The performance and potential of protected areas

Protected area downgrading, downsizing, and degazettement (PADDD) in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean, 1900–2010

(2014) Michael B. Mascia et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Global conservation outcomes depend on marine protected areas with five key features

(2014) Graham J. Edgar et al.   NATURE

Recovery of a Temperate Reef Assemblage in a Marine Protected Area following the Exclusion of Towed Demersal Fishing

(2014) Emma V. Sheehan et al.   PLoS One

Targeting Global Protected Area Expansion for Imperiled Biodiversity

(2014) Oscar Venter et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Global spatial coincidence between protected areas and metal mining activities

(2013) América P. Durán et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Effectiveness of terrestrial protected areas in reducing habitat loss and population declines

(2013) Jonas Geldmann et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Continental-Scale Governance and the Hastening of Loss of Australia's Biodiversity

(2013) Euan G. Ritchie et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Mountain gorilla tourism generating wealth and peace in post-conflict Rwanda

(2013) Miko Maekawa et al.   NATURAL RESOURCES FORUM

Behavior of the Galapagos fishing fleet and its consequences for the design of spatial management alternatives for the red spiny lobster fishery

(2013) Santiago J. Bucaram et al.   OCEAN & COASTAL MANAGEMENT

Devastating Decline of Forest Elephants in Central Africa

(2013) Fiona Maisels et al.   PLoS One

Protected Areas in South Asia Have Not Prevented Habitat Loss: A Study Using Historical Models of Land-Use Change

(2013) Natalie E. Clark et al.   PLoS One

Protected Areas and Effective Biodiversity Conservation

(2013) S. Le Saout et al.   SCIENCE

Mining and the African Environment

(2013) David P. Edwards et al.   Conservation Letters

Mapping vulnerability and conservation adaptation strategies under climate change

(2013) James E. M. Watson et al.   Nature Climate Change

Safeguarding ecosystem services and livelihoods: Understanding the impact of conservation strategies on benefit flows to society

(2013) Louise Willemen et al.   Ecosystem Services

The size of savannah Africa: a lion’s (Panthera leo) view

(2012) Jason Riggio et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Estimating management costs of protected areas: A novel approach from the Eastern Arc Mountains, Tanzania

(2012) Jonathan M.H. Green et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Bolder Thinking for Conservation

(2012) REED F. NOSS et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

To boldly go where no volunteer has gone before: predicting volunteer activity to prioritize surveys at the landscape scale

(2012) Ayesha I. T. Tulloch et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

A critical review of environmental management of the ‘not so Great’ Barrier Reef

(2012) Jon Brodie et al.   ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE

Saving the superstar: A review of the social factors affecting tiger conservation in India

(2012) Archi Rastogi et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas

(2012) William F. Laurance et al.   NATURE

Payments for ecosystem services in an African protected area: exploring issues of legitimacy, fairness, equity and effectiveness

(2012) Nicole D. Gross-Camp et al.   ORYX

Protecting Important Sites for Biodiversity Contributes to Meeting Global Conservation Targets

(2012) Stuart H. M. Butchart et al.   PLoS One

Ecosystem service tradeoff analysis reveals the value of marine spatial planning for multiple ocean uses

(2012) C. White et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Financial Costs of Meeting Global Biodiversity Conservation Targets: Current Spending and Unmet Needs

(2012) D. P. McCarthy et al.   SCIENCE

What works for threatened species recovery? An empirical evaluation for Australia

(2011) Martin F. J. Taylor et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Oil and gas development in the World Heritage and wider protected area network in sub-Saharan Africa

(2011) Matea Osti et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Now or never: what will it take to save the Sumatran rhinoceros Dicerorhinus sumatrensis from extinction?

(2011) Abdul Wahab Ahmad Zafir et al.   ORYX

Conditions associated with protected area success in conservation and poverty reduction

(2011) P. J. Ferraro et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Reassessing the forest impacts of protection

(2010) Lucas Joppa et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Large mammal population declines in Africa’s protected areas

(2010) Ian D. Craigie et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Do community-conserved areas effectively conserve biological diversity? Global insights and the Indian context

(2010) Ghazala Shahabuddin et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

The Culture of Conservation Biologists: Show Me the Hope!

(2010) Ronald R. Swaisgood et al.   BIOSCIENCE

A Global Analysis of Protected Area Management Effectiveness

(2010) Fiona Leverington et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Securing tropical forest carbon: the contribution of protected areas to REDD

(2010) Jörn P. W. Scharlemann et al.   ORYX

Role of Brazilian Amazon protected areas in climate change mitigation

(2010) B. Soares-Filho et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Protected area downgrading, downsizing, and degazettement (PADDD) and its conservation implications

(2010) Michael B. Mascia et al.   Conservation Letters

Bringing the Tiger Back from the Brink—The Six Percent Solution

(2010) Joe Walston et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Expansion of the global terrestrial protected area system

(2009) Clinton N. Jenkins et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Wilderness and future conservation priorities in Australia

(2009) James E.M. Watson et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Biological effects within no-take marine reserves: a global synthesis

(2009) SE Lester et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Mapping terrestrial anthropogenic degradation on the inhabited islands of the Galapagos Archipelago

(2009) James Watson et al.   ORYX

A Global Perspective on Trends in Nature-Based Tourism

(2009) Andrew Balmford et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

State Failure, Corruption, and Warfare: Challenges for Forest Policy

(2008) Lloyd C. Irland   Journal of Sustainable Forestry