Horton, Laurie Laybourn-Langton, Robert Mash, Peush Sahni, Wadeia Mohammad Sharief, Abdullah Shehab, Paul Yonga, Chris Zielinski

“…Over 200 health journals call on the United Nations, political leaders, and health professionals to recognise that climate change and biodiversity loss are one indivisible crisis and must be tackled together to preserve health and avoid catastrophe. …”
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