conservation Archives

Mountain forest landscape with grassy clearing and trees under a partly cloudy sky.

Armenia strengthens its biodiversity agenda ahead of COP17: why it matters now

Feature / Armenia’s biodiversity push ahead of COP17 highlights how ecosystems underpin daily life, resilience and sustainable development.

16 April 2026 / About Adaptation, Ecosystems, Food and agriculture, Forests and Public policy

Seated audience members smile and react to an unseen speaker in a room

SEI at AGU25 Annual Meeting

Past event / SEI US water researchers will share their latest findings and ongoing projects at the AGU25 Annual meeting 15–19 December in New Orleans, Louisiana.

15 December 2025 / About Adaptation, Food and agriculture, Planning and modelling, Water resources and Water-energy-food nexus

Rows of glass lotion and other dispensers stand on a table with people in the background at a trade conference.

Specialty markets: rethinking value chains in the tropics

Perspective / Commodities are not always the answer. Specialties suit development based on livelihood and biodiversity conservation, as well as more sustainable consumption.

15 December 2025 / About Bioeconomy

Two men, wrapped in warm outdoor clothing and hats standing in a moorland landscape. One holds an LED lamp with two hands, level with his head, shining it down onto the ground. Another, standing nearby holds a laptop connected to a number of pieces of scientific equipment on the ground.

Application of a hand-held supplementary light for extending field-based net ecosystem exchange carbon flux measurements in low light conditions

Journal article / Artificial light improves confidence in the measurement of ecosystem exchange rates under limited light conditions.

17 November 2025 / About Climate services and Land use

Overhead view of a dam where the water barrage flows into a turquoise body of water

Integrated mitigation and adaptation planning: using LEAP, WEAP and macroeconomic modelling to plan climate-resilient development

SEI brief / WEAP and LEAP tools can help governments align their mitigation and adaptation strategies to maximize their limited climate finance in water and energy systems.

13 November 2025 / About Adaptation, Energy access and Finance

A man stands on heather moorland with his back to the camera. Directly in front of him, parts of the ground billow smoke as he administers a controlled burn of the heather for land management.

Prescribed heather burning on peatlands: a review of ten key claims made about heather management impacts and implications for future UK policy

Journal article / A total ban on controlled burning is unproductive: alternative heather management planning should be site-specific and include a robust comparison with burning.

29 September 2025 / About Climate services, Land use and Public policy

Forest fires, conflict, and disrupted landscapes

Other publication / This chapter explores how wildfires expose hidden conflicts and power asymmetries in landscape planning, challenging the idea of landscapes as neutral spaces.

18 June 2025 / About Disaster risk and Land use

Hands holding fork and knife and eating delicious juicy steak with grilled cabbage,tomatoes and cheese on table at cafe in city street. Man tasting bbq with vegetables in restaurant

Unveiling pervasive assumptions: moving beyond the poverty-biodiversity loss association in conservation

Journal article / This paper challenges the idea that poverty drives biodiversity loss and proposes a new approach for more just and effective conservation.

16 June 2025

Yuba river with gravel riverbank under blue sky.

Predictability of cottonwood recruitment along a dynamic, regulated river

Journal article / This article investigates the use of different algorithms to predict cottonwood growth around river banks and its implications in river conservation.

14 May 2025 / About Planning and modelling and Water resources