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Beneficial Spillover Effects of Antipredation Interventions Support Human–Carnivore Coexistence 反捕食干预的有益溢出效应支持人类与食肉动物共存

IF 7.7 1区环境科学与生态学

Conservation Letters Pub Date : 2025-03-06 DOI: 10.1111/conl.13085

Jonathan Salerno, Rekha Warrier, Stewart W. Breck, Neil H. Carter, Joel Berger, Brendan J. Barrett, Justine Robert Lukumay, Joseph Francis Kaduma, Ana Grau, Amy J. Dickman, Kevin R. Crooks

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A Survey of Mammal and Fish Genetic Diversity Across the Global Protected Area Network 全球保护区网络中哺乳动物和鱼类遗传多样性调查

IF 7.7 1区环境科学与生态学

Conservation Letters Pub Date : 2025-03-03 DOI: 10.1111/conl.13092

Chloé Schmidt, Eleana Karachaliou, Amy G. Vandergast, Eric D. Crandall, Jeff Falgout, Margaret E. Hunter, Francine Kershaw, Deborah M. Leigh, David O'Brien, Ivan Paz-Vinas, Gernot Segelbacher, Colin J. Garroway

{"title":"A Survey of Mammal and Fish Genetic Diversity Across the Global Protected Area Network","authors":"Chloé Schmidt, Eleana Karachaliou, Amy G. Vandergast, Eric D. Crandall, Jeff Falgout, Margaret E. Hunter, Francine Kershaw, Deborah M. Leigh, David O'Brien, Ivan Paz-Vinas, Gernot Segelbacher, Colin J. Garroway","doi":"10.1111/conl.13092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.13092","url":null,"abstract":"Global conservation targets aim to expand protected areas and maintain species’ genetic diversity. Whether protected areas capture genetic diversity is unclear. We examined this question using a global sample of nuclear population-level microsatellite data comprising genotypes from 2513 sites, 134,183 individuals, and 176 mammal and marine fish species. The genetic diversity and differentiation of samples inside and outside protected areas were similar, with some evidence for higher diversity in protected areas for small-bodied mammals. Mammal populations, particularly large species, tended to be more genetically diverse when near multiple protected areas, regardless of whether samples were collected in or outside protected areas. Older marine protected areas tended to capture more genetically diverse fish populations. However, limited data availability in many regions hinders the systematic incorporation of genetic diversity into protected area design. Focusing on minimizing population decline and maintaining connectivity between protected areas remain essential proxies for maintaining genetic diversity.","PeriodicalId":157,"journal":{"name":"Conservation Letters","volume":"18 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/conl.13092","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143533473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Flexible Climate Adaptation Can Substantially Reduce Conservation Costs and Mitigate Risk 灵活的气候适应可以大大降低保护成本并减轻风险

IF 7.7 1区环境科学与生态学

Conservation Letters Pub Date : 2025-02-25 DOI: 10.1111/conl.13084

Frankie H. T. Cho, Brooke A. Williams, Carla L. Archibald, James Brazill-Boast, Michael J. Drielsma, Daniel Lunney, Jonathan R. Rhodes

{"title":"Flexible Climate Adaptation Can Substantially Reduce Conservation Costs and Mitigate Risk","authors":"Frankie H. T. Cho, Brooke A. Williams, Carla L. Archibald, James Brazill-Boast, Michael J. Drielsma, Daniel Lunney, Jonathan R. Rhodes","doi":"10.1111/conl.13084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.13084","url":null,"abstract":"Climate change will have profound and unexpected impacts on biodiversity in the future. These impacts could potentially be mitigated through adaptive and responsive conservation planning, but it remains unclear how adaptation opportunities can be harnessed through careful planning of present-day activities. Here, we show that the use of flexible conservation strategies that exploit opportunities for climate adaptation can mitigate climate risks without increasing total conservation costs. We estimate the value of allowing flexible delays of conservation investments for protecting habitats of the iconic and threatened koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) in eastern Australia. Conservation strategies that have no option to strategically delay investments face significant trade-offs between minimizing conservation costs and reducing risks in conservation outcomes. These trade-offs are substantially mitigated by flexible strategies that strategically delay investments into the future when the effects of climate change are likely to be better understood. Strategic delays are shown to mitigate climate risks in inflexible conservation strategies without even increasing conservation costs. These results show that conservation planning that strategically allocates present-day conservation resources while also allowing the flexibility to shift these resources in the future is much more likely to achieve cost-effective conservation outcomes in the face of uncertain climate change impacts.","PeriodicalId":157,"journal":{"name":"Conservation Letters","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/conl.13084","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143481440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Rewilding and Indigenous Community-Led Land Care 野生化和土著社区主导的土地保护

