Many landscapes in the tropics consist of a mosaic of different types of land use. How people make use of these different ecosystems, with their particular plant communities, was unclear until now.

Nine years ago, state lawmakers set up a test. The question was whether giving slack for rules around a pillar of Oregon’s land use system — the urban growth boundary — could provide a new tool for ...

James Fitzsimons is Senior Advisor, Global Protection Strategies with The Nature Conservancy, is a Councillor of the Biodiversity Council and a member of the Australian Land Conservation Alliance's ...