Conservation Letters

Article	Citations
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Land‐cover and land‐use change trajectory hopping facilitates estate‐crop expansion into protected forests in Indonesia	66
Simulating Demography, Monitoring, and Management Decisions to Evaluate Adaptive Management Strategies for Endangered Species	63
Climate change and energy crisis drive an unprecedented EU environmental law regression	48
European Habitats Directive has fostered monitoring but not prevented species declines	48
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Conservation Through Criminalization? Rethinking Environmental Crime in Policy and Practice	45
What Comes After the European Green Deal? Analyzing the State and Perspective of the EU's Land Use and Conservation Policy	43
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Collaborative fisheries research reveals reserve size and age determine efficacy across a network of marine protected areas	35
Political Will Has Been Critical for Protecting Forests in the Brazilian Amazon and Indonesia	34
The Forgotten International Trade of Sawfish Rostral Teeth in Latin America	32
Concrete Habitat Severely Decreases the Reproductive Output of Two Urban Birds	31
Beyond Blame: Migration's Limited Role in Madagascar's Deforestation	28
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Rewilding and Indigenous‐Led Land Care Are Not Compatible Ideas	27
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Marine Subsidies Fortify a Stronghold for a Freshwater Megafish ( Hucho taimen )	26
Nature and equity	26
From Alerts to Action: Operationalizing Real‐Time Mortality Monitoring for Vultures	25
What Drives Conservation Adoption? Social Science Insights from Cattle Ranchers in the Pantanal Wetland, Brazil	24
First Evidence of Individual Sharks Involved in Multiple Predatory Bites on People	22
Integrated systematic planning and adaptive stakeholder process support a 10‐fold increase in South Africa's Marine Protected Area estate	21
Vulnerability and Adaptations to Climate Change in EU Protected Areas: A Natura 2000 Managers’ perspective	21
Naming It Is Not Enough: An Orienting Map for Understanding Conservation's Entanglement With Power	21

Applying the Key Biodiversity Area Standard to Important Sites for Sharks	20
The Many Pathways of Mining Impacts on Biodiversity	20
Conserving urban biodiversity: Current practice, barriers, and enablers	20
Languages of Life: A Global Perspective on Linguistic Priorities for Biodiversity Conservation	19
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Bycatch in drift gillnet fisheries: A sink for Indian Ocean cetaceans	18
The Neocolonial Tightening of CITES: How Northern Narratives Marginalize Southern Conservation	18
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Remote seamounts are key conservation priorities for pelagic wildlife	17
Risky business: Protecting nature, protecting wealth?	17
Conservation and human rights: The public commitments of international conservation organizations	17
Phylogenetic relationships of invasive plants are useful criteria for weed risk assessments	17
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Addressing Gaps in Butterfly Population Monitoring to Catalyze Global Insect Conservation	16
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Does biodiversity‐focused protection of the seabed deliver carbon benefits? A U.K. case study	15
Citizen Science Offers Untapped Potential for Conservation Through Research Flexibility	15
Avoid Sacrificing Nature to Truly Achieve Net Zero	15
What is the value of biotic seed dispersal in post‐fire forest regeneration?	15
How Do We Identify Anthropogenic Allee Effects in the Wildlife Trade?	15
Decolonizing Conservation and the Importance of Nature‐Based Approaches, Not Solutions: Learning From Indigenous and Local Conservation Systems in India to Achieve the Global Biodiversity Agenda	15
Stakeholder‐derived recommendations and actions to support deep‐reef conservation in the Western Indian Ocean	15
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Conflict between cultural development and wildlife conservation: A potential threat to Reeves's pheasant ( Syrmaticus reevesii )	14
Mapping Multiple Wild Pig Species’ Population Dynamics in Southeast Asia During the African Swine Fever Outbreak (2018–2024)	14
The costs and benefits of publicising species discoveries	14
Now What? The Conundrum of Successful Recovery of Wolves and Other Species for European Conservation	14
What starts with laughter ends in tears: Invasive alien species regulations should not hinder scientific research	14
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Contributions of small‐scale and longline fishing to sea turtle mortality in the Solomon Islands	14
Kleptoparasitism in seabirds—A potential pathway for global avian influenza virus spread	14
Acoustic Indices Predict Recovery of Tropical Bird Communities for Taxonomic and Functional Composition	14
Positive effects of fragmentation per se on the most iconic metapopulation	13
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Fish aggregating devices could enhance the effectiveness of blue water marine protected areas	12
Testing an intervention codesigned with stakeholders for altering wildlife consumption: Health messaging matters	12
The Effect of Federal Delisting on US Wolf Population Dynamics	12
Who cares about monarch butterflies? Comparing US State Wildlife Action Plans 2015–2025	12
Urgent Policy Change Is Needed to Understand the Dimensions of Legal International Wildlife Trade to Enable Targeted Management	12
