Top 5 Digests of 2025

Several guiding principles provide a comprehensive approach that integrates ecosystem restoration, habitat monitoring, and community engagement to guide managers and policymakers in making decisions that will promote 30×30 goals in coastal ecosystems.

An assessment of the extent and connectivity of protected areas in the United States at four administrative levels finds that less than 3% of the continental U.S. is both connected and protected, and emphasizes the regional and administrative variability of protection.

Incorporating climate information into the planning and siting of wildlife crossings can make them more beneficial to wildlife both now and into the future, with large-scale, long-term collaboration a key to success.

Several possible strategies can help in reducing leakage – when conservation interventions in one geographic area displace extractive activities like mining or fishing to another area – and ultimately make conservation actions more impactful.

A global-wide comparison between continuous and fragmented landscapes leverages data from over 4,000 taxa to refute claims that habitat fragmentation can increase biodiversity at landscape scales, and shows that fragmentation reduces biodiversity at multiple spatial scales in ways that are quantifiable and unrelated to sampling techniques.