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Canada’s human footprint reveals large intact areas juxtaposed against areas under immense anthropogenic pressure

Happy to share our open access publication that was produced as part of Kristen Hirsh-Pearson’s thesis research that was published in FACETS: Canada’s human footprint reveals large intact areas juxtaposed against areas under immense anthropogenic pressure Our data can be found under the data availability statement in the information section of the article and is…

Most species’ declines can be attributed to habitat loss, but there is more to extinction risk than just habitat loss

CSL student Juan Pablo Ramírez-Delgado led an international team to measure the relationship between habitat fragmentation, matrix condition and the change in the risk of extinction of 4,426 terrestrial mammals. The resulting paper, just published in Nature Communications, revealed that the effects of habitat fragmentation on the risk of species extinction are mediated by the…

UNBC PhD candidate Jose Aragon is part of an international research team recognized for its work supporting the United Nations sustainable development goals in South America

Aragon collaborated on a project funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) that received a Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Sustainable Development Goal Award. The award, in the intergovernmental category, was presented to project partners United Nations Development Program Colombia, United Nations Development Program Ecuador and United Nations Development Program Peru. “Conservation is…