Abstract The 2019 United Nations Global assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem
services estimated that approximately 1 million species are at risk of extinction. This …

This review describes outcomes of a 2010 horizon-scanning exercise building upon the first
exercise conducted in 2009. The aim of both horizon scans was to identify emerging issues …

Preservation of natural and cultural heritage is often said to be something that is done for the
future, or on behalf of future generations, but the precise relationship of such practices to the …

Simultaneous environmental changes challenge biodiversity persistence and human
wellbeing. The science and practice of restoration ecology, in collaboration with other …

This paper draws on the Foucauldian notion of biopower to renarrate the development of
conservation science in the US as a form of liberal biopolitical rule. With its emphasis on …

Background After three decades of research aimed at recovering DNA from preserved
remains, the field of ancient DNA is moving rapidly toward the sequencing and analysis of …

An estimated 2 billion ha of forests are degraded globally and global change suggests even
greater need for forest restoration. Four forest restoration paradigms are identified and …

De‐extinction, the idea that extinct species might soon be resurrected, receives
considerable attention in both popular and scientific literature, in particular with regard to its …

Cloning as it relates to the animal kingdom generally refers to the production of genetically
identical individuals. Because cloning is increasingly the subject of renewed attention as a …

The resurrection approach of reviving ancestors from stored propagules and comparing
them with descendants under common conditions has emerged as a powerful method of …