“We’ve always known that vultures [are] valuable in terms of their role in the ecosystem,” Lovelater Sembele, senior vulture conservation officer for Southern Africa at BirdLife ...

The concept of umbrella species is the central tenet of a conservation strategy that focuses on protecting the habitat of one species in the hope of protecting many others in the same ecosystem. But ...

The evident importance of ecosystem services in the region supports the rationale for taking a precautionary approach to the conservation of ecosystem services. Unfortunately, ecosystem services are ...

Dr. Gavin M. Jones (USDA Forest Service) and colleagues contend that current conservation models often resist natural ecosystem processes such as wildfire, leading to a "backfire effect" that ...