The new University of York Ecological Management Plan is structured around interacting pillars of monitoring and management of biodiversity, education, research and wellbeing.

With the 2030 deadline fast approaching, governments around the world are under growing pressure to fulfil the targets established by the Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.

Jamie Carr highlights the growing call for rights-based, locally led conservation – andhow an international horizon scan will help reveal what it takes to make this vision areality.

Research has shown that conservation campaigns could turn the tide on the illegal ivory trade if they focused less on themes of ‘guilt’ and more on why people want to buy ivory in the first place.