Conservation Letters

Article	Citations
Issue Information	121
Land‐cover and land‐use change trajectory hopping facilitates estate‐crop expansion into protected forests in Indonesia	80
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Concrete Habitat Severely Decreases the Reproductive Output of Two Urban Birds	55
European Habitats Directive has fostered monitoring but not prevented species declines	51
Collaborative fisheries research reveals reserve size and age determine efficacy across a network of marine protected areas	51
Political Will Has Been Critical for Protecting Forests in the Brazilian Amazon and Indonesia	48
Climate change and energy crisis drive an unprecedented EU environmental law regression	43
What Comes After the European Green Deal? Analyzing the State and Perspective of the EU's Land Use and Conservation Policy	43
Simulating Demography, Monitoring, and Management Decisions to Evaluate Adaptive Management Strategies for Endangered Species	41
The Forgotten International Trade of Sawfish Rostral Teeth in Latin America	40
Rewilding and Indigenous‐Led Land Care Are Not Compatible Ideas	34
Beyond Blame: Migration's Limited Role in Madagascar's Deforestation	34
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Integrated systematic planning and adaptive stakeholder process support a 10‐fold increase in South Africa's Marine Protected Area estate	30
Nature and equity	30
First Evidence of Individual Sharks Involved in Multiple Predatory Bites on People	30
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The Many Pathways of Mining Impacts on Biodiversity	29
Marine Subsidies Fortify a Stronghold for a Freshwater Megafish ( Hucho taimen )	25
What Drives Conservation Adoption? Social Science Insights from Cattle Ranchers in the Pantanal Wetland, Brazil	25
Naming It Is Not Enough: An Orienting Map for Understanding Conservation's Entanglement With Power	25
From Alerts to Action: Operationalizing Real‐Time Mortality Monitoring for Vultures	25
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Phylogenetic relationships of invasive plants are useful criteria for weed risk assessments	24

Conservation and human rights: The public commitments of international conservation organizations	23
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Co‐benefits for terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystem services available from contrasting land protection policies in the contiguous United States	22
Remote seamounts are key conservation priorities for pelagic wildlife	21
Applying the Key Biodiversity Area Standard to Important Sites for Sharks	20
Bycatch in drift gillnet fisheries: A sink for Indian Ocean cetaceans	19
Languages of Life: A Global Perspective on Linguistic Priorities for Biodiversity Conservation	19
Conserving urban biodiversity: Current practice, barriers, and enablers	19
Risky business: Protecting nature, protecting wealth?	18
Addressing Gaps in Butterfly Population Monitoring to Catalyze Global Insect Conservation	17
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Mapping Multiple Wild Pig Species’ Population Dynamics in Southeast Asia During the African Swine Fever Outbreak (2018–2024)	17
The Neocolonial Tightening of CITES: How Northern Narratives Marginalize Southern Conservation	17
Citizen Science Offers Untapped Potential for Conservation Through Research Flexibility	16
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Kleptoparasitism in seabirds—A potential pathway for global avian influenza virus spread	16
What is the value of biotic seed dispersal in post‐fire forest regeneration?	15
How Do We Identify Anthropogenic Allee Effects in the Wildlife Trade?	15
Stakeholder‐derived recommendations and actions to support deep‐reef conservation in the Western Indian Ocean	15
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Contributions of small‐scale and longline fishing to sea turtle mortality in the Solomon Islands	14
Now What? The Conundrum of Successful Recovery of Wolves and Other Species for European Conservation	14
What starts with laughter ends in tears: Invasive alien species regulations should not hinder scientific research	14
Does biodiversity‐focused protection of the seabed deliver carbon benefits? A U.K. case study	14
The costs and benefits of publicising species discoveries	14
Conflict between cultural development and wildlife conservation: A potential threat to Reeves's pheasant ( Syrmaticus reevesii )	14
Positive effects of fragmentation per se on the most iconic metapopulation	14
Avoid Sacrificing Nature to Truly Achieve Net Zero	14
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Acoustic Indices Predict Recovery of Tropical Bird Communities for Taxonomic and Functional Composition	14
Fish aggregating devices could enhance the effectiveness of blue water marine protected areas	14
Who cares about monarch butterflies? Comparing US State Wildlife Action Plans 2015–2025	13
Urgent Policy Change Is Needed to Understand the Dimensions of Legal International Wildlife Trade to Enable Targeted Management	13
The Effect of Federal Delisting on US Wolf Population Dynamics	13
Online Marketplaces’ Anti‐Data Collection Policies Hinder Research on Biodiversity Conservation and Zoonotic Disease Prevention	13
A consumption‐based analysis of extinction risk in Australia	12
Realizing “30 × 30” in India: The potential, the challenges, and the way forward	12
