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{"title":"Does hunting benefit wildlife conservation?","authors":"Jerrold L Belant, Kevin C Elliott, Jacob E Hill, Kenneth F Kellner","doi":"10.1002/fee.2864","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2864","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Considerable debate surrounds whether hunting, especially “trophy” hunting, benefits wildlife conservation (eg Hare <i>et al</i>. <span>2023</span>). Although hunting has adversely impacted some species historically and currently, we contend that hunting can also benefit wildlife conservation, defined here as the long-term, sustainable maintenance of wildlife species and their habitat. We suggest broadly that hunting supports wildlife conservation when the long-term benefits to wildlife exceed the long-term costs thereof.</p><p>Hunting benefits wildlife conservation in several ways, one of which is by reducing land-use change. When land is conserved primarily for hunting and is not substantially altered for other uses (eg crop or livestock agriculture, human development), hunting can facilitate the protection of land and the biodiversity and ecosystem processes therein. Another way is by reducing wildlife hyperabundance. The harvest of individuals from populations that exceed ecological carrying capacity can offset the impacts of overherbivory by some ungulate species and corresponding loss of plant biodiversity (Reed <i>et al</i>. <span>2022</span>). Hunting also has the potential to limit disease transmission or disease prevalence. For example, the prevalence of chronic wasting disease in mule deer (<i>Odocoileus hemionus</i>) was reduced after increased harvests of male deer (Conner <i>et al</i>. <span>2021</span>).</p><p>In addition, by funding anti-poaching efforts, hunting can help to reduce illegal harvests of wildlife. In parts of Africa, anti-poaching efforts are often supported by—and in some countries like Zambia, required of—hunting outfitters (Lewis and Alpert <span>1997</span>). A moratorium on legal hunting in Botswana reportedly resulted in an increase in poaching incidents (Mbaiwa <span>2018</span>). Perhaps counterintuitively, limited, selective harvest of certain threatened species can aid in their protection. For instance, revenues generated from highly regulated sustainable harvests of a few, typically older male, black rhinos (<i>Diceros bicornis</i>) have benefitted, as opposed to compromised, species recovery and habitat conservation (‘t Sas-Rolfes <i>et al</i>. <span>2022</span>). A moratorium on hunting rhinos is expected to adversely impact rhino conservation (‘t Sas-Rolfes <i>et al</i>. <span>2022</span>). Other forms of economic support for wildlife conservation may also originate from hunting. In the US, the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act of 1937 generated almost $1.2 billion (all monetary values are expressed in US dollars) from taxation on firearms and hunting equipment during 2023 alone, of which about $962 million was allocated to wildlife management and conservation (USFWS <span>2023</span>); likewise, fees associated with hunting licenses generated about $1.1 billion in 2024 (USFWS <span>2025</span>), which was used by state agencies largely for wildlife conservation.</p><p>Local economies can al","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"23 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/fee.2864","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144927496","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}

{"title":"Cultivating curiosity","authors":"Paul J CaraDonna, Nicholas N Dorian, Dylan T Simpson, Mark EK Dorf","doi":"10.1002/fee.2863","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2863","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Dust settled as we stepped out of the car. A kinglet chattered in an alligator juniper. We (three ecologists and a conceptual media artist) had just arrived at our field sites in the Santa Catalina Mountains outside of Tucson, Arizona. Our bags were packed with vials and nets, forceps and paint pens, cameras and notebooks. We were there to investigate how a small metallic-green bee makes a living in a rapidly changing world. We had worked in this mid-elevation desert shrubland before and we knew of its natural history. Our starting point would be to look for flowering manzanita shrubs, which are the only plants in bloom this time of year and serve as the bees’ exclusive food source.</p><p>We surveyed the dry hills, examining hundreds of manzanita shrubs. But after nearly twenty hours of searching, we could not find a single flower, let alone a single bee. Field work does not always go according to plan, but this was extreme. As we came to the realization that all the flower buds had aborted this year because of drought, our confusion shifted to despair. We had received funding for a multi-year project contingent on finding these flowers and the bees that forage from them. If there were no flowers this year, then a population crash for the bees seemed plausible, and our entire project might very well be jeopardized.