Protected Areas
This acronym refers to the debate over whether to have one large or several small reserves.
What is SLOSS?
This recovery project combined Indigenous leadership, habitat protection, and predator management to restore a species.
What is the Klinse-Za caribou recovery?
This process is defined as halting and reversing degradation, resulting in improved ecosystem services and recovered biodiversity.
What is Ecological Restoration?
Overexploitation is ranked _____ as a major driver of global biodiversity decline.
What is second?
This type of turbine can operate in deep-water, high-wind locations.
What is floating offshore wind?
Maintaining these between habitats allows gene flow, species movement, and climate adaptation.
What is connectivity?
Protecting only breeding habitat of migratory species often fails because threats also occur on these locations.
What are wintering and stopover habitats?
This conservation strategy involves intentionally moving a species to a new location outside its historical range because its current habitat is no longer viable due to climate change.
What is Assisted Migration?
High-yield farming separated from fully protected natural areas.
What is land sparing?
If humanity stops all net greenhouse gas emissions, this will also stop.
What is global warming?
This ecological theory predicts species richness and persistence in protected areas of different sizes.
What is island biogeography theory?
A model used to estimate extinction risk under different scenarios.
What is Population Viability Analysis (PVA)?
This extinct bird, whose last known member was a female named Martha, is a target for a de-extinction project led by Revive & Restore.
What is the Passenger Pigeon?
This sector of food production involves the farming of aquatic organisms, such as salmon, shrimp, and shellfish, in controlled or semi-controlled environments.
What is Aquaculture?
This term describes a species that has been introduced by human activity outside of its native range, but has not yet caused ecological or economic harm.
What is an introduced species?
This ecological phenomenon occurs at the boundary between habitats, often altering microclimate, species interactions.
What are edge effects?
Invasive species are the sole cause of extinction in roughly this percentage of global extinction cases, according to the IPBES assessment.
What is 16%?
This powerful, precise gene-editing tool is necessary to insert selected extinct-species genes into the genome of a living relative.
What is CRISPR?
Land sparing outperforms land sharing under these ecological and yield conditions.
What are high species sensitivity farmland, large yield differences, and ecosystem damage minimized?
This is the formal, iterative process of treating management interventions as scientific experiments by explicitly testing hypotheses, monitoring outcomes, and continuously learning from the results.
What is Adaptive Management?
This conservation approach focuses on strict protected areas with little to no human presence, often excluding local and Indigenous communities.
What is fortress conservation?
This invasive plant species, often recognized by its vibrant purple flowers, is managed in some areas using introduced biological control agents, specifically leaf-chewing beetles.
What is Purple Loosestrife?
This intervention describes the American Chestnut project, where genes for blight resistance are introduced to a surviving species line.
What is genetic rescue?
This fishing method was controversially MSC certified for Canadian swordfish despite resulting in high bycatch of sea turtles and sharks.
What is Longlining?
Planning that includes multiple stakeholders improves legitimacy, compliance, and ecological outcomes.
What is participatory conservation planning?