Conservation Letters

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Issue Information	133
Climate change and energy crisis drive an unprecedented EU environmental law regression	121
Land‐cover and land‐use change trajectory hopping facilitates estate‐crop expansion into protected forests in Indonesia	101
Political Will Has Been Critical for Protecting Forests in the Brazilian Amazon and Indonesia	83
Correspondence: Challender et al. (2021) misinterpret the recommendations regarding an IUCN‐CITES interface in Frank and Wilcove (2019) and advocate poor policy	82
European Habitats Directive has fostered monitoring but not prevented species declines	81
Concrete Habitat Severely Decreases the Reproductive Output of Two Urban Birds	75
Simulating Demography, Monitoring, and Management Decisions to Evaluate Adaptive Management Strategies for Endangered Species	63
Collaborative fisheries research reveals reserve size and age determine efficacy across a network of marine protected areas	51
Rewilding and Indigenous‐Led Land Care Are Not Compatible Ideas	49
Integrated systematic planning and adaptive stakeholder process support a 10‐fold increase in South Africa's Marine Protected Area estate	48
Nature and equity	46
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Naming It Is Not Enough: An Orienting Map for Understanding Conservation's Entanglement With Power	42
First Evidence of Individual Sharks Involved in Multiple Predatory Bites on People	34
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Conserving urban biodiversity: Current practice, barriers, and enablers	33
Remote seamounts are key conservation priorities for pelagic wildlife	32
Toward a new framework for restoring lost wildlife migrations	31
Risky business: Protecting nature, protecting wealth?	29
Bycatch in drift gillnet fisheries: A sink for Indian Ocean cetaceans	29
Languages of Life: A Global Perspective on Linguistic Priorities for Biodiversity Conservation	29
Applying the Key Biodiversity Area Standard to Important Sites for Sharks	28
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Conservation and human rights: The public commitments of international conservation organizations	27
Co‐benefits for terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystem services available from contrasting land protection policies in the contiguous United States	26
How Do We Identify Anthropogenic Allee Effects in the Wildlife Trade?	25
Phylogenetic relationships of invasive plants are useful criteria for weed risk assessments	25
Kleptoparasitism in seabirds—A potential pathway for global avian influenza virus spread	24
What is the value of biotic seed dispersal in post‐fire forest regeneration?	24
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Does biodiversity‐focused protection of the seabed deliver carbon benefits? A U.K. case study	21
Stakeholder‐derived recommendations and actions to support deep‐reef conservation in the Western Indian Ocean	19
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Acoustic Indices Predict Recovery of Tropical Bird Communities for Taxonomic and Functional Composition	18
Conflict between cultural development and wildlife conservation: A potential threat to Reeves's pheasant ( Syrmaticus reevesii )	18
Mapping Multiple Wild Pig Species’ Population Dynamics in Southeast Asia During the African Swine Fever Outbreak (2018–2024)	18
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The costs and benefits of publicising species discoveries	18
Positive effects of fragmentation per se on the most iconic metapopulation	18
Contributions of small‐scale and longline fishing to sea turtle mortality in the Solomon Islands	17
Now What? The Conundrum of Successful Recovery of Wolves and Other Species for European Conservation	17
What starts with laughter ends in tears: Invasive alien species regulations should not hinder scientific research	17
Who cares about monarch butterflies? Comparing US State Wildlife Action Plans 2015–2025	16
Passive Acoustic Gliders Are Effective Monitoring Tools for Dynamic Management Plans Aimed at Mitigating Whale‐Vessel Strikes	16
Fish aggregating devices could enhance the effectiveness of blue water marine protected areas	16
Collective PES Contracts Can Motivate Institutional Creation to Conserve Forests: Experimental Evidence	15
A consumption‐based analysis of extinction risk in Australia	14
Realizing “30 × 30” in India: The potential, the challenges, and the way forward	14
Testing an intervention codesigned with stakeholders for altering wildlife consumption: Health messaging matters	14
Personal traits predict conservationists’ optimism about outcomes for nature	14
Urgent Policy Change Is Needed to Understand the Dimensions of Legal International Wildlife Trade to Enable Targeted Management	13
Existing indicators do not adequately monitor progress toward meeting invasive alien species targets	13
The fear factor—Snakes in Africa might be at an alarming extinction risk	13
Colluding rhino poachers exploit space–time variation in opportunity and risk	13
