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Not in it for the money: meaningful relationships sustain voluntary land conservation initiatives in Peru.

Published online: 09 Jul 2024

Authors: Lama, R. L. de la & Bennett, N. & Bulkan, J. & Puente, S. de la & Chan, K. M. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Voluntary land conservation, including privately protected areas (PPAs), is a key component of enabling the future of biodiversity on Earth. According...

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Bridging the conservation and development trade-off? A working landscape critique of a conservancy in the Maasai Mara.

Published online: 23 Aug 2024

Authors: Tyrrell, P. & Evans, L. & Brehony, P. & Wood, P. & Karimi, R. & Kaelo, D. O. & Hunter, F. & Muiyuro, R. & Kang'ethe, E. & Perry, B.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

The recent call to halt biodiversity loss by protecting half the planet has been hotly contested because of the extent to which people might be exclud...

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The changing environment of conservation conflict: geese and farming in Scotland.

Published online: 02 May 2018

Authors: Mason, T. H. E. & Keane, A. & Redpath, S. M. & Bunnefeld, N.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Conflict between conservation objectives and human livelihoods is ubiquitous and can be highly damaging, but the processes generating it are poorly un...

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Conservation in conversation: people's perspectives on a woodland with high conservation value - a qualitative study.

Published online: 24 Nov 2022

Authors: Hague, A. & Fischer, A. & Byg, A. & Juarez-Bourke, A. & Herrett, S. & Eastwood, A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Concepts such as ecosystem services and nature's contributions to people are frameworks for articulating the value of nature and biodiversity conserva...

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A unified model for optimizing riverscape conservation.

Published online: 20 Feb 2019

Authors: Erős, T. & O'Hanley, J. R. & Czeglédi, I.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Spatial prioritization tools provide a means of finding efficient trade-offs between biodiversity protection and the delivery of ecosystem services. A...

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Optimising nature conservation outcomes for a given region-wide level of food production.

Published online: 26 Nov 2020

Authors: Finch, T. & Green, R. E. & Massimino, D. & Peach, W. J. & Balmford, A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The land sharing-sparing framework aims to quantify the trade-off between food production and biodiversity conservation, but it has been criticized fo...

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Advice as an instrument for more nature conservation in agriculture: evaluation of the advice offered in the joint project "Red Kite - Land for Life".

Published online: 28 Aug 2020

Authors: Böhner, H. & Schmidt, T. G.

Content type: Bulletin

From 2014 to 2018, within the scope of the "Rotmilan - Land zum Leben" joint project, more than 880 farms were given advice on the implementation of r...

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Strategic management of livestock to improve biodiversity conservation in African savannahs: a conceptual basis for wildlife-livestock coexistence.

Published online: 09 Mar 2016

Authors: Fynn, R. W. S. & Augustine, D. J. & Peel, M. J. S. & Garine-Wichatitsky, M. de

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

African savannas are complex socio-ecological systems with diverse wild and domestic herbivore assemblages, which adapt spatially to intra- and intera...

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Mammals and agri-environment schemes: hare haven or pest paradise?

Published online: 19 Dec 2007

Authors: Reid, N. & McDonald, R. A. & Montgomery, W. I.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Agri-environment schemes (AESs) are designed to create landscape-scale improvements in biodiversity. While the specific aims of AESs do not always inc...

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Modelling edge effects of mature forest plantations on peatland waders informs landscape-scale conservation.

Published online: 05 Feb 2014

Authors: Wilson, J. D. & Anderson, R. & Bailey, S. & Chetcuti, J. & Cowie, N. R. & Hancock, M. H. & Quine, C. P. & Russell, N. & Stephen, L. & Thompson, D. B. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Edge effects of native forest fragmentation have been well studied, but there are few studies of open-ground habitats fragmented by plantation forests...

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