Increasingly, people are becoming less likely to have direct contact with nature (natural
environments and their associated wildlife) in their everyday lives. Over 20 years ago …

Local and indigenous knowledge is being transformed globally, particularly being eroded
when pertaining to ecology. In many parts of the world, rural and indigenous communities …

Ecological communities change in time and space, but long-term dynamics at the century-to-
millennia scale are poorly documented due to lack of relevant data sets. Nevertheless …

Although deforestation and forest degradation have long been considered the most
significant threats to tropical biodiversity, across Southeast Asia (Northeast India, Indochina …

Biodiversity is in worldwide decline and it is becoming increasingly important to expand
biodiversity awareness and achieve broad-based support for conservation. We introduce the …

Tropical East Asia is home to over one billion people and faces massive human impacts
from its rising population and rapid economic growth. It has already lost more than half of its …

Local ecological knowledge and the land use practices of forest resource users who rely on
this form of knowledge play a crucial role for biodiversity conservation in managed forests …

The ongoing global biodiversity crisis not only involves biological extinctions, but also the
loss of experience and the gradual fading of cultural knowledge and collective memory of …

Temporal baselines are needed for biodiversity, in order for the change in biodiversity to be
measured over time, the targets for biodiversity conservation to be defined and conservation …

Urbanization and urban lifestyles increasingly disconnect people from nature in a process
that was termed the 'extinction of experience'. This loss of human–nature interactions can …