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Priorities for progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 15 ‘Life on land’

Nature Ecology & Evolution volume 7, pages 1570–1575 (2023)Cite this article

This year marks the mid-point for the implementation of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals, including Sustainable Development Goal 15 ‘Life on land’. We asked a range of researchers, working across biodiversity science, conservation, policy and implementation, to reflect on priorities for action on conserving terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems over the next seven years.

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  1. Secretariat, Convention on Biological Diversity, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

    H. David Cooper

  2. Convention on Wetlands, Gland, Switzerland

    Musonda Mumba

  3. CSIR-National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), Nagpur, India

    Shalini Dhyani

  4. IUCN Commission on Ecosystems Management (CEM), Gland, Switzerland

    Shalini Dhyani

  5. Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Xiaoli Shen & Keping Ma

  6. Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

    Rachel Wynberg

  7. People and Plants International, Bristol, VT, USA

    Sarah Laird

  8. IUCN Species Survival Commission, Caracas, Venezuela

    Jon Paul Rodríguez

  9. Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC), Caracas, Venezuela

    Jon Paul Rodríguez

  10. Provita, Caracas, Venezuela

    Jon Paul Rodríguez

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Correspondence to H. David Cooper, Musonda Mumba, Shalini Dhyani, Xiaoli Shen, Keping Ma, Rachel Wynberg, Sarah Laird or Jon Paul Rodríguez.

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Cooper, H.D., Mumba, M., Dhyani, S. et al. Priorities for progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 15 ‘Life on land’. Nat Ecol Evol 7, 1570–1575 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02209-3

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