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Biodiversity research remains shaped by extractive models, leaving local capacity underdeveloped. We present a framework for local biodiversity infrastructure, that offers a model for under-resourced regions worldwide. Our framework includes five structural components that enable sustainable institutions. These components strengthen regional capacity and redirect resources toward sustained, nationally grounded systems. This framework provides a transferable approach for strengthening biodiversity science, ensuring research is both impactful and enduring.
Big Tourism has co-opted the IUCN tourism subgroup to promote land grabs for private tourism development in public protected areas, detracting from IUCN’s conservation role. Recent political manoeuvres include a tourism-in-parks policy paper, proposed motions, and sessions at the World Conservation Congress 2025. We call upon IUCN to explicitly reject infiltration of industrial tourism into national parks, and recognise definitively that public protected areas are assets for conservation of biodiversity.
This article is an invitation to reflect on the reality of early-career researchers (ECRs), making science in unequal and precarious conditions. By inviting established researchers to use their stability to amplify younger voices and fight for fair working conditions, I propose a re-collectivization of science worldwide, allowing the experiences and demands of young scientists to be used as guides for the development of action plans and structuring changes in scientific production.
