Costs in conservation: Common costly mistakes and how to avoid them

VM Adams - PLoS biology, 2024 - journals.plos.org
There has been an increasingly prevalent message that data regarding costs must be
included in conservation planning activities to make cost-efficient decisions. Despite the …

Discerning the state of the art in Italy of voluntary disclosure on biodiversity and endemic species

S Solimene, D Coluccia, S Fontana… - Meditari Accountancy …, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose This study aims to examine the extent and quality of biodiversity reporting within
publicly traded companies in Italy during 2022, amidst growing calls worldwide for …

Dealing with the risk of fire in carbon sequestration strategies: Diverse forests or plantation monocultures?

WJS Smith, SA Bekessy, M Ward… - … Science and Practice, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Climate and land‐use change pose unprecedented threats to ecosystems, economies, and
communities worldwide. To help mitigate the climate crisis, restoration is a rapidly growing …

The cost of recovering Australia's threatened species

AE Reside, J Carwardine, M Ward, C Yong… - Nature Ecology & …, 2024 - nature.com
Accounting for the cost of repairing the degradation of Earth's biosphere is critical to guide
conservation and sustainable development decisions. Yet the costs of repairing nature …

Cost-benefit analysis of working with recovery in river management using Marxan

D Agnew, K Fryirs, MR Leishman - Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2024 - frontiersin.org
With the impact and cost of continued river degradation and climate change-induced
extreme rainfall and floods, there is growing urgency to achieve and maintain good river …

Species and ecological communities as management surrogates for threatened biodiversity

J Olivares-Rojas, CN Cook, MS Ward… - Biodiversity and …, 2024 - Springer
In the face of the ongoing biodiversity crisis and limited conservation funding, surrogate
approaches have become a valuable tool to represent biodiversity. Management surrogates …

Limits to the ability of carbon farming projects to deliver benefits for threatened species

JE Engert, P van Oosterzee - Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2024 - nature.com
Australia has proposed a legislated market for biodiversity based on an existing carbon
credits scheme which generates Australian carbon credit units (ACCU) from land-based …

A report card to effectively communicate threatened species recovery

M Ward, TM Rout, HP Possingham, R Stewart… - One Earth, 2024 - cell.com
Earth's anthropogenic-driven species extinction crisis is worsening. Communicating this
crisis to diverse audiences is needed to catalyze action, yet it is proving difficult. To help …

Accounting for the true costs of recovery of threatened species

AE Reside, J Carwardine, JEM Watson - Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2025 - nature.com
New comprehensive datasets of threats to species, management actions and costs of these
actions reveal the total costs of fully recovering all of Australia's threatened species. At AUD …

[HTML][HTML] A framework for ecological restoration cost accounting across context and scale

SE Andres, CH Mills, RV Gallagher, VM Adams - Biological Conservation, 2024 - Elsevier
Restoration programs that can deliver implementation outcomes across large-scales are
critical to achieving global conservation targets such as Target 2 of the Kunming-Montreal …