Brazil's actual government faces many challenges in implementing sustainable agendas.

Building synergy among sectors relies on trans-ministerial dialog.

The attempted coup in Brazil evidences a critical governance-conservation imbalance.

Persistent threats to the environmental agenda demand that we stay vigilant.

National instruments aimed at biodiversity conservation need to be secured.

The Neotropical cascabel has been expanding its range since the 1950’.

A number of hypothesis to explain the expansion have been raised, but none tested.

We show that land use change is the main driver of this expansion.

Climate change also has a (smaller) role on the phenomenon.

Telemetry technology has revolutionized ecological research.

Comparable impacts to conservation science, however, are presently unclear.

Conservation is an applied discipline where impacts drive new policies and practices.

Frameworks to functionally connect collaring and conservation are presented.

The ways in which these frameworks can yield conservation gains are discussed.

Frog density below a certain threshold cannot regulate rice pest population irrespective of agricultural intensity.

Due to strong intraguild predation between amphibians and arthropod pest predators, pest regulation is suppressed.

At advanced crop growth stage increased foliage provides refuge to pests causing a switch in prey preference of the frogs towards more agile arthropod pest predators.

Improving habitat heterogeneity will increase the frog density in the landscape and improve pest regulation.

We evaluated jaguar habitat use accounting for individual non-independence.

We did not find habitat-use differences between jaguar sexes in Amazonian varzea.

Anthropogenic influence apparently had little effect on overall jaguar habitat use.

Our results differ from previous studies that did not account for individual differences.

Local human settlements within the Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve appear to have low impact on jaguars.

Wild vertebrate roadkills increased by about 144% after fires along the highway.

Roadkills in sections affected by fires were higher than on neighboring sections.

An experimental design with temporal and spatial controls should be adopted.

Fires must be considered when formulating measures to mitigate wild vertebrate roadkilling.

Estimated ant species richness is higher in the tropical region.

Estimated ant species richness was best explained by annual rainfall and mean temperature.

The direction and effect of abiotic determinants are relative to the zoogeographic realm analyzed, highlighting regional effects.

Monitoring programs must produce reliable estimates of density for conservation.

For many species, tracks occur more frequently than visual encounters on transects.

This study tests a method to estimate mammal density based on track detections.

Indigenous hunters with expert knowledge and skills collected the data.

Sample design for scent traps must be as effective as possible without depleting bees.

Orchid bee species composition was related to soil phosphorus content.

Optimizing sampling effort is crucial for biodiversity preservation.