Collective PES Contracts Can Motivate Institutional Creation to Conserve Forests: Experimental Evidence	12
Insights from diplomacy for the prevention and resolution of conservation conflicts	12
Passive Acoustic Gliders Are Effective Monitoring Tools for Dynamic Management Plans Aimed at Mitigating Whale‐Vessel Strikes	12
Testing an intervention codesigned with stakeholders for altering wildlife consumption: Health messaging matters	12
A Survey of Mammal and Fish Genetic Diversity Across the Global Protected Area Network	11
An Assessment of the Fish Maw Trade in Singapore and Malaysia Reveals Threatened Species and Highlights the Need for a More Complete Assessment of the Conservation Status of the World's Fishes	11
Existing indicators do not adequately monitor progress toward meeting invasive alien species targets	11
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Addressing the Southeast Asian snaring crisis: Impact of 11 years of snare removal in a biodiversity hotspot	11
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Madagascar's Urban Lemur Meat Trade	10
Support for the US Endangered Species Act Is High and Steady Over the Past Three Decades	10

A Novel Fundraising Model for Conservation of a Noncharismatic Species: Lessons Learned From a Crowd‐Funded Eco‐Art Exhibition	10
The fear factor—Snakes in Africa might be at an alarming extinction risk	10
Fisheries outcomes of marine protected area networks: Levels of protection, connectivity, and time matter	10
What Will Count?—Evidence for the Global Recognition of Other Effective area–based Conservation Measures	10
A criminal justice response to address the illegal trade of wildlife in Indonesia	10
Colluding rhino poachers exploit space–time variation in opportunity and risk	10
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Wild goose chase: Geese flee high and far, and with aftereffects from New Year's fireworks	9
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Advances and shortfalls in applying best practices to global tree‐growing efforts	9
The biodiversity adaptation gap: Management actions for marine protected areas in the face of climate change	9
Using weather radar to help minimize wind energy impacts on nocturnally migrating birds	9
Rewilding and Indigenous Community‐Led Land Care	9
Destructive fishing: An expert‐driven definition and exploration of this quasi‐concept	9
Relational Commons: An Ontological and Governance Framework Beyond Protected Areas and the Boundaries of Conservation	9
Quantitative impacts of hydroelectric dams on the trans‐Amazonian migrations of goliath catfish	9
Benchmarking fish biodiversity of seaports with eDNA and nearby marine reserves	9
Foraging mode affects extinction risk of snakes and lizards, but in different ways	9
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Tropical field stations yield high conservation return on investment	8
Multilayer Network Analysis Reveals Connectivity Synergies Between Protected Area Levels Across Various Taxonomic Groups	8
Hunting for Sustainability: Indigenous Stewardship in the Cofán Territory of Zábalo	8
Marine Conservation Leadership: Does Australia Walk the Talk?	8
Correction to: Using nonhuman culture in conservation requires careful and concerted action	8
Testing the Effect of Different Risk Messages on Intention to Consume Animal‐Based Medicinal Wine	8
Resolving Uncertainties in the Legality of Wildlife Trade to Support Better Outcomes for Wildlife and People	8
Too hot to hunt: Mechanistic predictions of thermal refuge from cat predation risk	8
An antiracist, anticolonial agenda for urban greening and conservation	8
The Untapped Potential of Food Webs in Systematic Conservation Planning	8
Use Real‐Time Mortality Alerts to Save Vultures	7
Mismatch Between Global Importance of Peatlands and the Extent of Their Protection	7
Parachute conservation: Investigating trends in international research	7
Taking Action to Avoid Extinction: Successful Regional‐Scale Lethal Control of Barred Owls Supports a Federal Strategy to Save Spotted Owls	7
Global Conservation Status of Key Areas for Climate Diversity	7
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Essential planetary health workers: Positioning rangers within global policy	7
Wilderness Quality, Habitat Connectivity, and the Effectiveness of Protected Areas Diminish as Human Activities Intensify	7
Future‐Proofing Natura 2000 Through a Biocultural Approach	7
Invasion trends: An interpretable measure of change is needed to support policy targets	7
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An Updated DNA Barcoding Tool for Aloe Vera and Related CITES‐Regulated Species	6
Reimagining protected and conserved areas in Africa: Perspectives from the first Africa Protected Areas Congress	6
Masculinities in Conservation Science, Policy and Practice: A Qualitative Systematic Review	6
Avoid Cherry‐Picking Targets and Embrace Holistic Conservation to Pursue the Global Biodiversity Framework	6
Conservation responsibility for bird species in tropical logged forests	6
Do 50‐year‐old Ramsar criteria still do the best possible job? A plea for broadened scientific underpinning of the global protection of wetlands and migratory waterbirds	6
Asia's Wolves and Synergies With Big Cats	6
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Who Wants What and Why: A Typology for Clarifying Common Interest in Conservation	6