</p><p>Unsure of our next steps, we wandered and wondered. At first, our conversations attempted to reconcile what we were seeing with our prior understanding of the system. But as we slowed down, our confusion and despair morphed into inquiry and curiosity. What was actually going on here? Had the bees emerged and died? Or instead dispersed, flying epic distances in search of a manzanita oasis? Had they sensed portending drought and entered dormancy, skipping the dry year altogether? Maybe they had emerged and were hiding in plain sight? Digging into any of these hypotheses would teach us new things about how these organisms make—or do not make—a living in a rapidly changing world.</p><p>Many months and miles removed from The Catalinas, we continued to ruminate on the enduring and grounding value of cultivating curiosity in our practice. From one perspective, our expedition was a fruitless failure, but from another, it delivered in abundance. We asked questions that we had not planned on asking; we imagined experiments that we could not have otherwise imagined; and we were able to chart a path forward that was rooted firmly in our observations of time and place. We had found ourselves with an entirely different set of ideas, studies, and experiments that would help propel the project forward.</p><p>Confronting uncertainty head-on can be confusing, slow, and uncomfortable; and it can also be at odds with the very real incentive structures (jobs, promotions, grants) and value systems (publications, grants, citations) that shape our practice in the product-oriented culture of contemporary science. But engaging with this discomfort can ","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"23 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/fee.2863","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144927728","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}

{"title":"Professional sport organizations as potential champions of biodiversity conservation","authors":"Ugo Arbieu, Céline Bellard, Corey JA Bradshaw, Ricardo A Correia, Pierre Courtois, Enrico Di Minin, Ivan Jarić, Boris Leroy, Jessica R Murfree, Madeleine Orr, Samuel Roturier, Melanie Sartore-Baldwin, Diogo Veríssimo, Franck Courchamp","doi":"10.1002/fee.2862","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2862","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Biodiversity loss is a global crisis, human-driven species extinction rates are higher than ever before, and these rates are expected to worsen. This calls for new socioeconomic business models that could inspire societal transformations benefitting biodiversity conservation and restoration. The emblems of sport organizations are often articulated around the central figure of a wildlife species. Such species occupy an important part of the cultural space and can therefore serve as important flagship species for conservation through sport, particularly those most threatened with extinction (Courchamp <i>et al</i>. <span>2018</span>). At the intersection of two hitherto unrelated realms (ie sport and conservation), there are potentially important synergies that are unique to the sport sector among three groups of stakeholders: professional team-sport organizations, fan communities, and biodiversity conservationists (Figure 1).</p><p>Despite growing willingness to act in favor of the environment, sport stakeholders lack connections with and support from conservation experts to design evidence-based interventions. Hence, biodiversity conservation is not yet a priority on the sustainability agenda of professional sport organizations. There are win–win strategies for mobilizing sport stakeholders for biodiversity conservation: connecting fans’ enthusiasm for sport, the symbolic attachment to wildlife emblems, and the imperative of biodiversity conservation (Figure 1). These strategies combine three stakes: (i) conservationists need greater support and resources to protect wildlife, (ii) sport fans benefit from a solid connection with their team, and (iii) sport organizations rely on loyal fans and high brand value.</p><p>Our inability to halt the degradation of biodiversity echoes the low support from the general public, the increasing disconnection between people and nature, and the chronic underfunding and lack of ambition in conservation strategies (Barbier <i>et al</i>. <span>2018</span>). Animal imagery is a powerful cultural driver of wildlife perceptions, can strengthen connection with nature, and so plays an important role in conservation marketing aimed at raising biodiversity awareness and financial resources. Hence, ubiquitous animal imagery in the sport industry could promote flagship species whose traits (ecological, physiognomic, or cultural) resonate with sport communities, and whose conservation could attract support for broader conservation targets (Veríssimo <i>et al</i>. <span>2011</span>). For instance, the lion (<i>Panthera leo</i>) is the most frequently used animal emblem across team sports, is highly charismatic, and yet is threatened with extinction (Courchamp <i>et al</i>. <span>2018</span>), making it a potent flagship species for many ecosystems.</p><p>Animals selected to represent strength, courage, or independence were first used as good luck charms for sport fans, and became an integral part of team identities and lega","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"23 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/fee.2862","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144751648","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}

