Co-authored by Imperial's @tom-pienkowski.bsky.social , Matthew Clark, Cecylia Watrobska & @morenamills.bsky.social the @ic-cep.bsky.social, the research warns that the failure to sustain existing conservation efforts could jeopardise international biodiversity & climate goals.

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Oops, plain language summary is here: relationalthinkingblog.com/2024/11/27/p...

8/n Check out our plain language summary here: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10..... Shout out to collaborators, including the Catalyzing Conservation group (Morena Mills, Matt Clark… ), University of São Paulo (Pedro Brancalion…), and the Atlantic Forest Restoration Pact.

7/n We discuss strategies for accelerating engagement. Eg, cross-party agreements to ensure the persistence of environmental legislation across administrations. Targeted incentives – such as better small-scale finance and improved land tenure – to better engage smallholders in the poorest regions.

6/n However, smaller landowners and those in poorer areas risk being marginalised from the Atlantic Forest restoration agenda, highlighting the need for more inclusive and equitable restoration strategies.

5/n These patterns suggest that landowners are influenced by a combination of economic incentives, legal requirements, and support from restoration organizations. Larger landowners, who may have more resources and face greater pressure to comply with environmental laws, are more likely to restore...

4/n Landowners with large properties and high cattle densities are more likely to restore. Properties with water bodies or near urban areas are also more likely to be restored. On the other hand, properties in remote, rugged, less populated, and poorer regions are less likely to be restored.

3/n We combined data from over 220,000 farms and restoration documented by the Atlantic Forest Restoration Pact, drawing on insights from Diffusion of Innovations Theory, in a large spatial analysis.

2/n We wanted to know why some landowners in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil – a globally important biodiversity hotspot – choose to restore forests while others do not. Exploring such drivers can help inform more effective and socially equitable restoration scaling strategies.

Over the next few weeks, I plan to post some of the work I've been involved in over the last year that I've been most excited about!