Coral reefs are valuable ecosystems that provide diverse ecosystem services to people. For example, many reefs have exceptionally high tourism value, attracting visitors to experience their ecologically and visually rich reef habitat. However, human-...
Environmental monitoring and assessment
Jun 27, 2025
Mining activities have long been associated with significant environmental impacts, including deforestation, habitat degradation, and biodiversity loss, necessitating targeted strategies like afforestation to mitigate ecological damage. Tata Steel's ...
Environmental monitoring and assessment
Jun 27, 2025
Coral reef managers require various forms of data. While monitoring is typically the preserve of scientists, there is an increasing need to collect larger scale, up-to-date data to prioritise limited conservation resources. Citizen science combined w...
Evidence-based Practice (EBP) is a vital principle, with its origins in the 1970s, that has transformed the disciplines of medicine and healthcare. The use of best available evidence to inform decisions and best practice has since spread across other...
Environmental monitoring and assessment
Jun 23, 2025
The Amazon is recognized not only for its vast biodiversity and territorial extent but also for the significant mineral riches it harbors. This potential has intensified small-scale illegal and informal gold mining, a practice often employed without ...
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
Jun 12, 2025
Monitoring the species-specific sounds produced by insects could provide us with a rapid, reliable, non-invasive measure of tropical ecosystem health and biodiversity. Although acoustic biodiversity monitoring has made rapid progress over the past de...
The critically endangered kākāpō (Strigops habroptilus) has suffered population declines due to habitat loss, hunting, and predation. Conservation efforts, including translocation to predator-free islands, have helped increase numbers of this flightl...
Environmental monitoring and assessment
May 6, 2025
The Mount Kenya forest ecosystem (MKFE), a crucial biodiversity hotspot and one of Kenya's key water towers, is increasingly threatened by climate change, putting its ecological integrity and vital ecosystem services at risk. Understanding the intera...
This research aimed to assess the observed land use and land cover (LULC) changes of Bale Mountains National Park (BMNP) from 1993 to 2023 and its future projections for the years (2033 and 2053). The study utilized multi-date Landsat imagery from 19...
In order to promote the economic structure's green transformation and identify replicable and generalizable practices in green financial development, the Chinese government has established pilot zones for green finance reform and innovation (PZGFRI) ...
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