{"title":"Drought and deluge—opportunities for climate-change adaptation in US national parks","authors":"Meagan F Oldfather,&nbsp;Amber N Runyon,&nbsp;Kyra Clark-Wolf,&nbsp;Wynne E Moss,&nbsp;Imtiaz Rangwala,&nbsp;Anthony Ciocco,&nbsp;Aparna Bamzai-Dodson,&nbsp;Helen R Sofaer,&nbsp;Brian W Miller","doi":"10.1002/fee.2858","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2858","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In a changing climate, resource management depends on anticipating changes and considering uncertainties. To facilitate effective decision making on public lands, we regionally summarized the magnitude and uncertainty of projected change in management-relevant climate variables for 332 national park units across the contiguous US. Temperature, frequency of extreme precipitation events, and drought exposure are all projected to increase within seven regions delineated in the US National Climate Assessment. In particular, the anticipated collective impacts of droughts and flooding events will lead to unique management challenges, including combinations of management actions that may seem inconsistent. Furthermore, uncertainty in the magnitude of change varied by region and climate variable considered, pointing to specific opportunities for prioritization, transferability, and innovation of climate adaptation regionally and at the park-unit scale.</p>","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"23 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/fee.2858","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144927773","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}

{"title":"Managing ecosystem damage from extreme events","authors":"Virginia H Dale,&nbsp;Steven P Norman,&nbsp;Rebecca A Efroymson","doi":"10.1002/fee.2855","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2855","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;Large disturbances to ecosystems can severely impact the stability of a region's natural resources, habitats, and outdoor recreation. Because extreme events can be large and relatively infrequent, they test institutional capacity to support recovery and restoration. When hurricanes and other large-scale disturbances like wildfires occur, much of the impacted landscape receives little to no active management. Ecosystems are often allowed to either recover or transition without much direct intervention, and successional dynamics are sometimes altered by novel invasive species, management history, or other environmental changes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Recovery and restoration are especially challenging for landscapes with highly fragmented private ownership, such as the forests of the eastern US. Acting alone, non-industrial private forest landowners have little capacity to effectively respond to unexpected forest loss and to oversee forest recovery, as the scale of actions needed after extreme events may require cooperation across ownerships or jurisdictions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In September 2024, Hurricane Helene exposed these underlying vulnerabilities of southern Appalachian forests. In western North Carolina alone, about 196,000 hectares of forest received major damage from Hurricane Helene, with most impacts occurring on private lands and in unusually large blowdown patches with no known regional precedent. Not since the widespread forest loss of the late 19th and early 20th centuries due to extensive logging and the American chestnut blight have so few trees covered the region's slopes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This enormous damage to southern Appalachian forests raises concerns about loss of wildlife habitat, increased wildfire risks due to the abundance of fuel, reduced water quality from erosion and sedimentation, and spread of invasive species. Damaged forests are likely to reestablish as novel ecosystems composed of new species assemblages with a suite of interactions and processes that differ from prior conditions. On public and private lands, the duration of forest recovery will take decades or more and will be highly dependent on management choices and market incentives.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Since Hurricane Helene, disaster relief crews continue to work hard to remove fallen trees and debris near structures, roads, trails, and recreation areas as time and funds are available. However, removing downed and damaged wood is more costly and dangerous than typical forest harvesting. Piles of downed, unused wood may be burned, but combustion releases smoke and carbon into the atmosphere. Historically, debris burning and arson are the region's primary sources of wildfire ignitions, and it is hard to control burns when so many of the surrounding forests have high flammability.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A major dilemma is what to do with all this downed wood and debris from Hurricane Helene and how to pay for its removal. There is ongoing timber demand for large intact boles, at least where they can be accessed, but demand i","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"23 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/fee.2855","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144751549","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}