Online Marketplaces’ Anti‐Data Collection Policies Hinder Research on Biodiversity Conservation and Zoonotic Disease Prevention	12
Collective PES Contracts Can Motivate Institutional Creation to Conserve Forests: Experimental Evidence	12
A consumption‐based analysis of extinction risk in Australia	12
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Realizing “30 × 30” in India: The potential, the challenges, and the way forward	11
Passive Acoustic Gliders Are Effective Monitoring Tools for Dynamic Management Plans Aimed at Mitigating Whale‐Vessel Strikes	11
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	11
The Managed Erosion of Conservation Priorities for Pacific Salmon	11
Existing indicators do not adequately monitor progress toward meeting invasive alien species targets	10
A Survey of Mammal and Fish Genetic Diversity Across the Global Protected Area Network	10
Support for the US Endangered Species Act Is High and Steady Over the Past Three Decades	10

The fear factor—Snakes in Africa might be at an alarming extinction risk	10
Addressing the Southeast Asian snaring crisis: Impact of 11 years of snare removal in a biodiversity hotspot	10
The Paradox of Success in Conservation Performance Payments: Rising Costs and Declining Trust in Sweden's Carnivore Policy	10
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Colluding rhino poachers exploit space–time variation in opportunity and risk	10
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Quantitative impacts of hydroelectric dams on the trans‐Amazonian migrations of goliath catfish	9
Fisheries outcomes of marine protected area networks: Levels of protection, connectivity, and time matter	9
A criminal justice response to address the illegal trade of wildlife in Indonesia	9
Foraging mode affects extinction risk of snakes and lizards, but in different ways	9
Destructive fishing: An expert‐driven definition and exploration of this quasi‐concept	9
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What Will Count?—Evidence for the Global Recognition of Other Effective area–based Conservation Measures	9
High‐Resolution Range Mapping of Mycorrhizal Fungal Species Reveals Systematic Biases in Their Protection	9
Relational Commons: An Ontological and Governance Framework Beyond Protected Areas and the Boundaries of Conservation	9
The biodiversity adaptation gap: Management actions for marine protected areas in the face of climate change	9
A Novel Fundraising Model for Conservation of a Noncharismatic Species: Lessons Learned From a Crowd‐Funded Eco‐Art Exhibition	9
Madagascar's Urban Lemur Meat Trade	9
Advances and shortfalls in applying best practices to global tree‐growing efforts	9
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Correction to: Using nonhuman culture in conservation requires careful and concerted action	8
Unsettling Academic Conferences: Authority, Reciprocity, and the Ethics of Place	8
Benchmarking fish biodiversity of seaports with eDNA and nearby marine reserves	8
Rewilding and Indigenous Community‐Led Land Care	8
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Wild goose chase: Geese flee high and far, and with aftereffects from New Year's fireworks	8
Future‐Proofing Natura 2000 Through a Biocultural Approach	7
The Untapped Potential of Food Webs in Systematic Conservation Planning	7
Multilayer Network Analysis Reveals Connectivity Synergies Between Protected Area Levels Across Various Taxonomic Groups	7
Tropical field stations yield high conservation return on investment	7
Use Real‐Time Mortality Alerts to Save Vultures	7
A Patch‐Number Null Does Not Rule out Conditional Configuration Effects	7
Testing the Effect of Different Risk Messages on Intention to Consume Animal‐Based Medicinal Wine	7
Resolving Uncertainties in the Legality of Wildlife Trade to Support Better Outcomes for Wildlife and People	7
Hunting for Sustainability: Indigenous Stewardship in the Cofán Territory of Zábalo	7
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Marine Conservation Leadership: Does Australia Walk the Talk?	7
Mismatch Between Global Importance of Peatlands and the Extent of Their Protection	7
Global Conservation Status of Key Areas for Climate Diversity	7
Masculinities in Conservation Science, Policy and Practice: A Qualitative Systematic Review	6
Exploring Pathways to the Persistence of Community Engagement in Co‐Management Across Social‐Ecological Conditions	6
Wilderness Quality, Habitat Connectivity, and the Effectiveness of Protected Areas Diminish as Human Activities Intensify	6
Taking Action to Avoid Extinction: Successful Regional‐Scale Lethal Control of Barred Owls Supports a Federal Strategy to Save Spotted Owls	6
Invasion trends: An interpretable measure of change is needed to support policy targets	6
Who Wants What and Why: A Typology for Clarifying Common Interest in Conservation	6
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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	6
Reimagining protected and conserved areas in Africa: Perspectives from the first Africa Protected Areas Congress	6
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Essential planetary health workers: Positioning rangers within global policy	6
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Parachute conservation: Investigating trends in international research	6
Asia's Wolves and Synergies With Big Cats	5
Unlocking the Value of Ranger‐Based Monitoring for Biodiversity Conservation and Protected Area Management	5
