Payment for Ecosystem Service (PES) initiatives are a popular and wide-spread market-based approach to mitigating detrimental impacts of rapid land-use change that threatens vital ecological resources such as water, soil, ...

As is the case with all sea turtle species, the five species that occur within North Carolina waters are listed as either threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act of 1973. Due to their endangered/threatened ...

The global extent of mangrove forests has been rapidly declining in recent decades, raising concerns about the loss of the ecological and social services they provide. There is an increasing urgency to understand best approaches ...

Balancing development and conservation is a struggle that all countries face, but is especially difficult in tropical, developing nations. Development activities in these nations often rely on extractive industries to diversify ...

Tigers, the largest of the felids, are now a globally threatened species with only approximately 3000 wild tigers surviving. India contains about 60% or 2000 of the animals, yet despite aggressive conservation efforts the ...

As the human population increases and climate change exacerbates resource scarcity, India’s wildlife faces the increasing threat of fragmentation and habitat loss in a human-centric landscape. The wild exists in ...

Coral reefs are one of the most critically threatened habitats. Climate change, pollution, and direct human impact are destroying coral reefs all over the world. Singapore is a small island nation that has destroyed almost ...

The Duke Lemur Center (DLC) is a founding member of the Madagascar Fauna Group (MFG), a consortium of zoos and botanical gardens that promotes biodiversity conservation in Madagascar. The MFG’s in-country programs include ...

Payments for Environmental Services (PES) that give landowners a financial incentive to manage their land to provide valuable environmental services may provide an efficient way to conserve forest land and improve the livelihoods ...

The Madre de Dios river basin in southeastern Peru is one of the largest and most diverse forest ecosystems on the planet. Though conservation zones with strict protection do exist in the basin, human population growth ...