Wild animals enhance climate solutions across social-ecological systems

Abstract

Lamba et al. demonstrated the feasibility of explicitly incorporating wild animal conservation into nature-based climate solutions, the multifaceted value of which was recently promoted by Schmitz et al. I synthesize their ideas to highlight some issues critical for large-scale integration of these coupled priorities across social-ecological systems.

Keywords: animal conservation; climate change; coupled natural–human systems; dynamic landscapes; human–wildlife interactions; nature-based solutions.