Articles about 'Toby Gardner'

One of the largest area studies of forest loss impacting biodiversity shows that a third of the Amazon is headed toward or has just past a threshold of forest cover below which species loss is faster and more damaging. Researchers call for conservation policy to switch from targeting individual landowners to entire regions.

The Amazon rainforest faces an uncertain future – one that an international research network hopes to help steer towards sustainability.

As the deadline fast approaches for higher education institutions to submit the evidence on which the quality of their research will be assessed, Dr Toby Gardner asks how applied research can best deliver tangible contributions to achieving society’s goals.