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Abstract Many of the most pressing issues in environmental and conservation sciences are caused by humans and our activities. Yet, our well-intentioned efforts to address these issues often fail to critically engage with ...

Brief abstract: There has never been more interest in allocating resources to reversing biodiversity loss. The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework is a theory of change with an explicit focus on addressing the causes ...

Abstract Forests and the people who live in and with them are under the global scientific, policy and popular spotlight as never before. Forest-human interactions, often framed as disturbance of natural forest, are ...

Abstract: The voluntary carbon market is an important near-term opportunity for funding nature-based climate solutions. It is shrinking just as states of the Amazon are preparing to sell large volumes of a new ...

Abstract In this talk I will present and discuss the array of interdisciplinary evidence on nature and health developed by myself and colleagues at the European Centre for Environment and Human Health. I ...

Have you ever wondered why you exist? What had to happen for you – and all life on Earth – to come into being? In this talk I start at the beginning ...

Conservation is a crisis discipline, and one that is arguably failing. As we face an unprecedented rate of extinction, how do we mainstream biodiversity conservation into global decision-making and sustainable development? In this ...

Professor Charles Foster. University of Oxford Abstract Swifts inhabit the air as few other organisms do. This talk is an account of an attempt by an earthbound man to follow them there: on their ...

Dr. Joe Roman, University of Vermont. If forests are the lungs of the planet, then animals are its arteries, transporting nutrients across vast distances and from the deep sea to the ocean surface. ...