Pastoralism Can Mitigate Biodiversity Loss on Global Rangelands | BioScience | Oxford Academic

David D Briske, P G M Cromsigt, Jonathan Davies, María E Fernández-Giménez, Matthew W Luizza, Pablo Manzano, Rashmi Singh, Pastoralism Can Mitigate Biodiversity Loss on Global Rangelands, BioScience, Volume 76, Issue 1, January 2026, Pages 78–89, https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biaf158 Sustainable pastoralism represents a primary strategy for supporting goals of the Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. Sixty-seven percent of biodiversity hotspots and 38% of key biodiversity areas globally include rangelands, but international conventions seldom recognize this vast biodiversity repository. We summarize four synergies between pastoralism and biodiversity conservation: working lands conservation, continuation of vital disturbance regimes, connectivity through transhumance corridors, and community-led governance. Actions that leverage these synergies offer critical opportunities to mitigate biodiversity loss through the creation of a vast conservation network that includes worki

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