Freshwater biodiversity, from fish to frogs and microbes to macrophytes, provides a vast
array of services to people. Mounting concerns focus on the accelerating pace of biodiversity …

The world is calling for ambitious conservation targets for the Amazon, the world's largest
hydrographic basin, with an aim to protect 80% of the biome by 2025. With less than two …

Freshwater ecosystems are poorly represented in global networks of protected areas. This
situation underscores an urgent need for the creation, application, and expansion of durable …

Abstract The United Nations' Convention on Biological Diversity set forth the 30× 30 target,
an agenda for countries to protect at least 30% of their terrestrial, inland water, and coastal …

Dams are socio‐ecological structures fundamentally serving human population growth and
economic development. Yet, dams have significantly reduced landscape connectivity …

Free-flowing rivers (FFRs) provide valuable ecosystem services to society, but the
construction of dams threatens to negatively impact many of these ecosystems worldwide by …

Fluvial ecosystems are essential for life on Earth. Despite this recognition and the growing
implementation of restoration programs, measures aimed at halting riverine biodiversity's …

Most of Europe's rivers are highly fragmented by barriers. This study examines legal
protection schemes, that specifically aim at preserving the free-flowing character of rivers …

As conservation is an increasingly championed tool to promote nature-based adaptation
strategies and ecosystem service and freshwater biodiversity protection, taking lessons from …

The establishment of protected areas for a river (PARs) is an efficient approach for the
conservation of its ecosystem and biodiversity. This study selected the free-flowing Qingzhu …