An Assessment of the Fish Maw Trade in Singapore and Malaysia Reveals Threatened Species and Highlights the Need for a More Complete Assessment of the Conservation Status of the World's Fishes	13
Addressing the Southeast Asian snaring crisis: Impact of 11 years of snare removal in a biodiversity hotspot	13
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Insights from diplomacy for the prevention and resolution of conservation conflicts	12
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Support for the US Endangered Species Act Is High and Steady Over the Past Three Decades	12
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What Will Count?—Evidence for the Global Recognition of Other Effective area–based Conservation Measures	12
An inconvenient misconception: Climate change is not the principal driver of biodiversity loss	12
Fisheries outcomes of marine protected area networks: Levels of protection, connectivity, and time matter	12
Advances and shortfalls in applying best practices to global tree‐growing efforts	12
A Survey of Mammal and Fish Genetic Diversity Across the Global Protected Area Network	12
A criminal justice response to address the illegal trade of wildlife in Indonesia	12
Using weather radar to help minimize wind energy impacts on nocturnally migrating birds	11
Village modernization and reduced abundance of farmland birds: Why compensation for lost nesting sites may not be enough	11
The biodiversity adaptation gap: Management actions for marine protected areas in the face of climate change	11

Relational Commons: An Ontological and Governance Framework Beyond Protected Areas and the Boundaries of Conservation	11
Benchmarking fish biodiversity of seaports with eDNA and nearby marine reserves	11
Foraging mode affects extinction risk of snakes and lizards, but in different ways	11
High‐resolution satellite imagery meets the challenge of monitoring remote marine protected areas in the Antarctic and beyond	10
What is soil biodiversity?	10
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Wild goose chase: Geese flee high and far, and with aftereffects from New Year's fireworks	10
Multilayer Network Analysis Reveals Connectivity Synergies Between Protected Area Levels Across Various Taxonomic Groups	9
Quantitative impacts of hydroelectric dams on the trans‐Amazonian migrations of goliath catfish	9
Marine Conservation Leadership: Does Australia Walk the Talk?	9
Testing the Effect of Different Risk Messages on Intention to Consume Animal‐Based Medicinal Wine	9
Rewilding and Indigenous Community‐Led Land Care	9
Village modernization and farmland birds: A reply to Rosin et al. (2021)	9
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Destructive fishing: An expert‐driven definition and exploration of this quasi‐concept	9
Tropical field stations yield high conservation return on investment	8
An equity lens on behavioral science for conservation	8
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Taking Action to Avoid Extinction: Successful Regional‐Scale Lethal Control of Barred Owls Supports a Federal Strategy to Save Spotted Owls	8
Too hot to hunt: Mechanistic predictions of thermal refuge from cat predation risk	8
Resolving Uncertainties in the Legality of Wildlife Trade to Support Better Outcomes for Wildlife and People	8
Invasion trends: An interpretable measure of change is needed to support policy targets	8
Wilderness Quality, Habitat Connectivity, and the Effectiveness of Protected Areas Diminish as Human Activities Intensify	8
Reimagining protected and conserved areas in Africa: Perspectives from the first Africa Protected Areas Congress	8
An antiracist, anticolonial agenda for urban greening and conservation	8
Hunting for Sustainability: Indigenous Stewardship in the Cofán Territory of Zábalo	8
Correction to: Using nonhuman culture in conservation requires careful and concerted action	8
Essential planetary health workers: Positioning rangers within global policy	8
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Mismatch Between Global Importance of Peatlands and the Extent of Their Protection	8
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Historical maps improve the identification of forests with potentially high conservation value	7
Asia's Wolves and Synergies With Big Cats	7
Avoid Cherry‐Picking Targets and Embrace Holistic Conservation to Pursue the Global Biodiversity Framework	7
Do 50‐year‐old Ramsar criteria still do the best possible job? A plea for broadened scientific underpinning of the global protection of wetlands and migratory waterbirds	7
Unlocking the Value of Ranger‐Based Monitoring for Biodiversity Conservation and Protected Area Management	7
An Updated DNA Barcoding Tool for Aloe Vera and Related CITES‐Regulated Species	7
Horizon scanning for potential invasive non‐native species across the United Kingdom Overseas Territories	7
Parachute conservation: Investigating trends in international research	7
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Conservation responsibility for bird species in tropical logged forests	7
Evolution and Viability of Asian Horseshoe Crabs Appear Tightly Linked to Geo‐Climatic Dynamics in the Sunda Shelf	7
Explicit incentives increase citizen science recordings	6
