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Allocating community-level payments for ecosystem services: initial experiences from a REDD pilot in Tanzania.

Published online: 23 Dec 2015

Authors: Robinson, E. J. Z. & Albers, H. J. & Lokina, R. B. & Meshack, C.

Content type: Bulletin

Payments for ecosystem services (PES) typically reward landowners for managing their land to provide ecosystem services that would not otherwise be pr...

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Confirmation that eagle fatalities can be reduced by automated curtailment of wind turbines.

Published online: 25 Oct 2022

Authors: McClure, C. J. W. & Rolek, B. & Dunn, L. & McCabe, J. D. & Martinson, L. & Katzner, T. E.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

1. Automated curtailment is potentially a powerful technique to reduce collision mortality of wildlife with wind turbines. Previously, we used a befor...

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The perceived ecological and human well-being benefits of ecosystem restoration.

Published online: 17 Apr 2024

Authors: Jurjonas, M. & May, C. A. & Cardinale, B. & Kyriakakis, S. & Pearsall, D. R. & Doran, P. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Traditionally, ecosystem restoration has focussed on standard ecological indicators like water or habitat quality, species population abundance or veg...

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Drought risk reduction in agriculture: a review of adaptive strategies in East Africa and the Indo-Gangetic Plain of South Asia.

Published online: 23 Dec 2014

Authors: Cenacchi, N.

Content type: Bulletin

This report is a component of the Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security (CCAFS) - funded project "Impacts of Climate Extr...

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Integrating invasive species policies across ornamental horticulture supply chains to prevent plant invasions.

Published online: 31 Jan 2018

Authors: Hulme, P. E. & Brundu, G. & Carboni, M. & Dehnen-Schmutz, K. & Dullinger, S. & Early, R. & Essl, F. & González-Moreno, P. & Groom, Q. J. & Kueffer, C. & Kühn, I. & Maurel, N. & Novoa, A. & Pergl, J. & Pyšek, P. & Seebens, H. & Tanner, R. & Touza, J. M. & Kleunen, M. van & Verbrugge, L. N. H. & Flory, L.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Ornamental horticulture is the primary pathway for invasive alien plant introductions. We critically appraise published evidence on the effectiveness ...

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Boma fortification is cost-effective at reducing predation of livestock in a high-predation zone in the Western Mara region, Kenya.

Published online: 12 Sep 2018

Authors: Sutton, A. E. & Downey, M. G. & Kamande, E. & Munyao, F. & Rinaldi, M. & Taylor, A. K. & Pimm, S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Conservation Evidence

Lions Panthera leo kill livestock in the pastoral steppe of East Africa. The subsequent lethal retaliation by livestock owners has helped reduce lion ...

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Short-term trends in great ape density in a community-based conservation area in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Published online: 30 Oct 2024

Authors: Hoek, Y. van der & Perre, F. van de & Fastré, C. & Kirkpatrick, L. & Ngobobo, U. & Tokunda, R. & Binyinyi, E. & Stoinski, T. S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

The forests of eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) constitute a biodiversity hotspot and provide habitat to two globally threatened great a...

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Influencing adaptation policy: the role of policy entrepreneurs in securing ownership and climate action in South Asia.

Published online: 06 Mar 2019

Authors: Tanner, T. & Rizwan-uz-Zaman & Acharya, S.

Content type: Miscellaneous

This paper combines perspectives and theories on policy influencing from the literature with empirical examples from the Action on Climate Today (ACT)...

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Fishery performance indicator studies for the commercial and recreational pelagic fleets of the Dominican Republic and Grenada.

Published online: 04 Sep 2019

Authors: Gentner, B. & Arocha, F. & Anderson, C. & Flett, K. & Obregon, P. & Anrooy, R. van

Content type: Bulletin

Fishery Performance Indicators (FPIs) were developed to address gaps in data and information on fisheries worldwide and in recognition that to be succ...

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The costs of delivering environmental outcomes with land sharing and land sparing.

Published online: 09 Mar 2023

Authors: Collas, L. & Sourd, R. C. D. & Finch, T. & Green, R. & Hanley, N. & Balmford, A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

The biodiversity and climate crises demand ambitious policies lowering the environmental impacts of farming. Most current interventions incentivise so...

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