Expanding global commodities trade and consumption place the world’s primates at risk of extinction

Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems

(2019) Walter Willett et al.   LANCET

Voluntary sustainability standards could significantly reduce detrimental impacts of global agriculture

(2019) W. K. Smith et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

High-risk infrastructure projects pose imminent threats to forests in Indonesian Borneo

(2019) Mohammed Alamgir et al.   Scientific Reports

Why the US–China trade war spells disaster for the Amazon

(2019) Richard Fuchs et al.   NATURE

Risks of Biological Invasion on the Belt and Road

(2019) Xuan Liu et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Worldwide decline of the entomofauna: A review of its drivers

(2019) Francisco Sánchez-Bayo et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Evaluating the impacts of protected areas on human well-being across the developing world

(2019) R. Naidoo et al.   Science Advances

Pathways for agriculture and forestry to contribute to terrestrial biodiversity conservation: A global scenario-study

(2018) Marcel T.J. Kok et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

African apes coexisting with logging: Comparing chimpanzee ( Pan troglodytes troglodytes ) and gorilla ( Gorilla gorilla gorilla ) resource needs and responses to forestry activities

(2018) David Morgan et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Global Demand for Natural Resources Eliminated More Than 100,000 Bornean Orangutans

(2018) Maria Voigt et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Land Use Intensity-Specific Global Characterization Factors to Assess Product Biodiversity Footprints

(2018) Abhishek Chaudhary et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Population surveys of fork-marked dwarf lemurs and needle-clawed galagos

(2018) Derick Nomuh Forbanka   PRIMATES

Present and future biodiversity risks from fossil fuel exploitation

(2018) Michael B. J. Harfoot et al.   Conservation Letters

Primates in peril: the significance of Brazil, Madagascar, Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo for global primate conservation

(2018) Alejandro Estrada et al.   PeerJ

The primate extinction crisis in China: immediate challenges and a way forward

(2018) Baoguo Li et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Small room for compromise between oil palm cultivation and primate conservation in Africa

(2018) Giovanni Strona et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Classifying drivers of global forest loss

(2018) Philip G. Curtis et al.   SCIENCE

Resource extraction and infrastructure threaten forest cover and community rights

(2018) Anthony J. Bebbington et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Near doubling of Brazil’s intensive row crop area since 2000

(2018) Viviana Zalles et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The marker quantification of the Shared Socioeconomic Pathway 2: A middle-of-the-road scenario for the 21st century

(2017) Oliver Fricko et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Energy, land-use and greenhouse gas emissions trajectories under a green growth paradigm

(2017) Detlef P. van Vuuren et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Damming the rivers of the Amazon basin

(2017) Edgardo M. Latrubesse et al.   NATURE

The socio-economics of artisanal mining and bushmeat hunting around protected areas: Kahuzi–Biega National Park and Itombwe Nature Reserve, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

(2017) Charlotte Spira et al.   ORYX

Effect of oil palm sustainability certification on deforestation and fire in Indonesia

(2017) Kimberly M. Carlson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Commercial Agriculture in Tropical Environments

(2017) Peter Goldsmith et al.   Tropical Conservation Science

The changing hydrology of a dammed Amazon

(2017) Kelsie Timpe et al.   Science Advances

Impending extinction crisis of the world’s primates: Why primates matter

(2017) Alejandro Estrada et al.   Science Advances

On the suitability of input–output analysis for calculating product-specific biodiversity footprints

(2016) Daniel Moran et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Balancing hydropower and biodiversity in the Amazon, Congo, and Mekong

(2016) K. O. Winemiller et al.   SCIENCE

Unintended Feedbacks: Challenges and Opportunities for Improving Conservation Effectiveness

(2016) Cecilia Larrosa et al.   Conservation Letters

The Impacts of Oil Palm on Recent Deforestation and Biodiversity Loss

(2016) Varsha Vijay et al.   PLoS One

Rethinking Agricultural Trade Relationships in an Era of Globalization

(2015) Graham K. MacDonald et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Global demand for gold is another threat for tropical forests

(2015) Nora L Alvarez-Berríos et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Future of oil and gas development in the western Amazon