Correction to “Protect the Integrity of CITES: Lessons From Japan's IWC Withdrawal to Keep Polarization From Tearing CITES Apart”	6
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Data‐driven counterfactual evaluation of management outcomes to improve emergency conservation decisions	6
Novel operational index reveals rapid recovery of genetic connectivity in freshwater fish species after riverine restoration	6
Urgent actions needed by digital services platforms to help achieve conservation and public health goals	6
Recognizing culturally significant species and Indigenous‐led management is key to meeting international biodiversity obligations	6
Integrating an Eco‐Evolutionary Perspective for Coral Reef Resistance Into Global Conservation Planning and Policy	6
Fisher–shark interactions: A loss of support for the Maldives shark sanctuary from reef fishers whose livelihoods are affected by shark depredation	6
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The perils of measuring biodiversity responses to habitat change using mixed metrics	5
Megaherbivores and Mega‐Infrastructure in East Africa	5
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Scaling Out Community Conservation Initiatives: Experts Identify Economic and Social Benefits, Compatibility With Needs, and External Support as Key	5
Hunting trophy import bans proposed by the UK may be ineffective and inequitable as conservation policies in multiple social‐ecological contexts	5
Protected areas still used to produce Brazil's cattle	5
Identifying climate‐smart tropical Key Biodiversity Areas for protection in response to widespread temperature novelty	5
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Greenwashing Marine Conservation: The Use of Artificial Reefs for Fisheries and Coral Restoration Needs Oversight	5
To conserve African tropical forests, invest in the protection of its most endangered group of monkeys, red colobus	5
Corporate disclosures need a biodiversity outcome focus and regulatory backing to deliver global conservation goals	5
Science‐based planning can support law enforcement actions to curb deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon	5
China's Ecological Conservation Redline policy is a new opportunity to meet post‐2020 protected area targets	5
Could environmental and conservation sciences benefit from an anonymized journal?	5
Harnessing Solar Energy to Reduce Sea Turtle Bycatch	4
Assessing the value of citizen scientist observations in tracking the abundance of marine fishes	4
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Flexible Climate Adaptation Can Substantially Reduce Conservation Costs and Mitigate Risk	4
Bats as a Model for Enhancing IUCN Red List Assessments: Real‐Time Data, Contributor Networks, and Specialized Training to Address Common Challenges	4
Beyond inappropriate fire regimes: A synthesis of fire‐driven declines of threatened mammals in Australia	4
Creating an Authorizing Environment to Care for Country	4
Evaluating the mitigation effectiveness of forests managed for conservation versus commodity production using an Australian example	4
The last stand: Demographic and population genomic analysis reveals terminal endangerment in tropical timber species Vatica guangxiensis	4
Ethical and mental health considerations for research into trade and trafficking of natural resources	4
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An operational methodology to identify Critical Ecosystem Areas to help nations achieve the Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework	4
A roadmap integrating research, policy, and actions to conserve Afro‐Palearctic migratory landbirds at a flyway scale	4

The geography of international conservation interest in South American deforestation frontiers	3
Corporate Biodiversity Reporting Can Be Scaled With AI and Earth Observation—But Will Miss the Point Without Guidance From Conservation Scientists	3
Rotational fishery closures could enhance coral recovery in systems with alternative states	3
European Native Oyster Reef Ecosystems Are Universally Collapsed	3
Over 80% of Africa's savannah conservation land is failing or deteriorating according to lions as an indicator species	3
Performance of protected areas in conserving African elephants	3
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Estimating Causal Impacts of Human Recreation on Wildlife in the Absence of Experimental Controls	3
Collaborative conservation for snow leopards: Lessons learned from successful community‐based interventions	3
Trees on farms improve dietary quality in rural Malawi	3
Fostering landscape immunity to protect human health: A science‐based rationale for shifting conservation policy paradigms	3
How can the European Common Agricultural Policy help halt biodiversity loss? Recommendations by over 300 experts	3
Who Let the Frogs out? Illicit and Unregulated Species Translocations	3
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Helping to save pangolins from extinction	3
Overall protection of Asian elephants in China	3
Undescribed species have higher extinction risk than known species	3