{"title":"How can China curb biological invasions to meet Kunming-Montreal Target 6?","authors":"Rui-Ting Ju,&nbsp;Xiting Gui,&nbsp;John Measey,&nbsp;Qiang He,&nbsp;Xiaoqing Xian,&nbsp;Jianguo Liu,&nbsp;William J Sutherland,&nbsp;Bo Li,&nbsp;Jihua Wu","doi":"10.1002/fee.2853","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2853","url":null,"abstract":"<p>To meet Kunming-Montreal Target 6 of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), we argue that more comprehensive measures are needed to manage invasive alien species (IAS), which is especially true for China, given that it is undergoing an unprecedented wave of invasions due to its rapid development. Here, we consider the status of IAS in China, evaluate China's ongoing countermeasures against IAS, and provide recommendations for improving management. In total, 802 IAS have been identified in China. Facing the growing threats of IAS, China has made progress in IAS management, but more stringent and thorough measures are still required. In addition to improving legislation and governance, China should strengthen transdisciplinary and proactive research, implement more comprehensive prevention and control actions against IAS, and enhance international cooperation and translational education. By creating a model for IAS management that other countries can follow, China's efforts can contribute substantially to the CBD's Kunming-Montreal 2030 Global Targets.</p>","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"23 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144927764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Functionalizing ecological integrity: using functional ecology to monitor animal communities","authors":"Ana Miller-ter Kuile,&nbsp;Jamie S Sanderlin,&nbsp;Jessalyn Ayars,&nbsp;Helen E Chmura,&nbsp;Melissa Dressen,&nbsp;Jessie D Golding,&nbsp;Gavin M Jones,&nbsp;Rebecca Kirby,&nbsp;Kari EA Norman,&nbsp;Zachary L Steel,&nbsp;Valerie Stein Foster","doi":"10.1002/fee.2852","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2852","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Ecological integrity—the degree to which an ecosystem supports ecological structure, composition, diversity, function, and connectivity typical of natural conditions—has been a guiding principle in ecosystem monitoring around the world. However, in terrestrial ecosystems, integrity-based monitoring often excludes animal communities, even though they are critical drivers of integrity. Methodological advances in monitoring and data science have made it easier to document animal communities. We highlight examples of these advances and how they remove barriers to adopting animal-specific integrity metrics. We then illustrate how describing animal communities in terms of functional ecology, which has also undergone substantial development over the past several decades, can provide a generalizable approach to incorporating animal communities into integrity-based monitoring across taxa and ecosystems. Incorporating animal communities into ecological integrity monitoring is a vital step toward understanding how human-driven change, restoration, and conservation shape terrestrial ecosystems worldwide.</p>","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"23 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144927765","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Moving beyond continents for global and inclusive science","authors":"Ivan Jarić,&nbsp;Christophe Diagne,&nbsp;Shawan Chowdhury","doi":"10.1002/fee.2851","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2851","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;Global science suffers from persistent geographical disparities that skew research toward affluent countries and regions, primarily in Europe and North America (Maas &lt;i&gt;et al&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;span&gt;2021&lt;/span&gt;; Gomez &lt;i&gt;et al&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;span&gt;2022&lt;/span&gt;). Despite increased awareness, efforts to foster inclusivity within scientific communities often perpetuate existing biases. Studies claiming to have global representation among their authors are, in reality, mostly skewed to authors from particular countries, typically those that are more economically developed within a given continent. For instance, in research collaborations that include authors from South America, Africa, and Asia, those authors are primarily affiliated with only a few economically developed