Connected Conservation: Rethinking conservation for a telecoupled world

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dc.creatorCarmenta, Rachel
dc.creatorBarlow, Jos
dc.creatorBastos Lima, Mairon G.
dc.creatorBereguer, Erika
dc.creatorChoiruzzad, Shofwan
dc.creatorEstrada-Carmona, Natalia
dc.creatorFrança, Filipe
dc.creatorKallis, Giorgos
dc.creatorKillick, Evan
dc.creatorLees, Alexander C.
dc.creatorMartin, Adrian
dc.creatorPascual, Unai
dc.creatorPettorelli, Nathalie
dc.creatorReed, James
dc.creatorRodriguez Fernandez, Iokine
dc.creatorSteward, Angela M.
dc.creatorSunderland, Terry
dc.creatorVira, Bhaskar
dc.creatorZaehringer, Julie
dc.creatorHicks, Christina C.
dc.date2023-06
dc.date2023-04-18T14:05:59Z
dc.date2023-04-18T14:05:59Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T14:06:07Z
dc.descriptionThe convergence of the biodiversity and climate crises, widening of wealth inequality, and most recently the COVID-19 pandemic underscore the urgent need to mobilize change to secure sustainable futures. Centres of tropical biodiversity are a major focus of conservation efforts, delivered in predominantly site-level interventions often incorporating alternative-livelihood provision or poverty-alleviation components. Yet, a focus on site-level intervention is ill-equipped to address the disproportionate role of (often distant) wealth in biodiversity collapse. Further these approaches often attempt to ‘resolve’ local economic poverty in order to safeguard biodiversity in a seemingly virtuous act, potentially overlooking local communities as the living locus of solutions to the biodiversity crisis. We offer Connected Conservation: a dual-branched conservation model that commands novel actions to tackle distant wealth-related drivers of biodiversity decline, while enhancing site-level conservation to empower biodiversity stewards. We synthesize diverse literatures to outline the need for this shift in conservation practice. We identify three dominant negative flows arising in centres of wealth that disproportionately undermine biodiversity, and highlight the three key positive, though marginalized, flows that enhance biodiversity and exist within biocultural centres. Connected Conservation works to amplify the positive flows, and diminish the negative flows, and thereby orientates towards desired states with justice at the centre. We identify connected conservation actions that can be applied and replicated to address the telecoupled, wealth-related reality of biodiversity collapse while empowering contemporary biodiversity stewards. The approach calls for conservation to extend its collaborations across sectors in order to deliver to transformative change.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/130039
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/73888
dc.languageen
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceCarmenta, R.; Barlow, J.; Bastos Lima, M.; Bereguer, E.; Choiruzzad, S.; Estrada-Carmona, N.; França, F.; Kallis, G.; Killick, E.; Lees, A.; Martin, A.; Pascual, U.; Pettorelli, N.; Reed, J.; Rodriguez Fernandez, I.; Steward, A.M.; Sunderland, T.; Vira, B.; Zaehringer, J.; Hicks, C.C. (2023) Connected conservation: Rethinking conservation for a telecoupled world. Biological Conservation 282: 110047 10 p. ISSN: 0006-3207
dc.subjectgovernance
dc.subjecttropical forests
dc.subjectindigenous peoples
dc.subjectlocal communities
dc.subjectjustice
dc.titleConnected Conservation: Rethinking conservation for a telecoupled world
dc.typeJournal Article

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