Biodiversity losses and conservation responses in the Anthropocene

By Christopher N. Johnson, A. Balmford, Barry W. Brook, J. Buettel, M. Galetti, Guangchun Lei, Janet Wilmshurst. Science, 2017

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Biodiversity is essential to human well-being, but people have been reducing biodiversity throughout human history. Loss of species and degradation of ecosystems are likely to further accelerate in the coming years. Our understanding of this crisis is now clear, and world leaders have pledged to avert it. Nonetheless, global goals to reduce the rate of biodiversity loss have mostly not been achieved. However, many examples of conservation success show that losses can be halted and even reversed. Building on these lessons to turn the tide of biodiversity loss will require bold and innovative action to transform historical relationships between human populations and nature.

Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change

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Citations in the corpus

• A global-level assessment of the effectiveness of protected areas at resisting anthropogenic pressures (2019, background): “T Anthropocene is characterized by an unparalleled “human impact on the global environment” (1) leading to dramatic declines in biodiversity and potentially the first mass extinctions brought on by a single species (2).”