IF 7.7 1区环境科学与生态学

Conservation Letters Pub Date : 2025-02-18 DOI: 10.1111/conl.13090

Tristan T. Derham, Freya Mathews, Christopher. N. Johnson

{"title":"Rewilding and Indigenous Community-Led Land Care","authors":"Tristan T. Derham, Freya Mathews, Christopher. N. Johnson","doi":"10.1111/conl.13090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.13090","url":null,"abstract":"In the 1990s, pioneers of rewilding described a bold vision of wilderness connected at the continental scale, with thriving populations of large, wild animals. Much of the resulting discourse has emphasized uninhabited places or has promoted a “hands-off” approach to environmental management. This clashes with many Indigenous (e.g., First Nations) perspectives and has made rewilding largely irrelevant to Indigenous communities, especially in colonized countries. Yet rewilding can support Indigenous community aspirations for sovereignty, health, and justice. Moreover, Indigenous communities and their traditional ecological knowledge are vital to conservation. We suggest two principles by which rewilding can align with, and support, Indigenous communities: shifting focus from wilderness to the creative agency of wild beings, and framing restoration as a collaborative endeavor between humans and wildlife. As an approach to conservation policy and practice, rewilding should seek opportunities to place Indigenous communities in leadership positions, in terms of both practical restoration and the conceptual reshaping of rewilding itself. We relate two case studies of Indigenous community-led conservation which exemplify the potential of such an approach: the Buffalo Treaty in North America, and the Lungtalanana Cultural Restoration Project in southern Australia.","PeriodicalId":157,"journal":{"name":"Conservation Letters","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/conl.13090","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143431738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A New Seafood Import Policy for Nations to Combat Illegal Fishing 各国打击非法捕鱼的新海产品进口政策

IF 7.7 1区环境科学与生态学

Conservation Letters Pub Date : 2025-02-17 DOI: 10.1111/conl.13091

Leslie Roberson, Gilles Hosch, Chris Wilcox, Rosa Mar Domiguez-Martinez, Glenn Sant, Carissa Klein

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The Illegal Trade in Live Western Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) in Guinea-Bissau and Proposed Conservation Management Actions 几内亚比绍活体西部黑猩猩（Pan troglodytes verus）的非法贸易和拟议的保护管理行动

IF 7.7 1区环境科学与生态学

Conservation Letters Pub Date : 2025-02-12 DOI: 10.1111/conl.13087

Maria Joana Ferreira da Silva, Aissa Regalla

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Mismatch Between Global Importance of Peatlands and the Extent of Their Protection 泥炭地的全球重要性与保护程度之间的不匹配

IF 7.7 1区环境科学与生态学

Conservation Letters Pub Date : 2025-02-12 DOI: 10.1111/conl.13080

Kemen G. Austin, Paul R Elsen, Euridice N. Honorio Coronado, Alfred DeGemmis, Angela V. Gallego-Sala, Lorna Harris, Heidi E. Kretser, Joe R. Melton, Daniel Murdiyarso, Sigit D. Sasmito, Erin Swails, Arief Wijaya, R. Scott Winton, Dan Zarin

{"title":"Mismatch Between Global Importance of Peatlands and the Extent of Their Protection","authors":"Kemen G. Austin, Paul R Elsen, Euridice N. Honorio Coronado, Alfred DeGemmis, Angela V. Gallego-Sala, Lorna Harris, Heidi E. Kretser, Joe R. Melton, Daniel Murdiyarso, Sigit D. Sasmito, Erin Swails, Arief Wijaya, R. Scott Winton, Dan Zarin","doi":"10.1111/conl.13080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.13080","url":null,"abstract":"Global peatlands store more carbon than all the world's forests biomass on just 3% of the planet's land surface. Failure to address mounting threats to peatland ecosystems will jeopardize critical climate targets and exacerbate biodiversity loss. Our analysis reveals that 17% of peatlands are protected globally—substantially less than many other high-value ecosystems. Just 11% percent of boreal and 27% of temperate and tropical peatlands are protected, while Indigenous peoples' lands encompass at least another one-quarter of peatlands globally. Peatlands in protected areas and Indigenous peoples' lands generally face lower human pressure than outside those areas. Yet, almost half of temperate and tropical peatlands in protected areas still experience medium to high human pressure. Country submissions of Nationally Determined Contributions under the Paris Agreement and National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plans under the Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework could help catalyze actions and secure funding for peatland conservation, including support for the Indigenous stewardship that is critical to protect many of the world's highest priority peatland areas.","PeriodicalId":157,"journal":{"name":"Conservation Letters","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/conl.13080","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143397141","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Bats as a Model for Enhancing IUCN Red List Assessments: Real-Time Data, Contributor Networks, and Specialized Training to Address Common Challenges 蝙蝠是加强世界自然保护联盟红色名录评估的典范：实时数据、贡献者网络和专业培训应对共同挑战

