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Global Biodiversity Outlook (GBO) is the flagship publication of the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD). It is a periodic report that summarizes the latest data on the status and trends of biodiversity and draws conclusions relevant to the further implementation

Biodiversity is being lost at an alarming rate. Today, catastrophic impacts for people and the planet loom closer than ever. This report by the WWF brings together information and knowledge in hope to inspire action to address the critical global

Many countries are moving from a focus on individual MPAs to MPA networks because of the ability of MPA networks to achieve conservation goals more effectively and efficiently than individual MPAs. Networks can protect species that move across different habitats

Marine protected areas (MPAs) have been implemented as a spatial management tool throughout the world in order to meet targets for marine biodiversity conservation. The success of MPAs in achieving biodiversity conservation objectives is strongly dependent on effective management. However,

Despite increasing recognition of the importance of including aspects of ecological functioning in protected area (PA) design, the physical characteristics of habitats and simple measures of species diversity inform most PA designations. Marine and terrestrial ecologists have recently used biological

Efforts to curtail the spread of the coronavirus have let to the unprecedented concurrent confinement of nearly two-thirds of the global population. The large human lockdown and its eventual relaxation can be viewed as a Global Human Confinement Experiment. This

The Mediterranean endemic pen shell Pinna nobilis is suffering a widespread and unprecedented mass mortality event (MME) that started in 2016 in Spain and has rapidly spread eastwards. The species has been recently been listed as critically endangered in the

Connectivity is a fundamental ecological property affecting stability, resilience and recovery of marine populations, in particular in networks of patchy habitats as the mesophotic biogenic habitats of the northern Adriatic Sea. This study performed connectivity simulations over different pelagic propagules

Mauritania is characterized by fast-growing fisheries that have developed over the past several decades from low levels of fishing to intense fishing and have led to severe decreases in biomass and severe signs of overexploitation. To ensure sustainable fisheries, a

The blue Atlantic crab, Callinectes sapidus is a decapod crustacean native to a vast stretch of the western Atlantic seaboard, from Maine to the Río de la Plata. In the Mediterranean the species was accidentally introduced in Greece in 1948