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Connecting young people with greenspaces: the case for participatory video.

Published online: 14 Aug 2023

Authors: Eastwood, A. & Juárez-Bourke, A. & Herrett, S. & Hague, A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

The values that people hold are thought to be key in bringing about the transformative change needed to halt biodiversity loss. Caring for nature has ...

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From science to society to practice? Public reactions to the insect crisis in Germany.

Published online: 11 Aug 2023

Authors: Felgentreff, E. S. & Buchholz, S. & Straka, T. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

The insect crisis, as conservation topic, has historically received little attention among the general public. Yet, the publication "More than 75% dec...

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Could Nintendo's animal crossing be a tool for conservation messaging?

Published online: 08 Aug 2022

Authors: Fisher, J. C. & Yoh, N. & Kubo, T. & Rundle, D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

The current extinction crisis demands worldwide commitment to conservation across all sectors of society. By transcending the traditional disciplinary...

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Use of evidence for decision-making by conservation practitioners in the illegal wildlife trade.

Published online: 13 Oct 2021

Published by: British Ecological Society

Authors: Arias, M. & Hinsley, A. & Milner-Gulland, E. J.

Content type: Blog

There are calls to ground policies aimed at addressing the illegal wildlife trade (IWT), and biodiversity conservation more generally, on the best ava...

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Dead in the water: mortality messaging in water crisis communication and implications for pro-environmental outcomes.

Published online: 22 Sep 2023

Authors: Smith, L. K. M. & Wolfe, S. E.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

All nature relies on water, yet climate change threatens water availability to the highest degree-from too much (e.g. extreme weather; flooding) to to...

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Escaping social-ecological traps through ecological restoration and socioeconomic development in China's Loess Plateau.

Published online: 20 Sep 2023

Authors: Wang ZhuangZhuang & Fu BoJie & Wu XuTong & Li YingJie & Wang Shuai & Lu Nan

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

The social-ecological trap is an emerging concept that describes situations in which self-reinforcing social and ecological feedbacks maintain or push...

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Co-designing a toolkit for evidence-based decision making in conservation: processes and lessons.

Published online: 22 Oct 2023

Authors: Smith, R. K. & Morgan, W. H. & Al-Fulaij, N. & Amano, T. & Bowkett, A. E. & Christie, A. & Downey, H. & Frick, W. F. & O'Brien, D. & Ockendon, N. & Oppel, S. & Petrovan, S. O. & Righton, D. & Tinsley-Marshall, P. & Worthington, T. A. & Sutherland, W. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

Improving the effectiveness of conservation practice requires better use of evidence. Since 2004, researchers from the Conservation Evidence group (Un...

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Communities in ecosystem restoration: the role of inclusive values and local elites' narrative innovations.

Published online: 06 Nov 2024

Authors: Dai HuXuan & Zhu ZiYun & Trachung, B. & Golog, D. & Riley, M. & Lü Zhi & Li Li

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Ecosystem restoration practices are gaining prominence in coping with the crisis of ecosystem degradation. To improve the long-term effectiveness of r...

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How do young identify plants? Using the drawing method to explore early ethnobotanical knowledge in Madagascar.

Published online: 09 Nov 2024

Authors: Porcher, V. & Gallois, S. & Reyes-García, V. & Raketabakoly, S. C. & Alvarez-Fernández, S. & Carrière, S. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

In small-scale societies, people learn to identify plant species during childhood. Plant recognition is an important baseline knowledge, immediately u...

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Protected areas and nature recovery: achieving the goal to protect 30% of UK land and seas for nature by 2030.

Published online: 06 Jul 2022

Published by: British Ecological Society

Authors: Bailey, J. J. & Schéré, C. M. & Cunningham, C. A. & Metcalfe, C. A. & Griffin, D. C. & Hoppit, G. & Turner, R. K. & Travers, T. & Hill, J. K. & Sinnadurai, P.

Content type: Reports

Area-based conservation on land and at sea will be a critical component of the UK's efforts towards addressing the connected climate and ecological cr...

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