Sean L. Maxwell

TL;DR: An analysis of threat information gathered for more than 8,000 species revealed that overexploitation and agriculture are by far the biggest drivers of biodiversity decline.

TL;DR: It is argued that maintaining and, where possible, restoring the integrity of dwindling intact forests is an urgent priority for current global efforts to halt the ongoing biodiversity crisis, slow rapid climate change and achieve sustainability goals.

TL;DR: Use of the most comprehensive global map of human pressure shows that 6 million square kilometers (32.8%) of protected land is under intense human pressure, showing that they are potentially effective, at least in some nations.

TL;DR: To be more successful after 2020, area-based conservation must contribute more effectively to meeting global biodiversity goals-ranging from preventing extinctions to retaining the most-intact ecosystems-and must better collaborate with the many Indigenous peoples, community groups and private initiatives that are central to the successful conservation of biodiversity.

TL;DR: This work generates the first globally-consistent, continuous index of forest condition as determined by degree of anthropogenic modification, by integrating data on observed and inferred human pressures and an index of lost connectivity.