A biodiversity conservation framework integrating nature education. Note: The framework includes three types of elements: foundational, principal, and external. The elements represent the core components of nature education, while the pathways highlight the essential strategies for effectively promoting biodiversity conservation through nature education.

Brief summary: Urbanization is leading to “Nature-deficit Disorder” that threatens children's health and the sustainable development of humanity. This study implements a new solution—the Mini Botanical Garden, which integrates some of the functions of botanical gardens into community green spaces to popularize nature education in the city. The aim is to provide urban residents, especially children, with easily accessible nature experiences, helping them to establish a long-term connection with nature.

This study examined the impact of a 9-day naturalist training camp at the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden on participants' conservation attitudes and mental well-being. Findings showed significant improvements in biodiversity knowledge, social connectedness, and naturalist identity, which contributed to increased environmental stewardship and enhanced mental health.

This study focuses on frontline teachers from primary and secondary schools. It identified challenges teachers faced regarding internal and external coordination, and highlighted the need for well-structured, engaging courses in on-campus and off-campus collaborative environmental education.

The framework of nature education provides guidance for educators in designing and improving their programs. Principles within this framework, categorized into foundational concepts, engagement strategies, and desired outcomes, offer a shared language for discussing nature education, and emphasize the role of nature education in human well-being and environmental stewardship.

Understanding the spatial ecology and movement of snow leopards is crucial for their long-term conservation. Our first GPS telemetry study in Nepal revealed that snow leopards of Nepal have much larger home ranges than previously thought and frequently cross international borders. This highlights the need for collaborative conservation efforts between Nepal, India, and China. GPS-collared snow leopards in Kangchenjunga Conservation Area (KCA) during the four fiscal years of 2013–2017. A: Ghangjenjwenga (13647), B: Omi Khangri (17103), C: Lapchhemba (21245) and D: Yalung (21755) (Photo credit: DNPWC/WWF Nepal).

Climate change presents significant challenges for Asian elephants, forcing them to either remain in degraded habitats or seek new ones. But, remaining would lead to resource shortages, while moving is hindered by movement barriers. This study integrates species distribution models (MaxEnt) and the minimum cumulative resistance (MCR) model to construct multi-scenario ecological networks, addressing these dual challenges. We identify 162 priority long-distance corridors, with 37.2% overlapping protected areas, yet highlighting a 61.7% protection gap. These findings emphasize the need for optimizing protected areas and integrating long-distance corridors, offering a macro-scale, climate-adaptive strategy to enhance connectivity and promote biodiversity conservation.

Gaoligong Mountain is home to a large number of rare and endangered species, but the effectiveness of conservation measures in the Gaoligong Mountain Nature Reserve remains uncertain. We predicted the potential distribution areas of 361 rare and endangered wild plants in southern Gaoligong Mountain under current and future climate change scenarios and evaluated the effectiveness of existing protected areas. The results showed that the current potential suitable area for rare and endangered wild plants in southern Gaoligong Mountain accounts for 21.74% of the study area, and about 76.86% of the habitats of rare and endangered plants in southern Gaoligong Mountain are still at risk of being unprotected. The existing protected areas only cover 6% of the potential distribution area, revealing insufficient protection. In this regard, we recommend optimizing the layout of protected areas to ensure the continued protection of rare plants, especially paying attention to the integrity of vertical areas.

Chromolaena odorata and Ageratina adenophora are invasive species in Southern Yunnan, China; they have very differing, yet overlapping, climate niches. Both invaders produce a large number of small pappus-bearing achenes every year. They grow in, and their seeds are dispersed to, both suitable and marginal habitats. The thermal interaction between plants and their habitats affects seed development and production of seeds with various viability and high-temperature tolerance, and the seed survival and germination of invaders in the field, contributing to the success or failure of these species’ invasions into new areas, forming their mosaic distribution patterns in South Yunnan, China.

Climate change is widely recognized as a major threat to biodiversity and a critical factor contributing to the decline of species and populations. The study investigates the differential impacts of climate change on endangered continental and island specie.

Our study presents a community engagement process informing post-mining land use in the Philippines through an ecosystem services lens. We conducted a participatory workshop at the Padcal Mine site to assess local perspectives on ecosystem services and mining impacts. 88% of participants understood the ecosystem services concept after an introductory video, while 62% felt mining negatively impact ecosystem services. 65% believed rehabilitated mines could provide future ecosystem services. Gender differences emerged, with women perceiving greater mining impacts but being more positive about rehabilitation. The ecosystem services framework bridges ecological knowledge with community priorities but remains underused in mining contexts.