Unlocking the Value of Ranger‐Based Monitoring for Biodiversity Conservation and Protected Area Management	6
Horizon scanning for potential invasive non‐native species across the United Kingdom Overseas Territories	5
Data‐driven counterfactual evaluation of management outcomes to improve emergency conservation decisions	5
Global Biodiversity Framework Targets Can Drive Action on Insect Declines, but Lack Robust Indicators to Prove Their Effectiveness	5
Correction to “Protect the Integrity of CITES: Lessons From Japan's IWC Withdrawal to Keep Polarization From Tearing CITES Apart”	5
Novel operational index reveals rapid recovery of genetic connectivity in freshwater fish species after riverine restoration	5
Recognizing culturally significant species and Indigenous‐led management is key to meeting international biodiversity obligations	5
Explicit incentives increase citizen science recordings	5
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Fisher–shark interactions: A loss of support for the Maldives shark sanctuary from reef fishers whose livelihoods are affected by shark depredation	5
Urgent actions needed by digital services platforms to help achieve conservation and public health goals	5
Historical maps improve the identification of forests with potentially high conservation value	5
Evolution and Viability of Asian Horseshoe Crabs Appear Tightly Linked to Geo‐Climatic Dynamics in the Sunda Shelf	5
Genetic Homogenization and Conservation Challenges Associated With Chinese Giant Salamander Release Programs: Insights From Environmental DNA	5
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Integrating an Eco‐Evolutionary Perspective for Coral Reef Resistance Into Global Conservation Planning and Policy	5
Hunting trophy import bans proposed by the UK may be ineffective and inequitable as conservation policies in multiple social‐ecological contexts	4
Identifying climate‐smart tropical Key Biodiversity Areas for protection in response to widespread temperature novelty	4
Scaling Out Community Conservation Initiatives: Experts Identify Economic and Social Benefits, Compatibility With Needs, and External Support as Key	4
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Greenwashing Marine Conservation: The Use of Artificial Reefs for Fisheries and Coral Restoration Needs Oversight	4
From Data to Decision: Leveraging Essential Variables in Standardizing Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Monitoring and Reporting	4
Megaherbivores and Mega‐Infrastructure in East Africa	4
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Could environmental and conservation sciences benefit from an anonymized journal?	4
Corporate disclosures need a biodiversity outcome focus and regulatory backing to deliver global conservation goals	4
Science‐based planning can support law enforcement actions to curb deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon	4

Creating an Authorizing Environment to Care for Country	3
The perils of measuring biodiversity responses to habitat change using mixed metrics	3
Corporate Biodiversity Reporting Can Be Scaled With AI and Earth Observation—But Will Miss the Point Without Guidance From Conservation Scientists	3
Prevalence of Red List DD Species Limits the Application of the EDGE Approach for Fungi	3
The last stand: Demographic and population genomic analysis reveals terminal endangerment in tropical timber species Vatica guangxiensis	3
Rotational fishery closures could enhance coral recovery in systems with alternative states	3
Beyond inappropriate fire regimes: A synthesis of fire‐driven declines of threatened mammals in Australia	3
Performance of protected areas in conserving African elephants	3
Political Extinction Risk Under the U.S. Endangered Species Act	3
A roadmap integrating research, policy, and actions to conserve Afro‐Palearctic migratory landbirds at a flyway scale	3
Harnessing Solar Energy to Reduce Sea Turtle Bycatch	3
Protected areas still used to produce Brazil's cattle	3
Flexible Climate Adaptation Can Substantially Reduce Conservation Costs and Mitigate Risk	3
To conserve African tropical forests, invest in the protection of its most endangered group of monkeys, red colobus	3
Estimating Causal Impacts of Human Recreation on Wildlife in the Absence of Experimental Controls	3
An operational methodology to identify Critical Ecosystem Areas to help nations achieve the Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework	3
Trees on farms improve dietary quality in rural Malawi	3
Assessing the value of citizen scientist observations in tracking the abundance of marine fishes	3
Connectivity of Forest Patches via Wooded Corridors Increases Biodiversity at Low, but Not High, Forest Amounts	3
Ethical and mental health considerations for research into trade and trafficking of natural resources	3
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Blue Spots: A Novel Framework to Leverage Non‐Extractive Economies for Ocean Conservation	3
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Collaborative conservation for snow leopards: Lessons learned from successful community‐based interventions	3
Bats as a Model for Enhancing IUCN Red List Assessments: Real‐Time Data, Contributor Networks, and Specialized Training to Address Common Challenges	3
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How can the European Common Agricultural Policy help halt biodiversity loss? Recommendations by over 300 experts	3