Historical maps improve the identification of forests with potentially high conservation value	5
Data‐driven counterfactual evaluation of management outcomes to improve emergency conservation decisions	5
Evolution and Viability of Asian Horseshoe Crabs Appear Tightly Linked to Geo‐Climatic Dynamics in the Sunda Shelf	5
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An Updated DNA Barcoding Tool for Aloe Vera and Related CITES‐Regulated Species	5
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Enabling Nature‐Based Solutions by Embracing Their Limits: Insights From Governing in Complexity	5
Genetic Homogenization and Conservation Challenges Associated With Chinese Giant Salamander Release Programs: Insights From Environmental DNA	5
Global Biodiversity Framework Targets Can Drive Action on Insect Declines, but Lack Robust Indicators to Prove Their Effectiveness	5
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Priority Actions for the Conservation of Primary and Old‐Growth Forests in Europe	5
Avoid Cherry‐Picking Targets and Embrace Holistic Conservation to Pursue the Global Biodiversity Framework	5
Horizon scanning for potential invasive non‐native species across the United Kingdom Overseas Territories	5
Explicit incentives increase citizen science recordings	5
Fisher–shark interactions: A loss of support for the Maldives shark sanctuary from reef fishers whose livelihoods are affected by shark depredation	4
Urgent actions needed by digital services platforms to help achieve conservation and public health goals	4
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From Data to Decision: Leveraging Essential Variables in Standardizing Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Monitoring and Reporting	4
Megaherbivores and Mega‐Infrastructure in East Africa	4
Correction to “Protect the Integrity of CITES: Lessons From Japan's IWC Withdrawal to Keep Polarization From Tearing CITES Apart”	4
Greenwashing Marine Conservation: The Use of Artificial Reefs for Fisheries and Coral Restoration Needs Oversight	4
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Novel operational index reveals rapid recovery of genetic connectivity in freshwater fish species after riverine restoration	4
Integrating an Eco‐Evolutionary Perspective for Coral Reef Resistance Into Global Conservation Planning and Policy	4
Identifying climate‐smart tropical Key Biodiversity Areas for protection in response to widespread temperature novelty	4

Supply Chain Sustainability Standards in Temperate Farming Commodities	4
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An operational methodology to identify Critical Ecosystem Areas to help nations achieve the Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework	3
Now is not tomorrow	3
To conserve African tropical forests, invest in the protection of its most endangered group of monkeys, red colobus	3
Anchoring India's Umbrella Species to Biodiversity and Climate Gains	3
Connectivity of Forest Patches via Wooded Corridors Increases Biodiversity at Low, but Not High, Forest Amounts	3
Trees on farms improve dietary quality in rural Malawi	3
Creating an Authorizing Environment to Care for Country	3
Performance of protected areas in conserving African elephants	3
Hunting trophy import bans proposed by the UK may be ineffective and inequitable as conservation policies in multiple social‐ecological contexts	3
Estimating Causal Impacts of Human Recreation on Wildlife in the Absence of Experimental Controls	3
Protected areas still used to produce Brazil's cattle	3
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Improving the Classification of Wildlife Conservation Status to Support Nature Protection in the European Union	3
Corporate Biodiversity Reporting Can Be Scaled With AI and Earth Observation—But Will Miss the Point Without Guidance From Conservation Scientists	3
Bats as a Model for Enhancing IUCN Red List Assessments: Real‐Time Data, Contributor Networks, and Specialized Training to Address Common Challenges	3
Prevalence of Red List DD Species Limits the Application of the EDGE Approach for Fungi	3
Harnessing Solar Energy to Reduce Sea Turtle Bycatch	3
The last stand: Demographic and population genomic analysis reveals terminal endangerment in tropical timber species Vatica guangxiensis	3
The perils of measuring biodiversity responses to habitat change using mixed metrics	3
Paleogenomics‐Informed Inferences of European Dog Admixture Enables Scalable Dingo Conservation	3
Open sharing in Conservation AI: Benefits and Barriers	3
Flexible Climate Adaptation Can Substantially Reduce Conservation Costs and Mitigate Risk	3
Lead‐based ammunition is a threat to the endangered New Zealand Kea ( Nestor notabilis )	3
Assessing the value of citizen scientist observations in tracking the abundance of marine fishes	3
Collaborative conservation for snow leopards: Lessons learned from successful community‐based interventions	3
Ethical and mental health considerations for research into trade and trafficking of natural resources	3
Rotational fishery closures could enhance coral recovery in systems with alternative states	3
Scaling Out Community Conservation Initiatives: Experts Identify Economic and Social Benefits, Compatibility With Needs, and External Support as Key	3
A roadmap integrating research, policy, and actions to conserve Afro‐Palearctic migratory landbirds at a flyway scale	3
Corporate disclosures need a biodiversity outcome focus and regulatory backing to deliver global conservation goals	3
Political Extinction Risk Under the U.S. Endangered Species Act	3