IF 7.7 1区环境科学与生态学

Conservation Letters Pub Date : 2025-02-12 DOI: 10.1111/conl.13089

Danilo Russo, Luca Cistrone, David L. Waldien

{"title":"Bats as a Model for Enhancing IUCN Red List Assessments: Real-Time Data, Contributor Networks, and Specialized Training to Address Common Challenges","authors":"Danilo Russo, Luca Cistrone, David L. Waldien","doi":"10.1111/conl.13089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.13089","url":null,"abstract":"The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species is a critical tool in global conservation, providing essential information on species' conservation status worldwide. However, the current assessment process faces several challenges, including data gaps, standard inconsistencies across taxonomic groups, and a limited assessor pool. Data gaps are common for many taxa, particularly those more difficult to observe or identify with wide, fragmented ranges. We use bats as a model to highlight challenges and propose solutions relevant to many taxonomic groups. Basic presence data and population estimates are often missing, with critical information unpublished or inaccessible for assessments. Assessors are responsible for reviewing all available information, seeking advice from local or taxon-specific experts, and compiling a comprehensive species status assessment. We propose a network of regional operators, researchers, and stakeholders who could regularly contribute updated data on populations, threats, and conservation actions, employing a dynamic real-time repository. This approach would enable assessors to access an up-to-date overview, improving the Red List assessments' efficiency, accuracy, and consistency. Expanding assessors and training early-career professionals would also standardize evaluation criteria and reduce subjectivity. By capitalizing on IUCN's training expertise, these changes aim to enhance the robustness of assessments, supporting more effective, evidence-based conservation.","PeriodicalId":157,"journal":{"name":"Conservation Letters","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/conl.13089","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143389255","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Integrating GPS-Tracked Sentinel Species Into the Fight Against Wildlife Poisoning 将gps追踪的哨兵物种整合到对抗野生动物中毒的斗争中

IF 7.7 1区环境科学与生态学

Conservation Letters Pub Date : 2025-02-11 DOI: 10.1111/conl.13086

Jorge Rodríguez-Pérez, Elena Bravo-Chaparro, María Fernández-García, José Carlos González, Gerardo Báguena, Pablo González-Quirós, José Vicente López-Bao, Patricia Mateo-Tomás

{"title":"Integrating GPS-Tracked Sentinel Species Into the Fight Against Wildlife Poisoning","authors":"Jorge Rodríguez-Pérez, Elena Bravo-Chaparro, María Fernández-García, José Carlos González, Gerardo Báguena, Pablo González-Quirós, José Vicente López-Bao, Patricia Mateo-Tomás","doi":"10.1111/conl.13086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.13086","url":null,"abstract":"The cryptic nature of wildlife crimes challenges the detection and implementation of effective prevention and prosecution measures. Allocating often limited resources will benefit from increasing detectability through evidence-informed integration of sentinel GPS-tracked species. We illustrate this by analyzing the spatial use of 25 GPS-tracked griffons and 26 reintroduced bearded vultures with anti-poison canine unit patrols and a wildlife poisoning risk map in NW Spain. Vultures’ spatial use greatly correlated with high-risk areas, highlighting their role in detecting poisoning events and guiding preventive anti-poison patrolling, allowing us to approach a zonation scheme to optimize efforts in this regard. We identified poisoning hotspots where sentinel and anti-poison canine units should be reinforced and high-risk areas with low sentinel monitoring where on-ground efforts should be increased. While emphasizing the potential of GPS-tracked vultures as sentinels, our results offer an example of strategic integration to prioritize interventions and enhance their effectiveness against wildlife crimes.","PeriodicalId":157,"journal":{"name":"Conservation Letters","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/conl.13086","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143389349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Reconciling Different Forms of Ecological Integrity to Aid the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework 协调不同形式的生态完整性以协助昆明-蒙特利尔全球生物多样性框架

IF 7.7 1区环境科学与生态学

Conservation Letters Pub Date : 2025-02-10 DOI: 10.1111/conl.13088

Valeria Y. Mendez Angarita, Peter Bille Larsen, Lara Marcolin, Moreno Di Marco

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