Global Conservation of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

Will R. Turner (e-mail: [email protected]) is an ecologist, World Agroforestry Center, University of the Philippines, Los Baños.

(PDF) Global Conservation of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

We find that published global priority maps for biodiversity conservation harbor a disproportionate share of estimated terrestrial ecosystem service value (ESV ...

Habitat destruction has driven much of the current biodiversity extinction crisis, and it compromises the essential benefits, or ecosystem ...

Scientists Show that at Least 44 Percent of Earth's Land Requires ...

If nations are serious about safeguarding biodiversity and ecosystem services that underpin life on Earth, then they need immediately to scale- ...

Global synergies and trade-offs between multiple dimensions of ...

Ensuring the persistence of biodiversity and ecosystem services represents a global challenge that need to be addressed with high urgency.

Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

IPBES is to perform regular and timely assessments of knowledge on biodiversity and ecosystem services and their interlinkages at the global level.

Global mapping of ecosystem services and conservation priorities

Global efforts to conserve biodiversity have the potential to deliver economic benefits to people (i.e., “ecosystem services”). However, regions for which ...

How can global conventions for biodiversity and ecosystem services ...

With global science-policy conventions for biodiversity and ecosystem services in place, much effort goes into monitoring and reporting on the progress ...

Chapter 7: Ecosystems, Ecosystem Services, and Biodiversity

Healthy ecosystems have two primary components: the species that live within them, and the interactions among species and between species and their environment.

BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICES - IPBES

In Stephen Garnett et al., “A spatial overview of the global importance of. Indigenous lands for conservation”, Nature Sustainability, Vol. 1 (July 2018) pp ...

A global conservation basic income to safeguard biodiversity - Nature

Biodiversity conservation supporting a global sustainability transformation must be inclusive, equitable, just and embrace plural values.

Bridging conflicts and protecting global biodiversity - World Bank Blogs

The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services emphasizes that even with growing awareness of humanity's ...

Global mapping of ecosystem services and conservation priorities

Global efforts to conserve biodiversity have the potential to deliver economic benefits to people (i.e., "ecosystem services").

Protecting ecosystem services and biodiversity in the world's ...

In general, watersheds are prioritized when human need for an ecosystem service is great, supply can be protected at relatively low cost, ...

Conserving Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services - Science

Caricaturing slightly, the first is focused on biodiversity conservation for its own sake, independent of human needs or desires. The second is focused on ...

Challenges in producing policy-relevant global scenarios of ...

Addressing these challenges would allow the development of more integrated global projections of biodiversity and ecosystem services, thereby improving their ...

Biodiversity - our strongest natural defense against climate change

The Earth's land and the ocean serve as natural carbon sinks, absorbing large amounts of greenhouse gas emissions. Conserving and restoring natural spaces, and ...

Biodiversity Hotspots - Conservation International

By one estimate, despite comprising 2.5% of Earth's land surface, the forests, wetlands and other ecosystems in hotspots account for 35% of the “ecosystem ...

Gains in biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services from the ...

We find that achieving the target of protecting 30% of the world's land area by 2030 can greatly benefit both biodiversity and human well-being.

Major new global assessment describes biodiversity in crisis - CITES

The Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, launched today in Paris, confirms that species and ecosystems around the world are in ...