Context Anthropogenic pressures are pushing ecosystems towards collapse by disrupting their structure and functioning. Whilst ecological responses to climate and land cover changes are widely addresse...

Conservation has never lacked ideas. Protected areas, payments for ecosystem services, community management, certification schemes, and public campaigns have all been promoted as solutions to biodiver...

Conservation has never lacked alarming facts. What it increasingly lacks is attention. After years of grim headlines, many people do not just feel sad. They disengage. They stop reading, stop donating...

In our ‘Field Diaries’ series, The Applied Ecologist is sharing stories from a range of different fieldwork experiences. In this post Guilherme Castro shares his research on using remote sensing to…

A eucalyptus boom in Brazil’s biodiverse Cerrado savanna is drying up land and water springs, making subsistence farming more difficult, local authorities and farmers tell Mongabay. Adilso Cruz, a…

Campaigners say targets for woodland creation are unlikely to be met because 95% of grants are for planting

Semi-open ecosystems, such as savannas and open woodlands, are biodiversity hotspots due largely to their heterogeneous tree cover (TC), which support…

The Wakehurst Horticulture team have updated the Living Collection database recording the location and species of all trees across the estate. This information is vital for understanding population de...

Our best chance of stabilising our climate and adapting to the changes ahead lies in protecting and actively restoring nature.

Ecologists differ on whether to steer recovery or let nature take its course

PhD student Guilherme Castro is using high-resolution remote sensing technology to investigate how different land management practices can help to restore our landscapes.

The long read: Across the globe, vast swathes of land are being left to be reclaimed by nature. To see what could be coming, look to Bulgaria