Connectivity in National Policies: Kenya
Kenya's unique approach to wildlife conservation focuses on decentralized planning that emphasizes community involvement and integrates connectivity to protect dispersal and breeding grounds.
Fence removal improves connectivity for migratory wildebeests
A new approach to identifying areas for fence removal shows that even modest levels of removal can lead to significant gains in connectivity without a huge price tag.
Inclusive conservation can benefit wildlife connectivity
Directly involving local communities in conservation efforts can benefit connectivity for wildlife, especially large carnivores that require large landscapes to roam.
Connectivity in National Policies: Tanzania
Tanzania's protected area network - which includes iconic locations such as Serengeti and Kilimanjaro National Parks - is supported by several national policies that protect and connect the country's biodiversity.
Protecting wetland connectivity along migratory flyways
Waterbirds that travel seasonally between Europe and Africa use protected wetlands along the way, but unprotected wetlands also contribute significantly to flyway connectivity.
How much has tropical forest fragmentation increased across the globe?
A new analysis uses high-resolution forest cover maps to quantify the degree of fragmentation and edge effects in all tropical forests across the globe from 2000-2010.
Connectivity as an integral part of predicting range shifts
Two new studies explore the value of incorporating connectivity to better understand range contractions and expansions.
Wildlife fencing and its contribution to Botswana’s elephant die-off
While the reason for the deaths of 350 elephants in 2020 in northern Botswana may never be known, wildlife fencing and its impact on dispersal was a likely factor.
Using landscape connectivity to predict human-wildlife conflict
Human-wildlife conflict is a considerable challenge, and developing deeper understanding behind the drivers and patterns of conflict can be useful for prevention, mitigation, and management strategies.
Wide conservation corridors lessen edge effects for some arthropods
In a fragmented landscape, edges are important drivers of ecological change. The width of corridors affects how close edges are to each other, with implications for species relying on corridors.
Combining high-tech modelling and low-tech local interviews to map wildlife corridors in Tanzania
Complementary methods reveal the amount of habitat connectivity in Tanzania, the only country in Africa to have assessed its wildlife corridors at the national scale.
Urban corridors: research updates around the globe
Want to catch up on the latest research on urban corridors? We summarize six new studies that lead the way for cities around the world.
How much does animal behavior matter in corridor planning?
When relying on a focal species or suite of species for corridor planning, we know that accurately identifying functional corridors depends on our understanding of those species’ dispersal requirements. But do our typical estimates of [...]
Evaluating strategies for keeping African lions connected
One of the greatest challenges in connectivity planning is creating a conservation strategy that can be applied across multiple species, scales, and/or habitats. With so many different tools and strategies, choosing the right one is [...]
Creating corridors in the tropics based on carbon stock
In the tropics, where aboveground biomass is high and represents a large amount of stored carbon, using carbon stock to delineate corridors represents one potential method for maintaining connectivity in the face of deforestation and [...]
Creating corridors in Rwanda
There is an urgent need for increased connectivity within natural landscapes, to maintain ecosystem processes under continued habitat loss and fragmentation. This is especially true in tropical Africa, where deforestation continues unabated under dense [...]
Wildlife corridors on three continents
Corridors have proliferated in the past decade. Not just plans for corridors, or lines drawn on a map as hypothetical connections, but real corridors intended for the conservation of biodiversity. A recent special feature on [...]
Determining corridor success in Africa
While the success or failure of a wildlife corridor is often measured in terms of ecological benefits, there are other factors at play that can contribute to determining whether the creation and management of a [...]