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@article{Hill2018NewPD,
title={New policy directions for global pond conservation},
author={Matthew J. Hill and Christopher Hassall and Beat Oertli and Lenore Fahrig and Belinda J. Robson and Jeremy Biggs and Michael John Samways and Nisikawa Usio and Noriko Takamura and Jagdish Anakkavoor Krishnaswamy and Paul J. Wood},
journal={Conservation Letters},
year={2018},
volume={11},
url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:55293639}
}Despite the existence of well‐established international environmental and nature conservation policies (e.g., the Ramsar Convention and Convention on Biological Diversity) ponds are largely missing from national and international legislation and policy frameworks. Ponds are among the most biodiverse and ecologically important freshwater habitats, and their value lies not only in individual ponds, but more importantly, in networks of ponds (pondscapes). Ponds make an important contribution to…