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Indigenous Peoples are increasingly being sought out for research partnerships that incorporate Indigenous Knowledges into ecology research. In such research partnerships, it is essential that Indigenous data are cared for ethically and responsibly. Here we outline how the ‘CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance’ can sow community ethics into disciplines that are inundated with extractive helicopter research practices, and we provide standardized practices for evolving data and research landscapes.
Machine learning is a popular tool in ecology but many scientific applications suffer from data leakage, causing misleading results. We highlight common pitfalls in ecological machine-learning methods and argue that discipline-specific model info sheets must be developed to aid in model evaluations.
Successful examples of climate and social benefits that derive from national conservation actions may help to catalyse the development of other policies that are designed to maximize these synergies.
Indicators proposed for nutrient and pesticide pollution in the current text of the Convention on Biological Diversity’s post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) are inadequate for tracking progress and informing policy. We highlight a set of more relevant pollution indicators that would strengthen the monitoring framework of the GBF and discuss conditions for their successful implementation.
Capitalizing on developments in genome sequencing technology, the Biodiversity Cell Atlas is a multinational project that uses single-cell transcriptomics to map cell types of whole organisms across the tree of life.
Chemical pollution research should be better integrated with other drivers of biodiversity loss and the assessment of human impacts on ecosystems, to more effectively guide management strategies for biodiversity loss mitigation.
The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures is a key initiative that seeks to convince companies and financial institutions to manage nature-related risks. Its inherent structures — market-led, voluntary and corporate-governed — present challenges that should be addressed during the final development and initial implementation of the framework.