countries—such as Brazil, South Africa, and China—leaving many other nations on those continents underrepresented. In general, this could deceptively suggest that research is not being conducted in the underrepresented countries. Besides providing a misleading image of global inclusiveness, excluding voices from these regions leads to data gaps and diminished spatial coverage of studies, and overlooks opportunities to enhance scientific capacity in marginalized countries (Shaaban &lt;i&gt;et al&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;span&gt;2024&lt;/span&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This issue is partly driven by international research networks and consortia favoring established “traditional” institutions and experts, alongside the persistence of “parachute research” practices. Scientists from regionally misrepresented countries often face limited professional visibility (eg online profiles, personal websites), as well as restricted access to international conferences, funding, and collaboration networks—further entrenching their geographic exclusion. In addition, many scholars from underrepresented countries often publish research in non-English languages or local scientific journals, both of which are vastly unavailable in or excluded from major international scholarly bibliographic databases (eg Web of Science, Scopus; Chowdhury &lt;i&gt;et al&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;span&gt;2022&lt;/span&gt;). Consequently, relying on such databases to ascertain representation within so-called global projects, assessments, and analyses (hereafter, global studies) provides a highly incomplete picture of the actual research landscape.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;An analysis of the involvement of authors from misrepresented countries in global studies within the wider field of ecology and conservation (for methods, see Appendix 1: Panel S1) revealed strong regional disparities (Figure 1). In the publications that originated from these global studies (3731 in all), collaborations and authorship tended to be regionally concentrated in only a few economically developed countries, while regionally low-income countries were rarely involved. For example, in purportedly global studies that included at least one author from Africa, authors from low-income countries were involved in only 27% of publications (56 out of 209), which were dominated ","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"23 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/fee.2851","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143900869","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}

{"title":"A path to reconciliation between Indigenous and settler–colonial epistemologies","authors":"Joseph Gazing Wolf,&nbsp;Ellen Simmons,&nbsp;Paulette Blanchard,&nbsp;Lydia L Jennings,&nbsp;Danielle D Ignace,&nbsp;Dominique M David-Chavez,&nbsp;Deondre Smiles,&nbsp;Michelle Montgomery,&nbsp;Ruth Plenty Sweetgrass-She Kills,&nbsp;Melissa K Nelson,&nbsp;Diana Doan-Crider,&nbsp;Linda Black Elk,&nbsp;Luke Black Elk,&nbsp;Gwen Bridge,&nbsp;Ann Marie Chischilly,&nbsp;Kevin Deer,&nbsp;Kathy DeerinWater,&nbsp;Trudy Ecoffey,&nbsp;Judith Vergun,&nbsp;Daniel Wildcat,&nbsp;James Rattling Leaf","doi":"10.1002/fee.2847","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2847","url":null,"abstract":"<p>There is a movement across settler–colonial institutions of education and research to engage with Indigenous Peoples and Knowledges. Many settler and Indigenous governments are pursuing pathways to move forward together to address global problems such as climate change. However, given the pervasive history of exploitation and displacement of Indigenous communities, this development has caused some concern among Indigenous leaders and scholars. At the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America (ESA) in Montreal, Canada, the Traditional Ecological Knowledge Section of the ESA hosted a 2-day workshop. This gathering of 21 Indigenous environmental scientists included scholars from across the career and professional spectrum. By consensus, workshop participants identified three emergent themes—Engage, Heal, and Reconcile—that provide a pathway toward reconciliation between Indigenous and settler–colonial ways of knowing. This path allows for an ever-greater sharing of institutional resources and power toward a co-equal interfacing of Indigenous Knowledges and settler science.</p>","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"23 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/fee.2847","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144927735","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}

{"title":"Response to Caudill et al. (2025)","authors":"Kira A Cassidy,&nbsp;Douglas W Smith","doi":"10.1002/fee.2834","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2834","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":171,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment","volume":"23 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143901101","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}