Global tracking of marine megafauna space use reveals how to achieve conservation targets

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doi:10.1126/science.adl0239

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Global tracking of marine megafauna space use reveals how to achieve conservation targets

Published in Science • Jun 5, 2025

Authors:

Ana M. M. Sequeira

Jorge Rodríguez

Sarah A. Marley

Abstract

The recent Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) sets ambitious goals but no clear pathway for how zero loss of important biodiversity areas and halting human-induced extinction of threatened species will be achieved. We assembled a multi-taxa tracking dataset (11 million geopositions...

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Megafauna

Threatened species

Biodiversity

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