(2015) Matt Finer et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Trading forests: land-use change and carbon emissions embodied in production and exports of forest-risk commodities

(2015) Sabine Henders et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Anticipated climate and land-cover changes reveal refuge areas for Borneo's orang-utans

(2015) Matthew J. Struebig et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Current trends of rubber plantation expansion may threaten biodiversity and livelihoods

(2015) Antje Ahrends et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Brazil's Soy Moratorium

(2015) H. K. Gibbs et al.   SCIENCE

Increasing human dominance of tropical forests

(2015) S. L. Lewis et al.   SCIENCE

Biodiversity conservation: The key is reducing meat consumption

(2015) Brian Machovina et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Increasing Demand for Natural Rubber Necessitates a Robust Sustainability Initiative to Mitigate Impacts on Tropical Biodiversity

(2015) Eleanor Warren-Thomas et al.   Conservation Letters

Alternative futures for Borneo show the value of integrating economic and conservation targets across borders

(2015) Rebecca K. Runting et al.   Nature Communications

Tropical Forests in the Anthropocene

(2014) Yadvinder Malhi et al.   Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Will Oil Palm’s Homecoming Spell Doom for Africa’s Great Apes?

(2014) Serge A. Wich et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Meat consumption: Trends and quality matters

(2014) Maeve Henchion et al.   MEAT SCIENCE

Global diets link environmental sustainability and human health

(2014) David Tilman et al.   NATURE

Conservation Genetics of the Philippine Tarsier: Cryptic Genetic Variation Restructures Conservation Priorities for an Island Archipelago Primate

(2014) Rafe M. Brown et al.   PLoS One

Feeding humanity through global food trade

(2014) Paolo D'Odorico et al.   Earths Future

Climate change, predictive modeling and lemur health: Assessing impacts of changing climate on health and conservation in Madagascar

(2013) Meredith A. Barrett et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Attribution of CO2emissions from Brazilian deforestation to consumers between 1990 and 2010

(2013) Jonas Karstensen et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Spatial decoupling of agricultural production and consumption: quantifying dependences of countries on food imports due to domestic land and water constraints

(2013) Marianela Fader et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Tele-connecting local consumption to global land use

(2013) Yang Yu et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Ecological extinction of the Critically Endangered northern white-cheeked gibbon Nomascus leucogenys in China

(2013) Peng-Fei Fan et al.   ORYX

Elevated rates of gold mining in the Amazon revealed through high-resolution monitoring

(2013) G. P. Asner et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Globalization of land use: distant drivers of land change and geographic displacement of land use

(2013) Patrick Meyfroidt et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Mining and the African Environment

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

Reductions in Primate Abundance and Diversity in a Multiuse Protected Area: Synergistic Impacts of Hunting and Logging in a Congo Basin Forest

(2012) MELISSA J. REMIS et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Global food security, biodiversity conservation and the future of agricultural intensification

(2012) Teja Tscharntke et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

An assessment of deforestation and forest degradation drivers in developing countries

(2012) Noriko Hosonuma et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Global changes in diets and the consequences for land requirements for food

(2012) T. Kastner et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Not by science alone: why orangutan conservationists must think outside the box

(2011) Erik Meijaard et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Community managed forests and forest protected areas: An assessment of their conservation effectiveness across the tropics

(2011) Luciana Porter-Bolland et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Global land use change, economic globalization, and the looming land scarcity

(2011) Eric F. Lambin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Proximate causes of deforestation in the Bolivian lowlands: an analysis of spatial dynamics

(2011) Robert Müller et al.   Regional Environmental Change

A second hydrocarbon boom threatens the Peruvian Amazon: trends, projections, and policy implications

(2010) Matt Finer et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Globalization's effects on world agricultural trade, 1960-2050

(2010) K. Anderson   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Climate benefits of changing diet

(2009) Elke Stehfest et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

The orangutan–oil palm conflict: economic constraints and opportunities for conservation

(2008) Hemanath Swarna Nantha et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Biofuels, biodiversity, and people: Understanding the conflicts and finding opportunities

(2008) Lian Pin Koh et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

New strategies for conserving tropical forests

(2008) R BUTLER et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION