Archive for the "L. N. Joppa" Category

  • Áreas de proteção ambiental aumentam no mundo

    Recent research by Clinton Jenkins and Lucas Joppa is covered by Folha de São Paulo, one of Brazil's largest newspapers. The results of the research showed mixed news for conservation, finding that more of the world than ever is in protected areas, but that many ecosystems still miss the mark. Optimistically though, Brazil has vastly increased the amount of protected area in the Amazon, and Brazil accounts for almost 75% of the world's new protection since 2003! Read more (Portuguese)

  • Policy And Geography Shape Tropical Parks’ Success In Stemming Deforestation, New Paper Finds

    DURHAM, N.C. th Tropical moist forests are home to a majority of the Earth's terrestrial species, yet human activities such as logging, road building and agriculture destroy between one and two million square kilometers of these vital habitats every decade. But a new paper by a trio of Duke University researchers, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, offers cause for cautious optimism th with a major caveat.

  • Flying Blind

    S. R. Loarie, L. N. Joppa, S. L. Pimm, Satellites miss environmental priorities, Trends Ecol. Evol. (2007) See a gallery of images here The Pimm group reports that our ability to monitor the earth from space may be unraveling in an article published online in Trends in Ecology and Evolution. Satellites are an increasingly important tool for monitoring environmental changes from shrinking tropical forests and species extinction to melting icecaps. On October 6th, the United