Fig. 4: Comparing combined stress from drivers of biodiversity loss with conservation actions across 26 regions.

For each region, total stress level (Supplementary Information 1) and the relative contribution of each driver (bar colours on the left) are shown alongside the total number of projects implementing conservation actions and the relative proportion of projects for each conservation action (bar colours on the right). To simplify the links between actions and drivers, some conservation action categories were merged according to the groupings shown in Table 1, resulting in six action categories rather than nine. Five of the six action categories have a primary matching driver group (as shown in the key), but the sixth action category (‘Protect habitat and species’) encompasses all drivers (as in Table 1). Ratios shown on the right indicate the number of drivers and the number of actions per region. For information on how we calculated stress levels, see Supplementary Information 1. For information on how we assigned studies to regions, see Supplementary Information 3.