Connected Conservation: Rethinking conservation for a telecoupled world

The convergence of the biodiversity and climate crises, widening wealth inequality, most recently COVID-19 pandemic underscore urgent need to mobilize change secure sustainable futures. Centres tropical are a major focus conservation efforts, delivered in predominantly site-level interventions often incorporating alternative-livelihood provision or poverty-alleviation components. Yet, on intervention is ill-equipped address disproportionate role (often distant) collapse. Further these approaches attempt ‘resolve’ local economic poverty order safeguard seemingly virtuous act, potentially overlooking communities as living locus solutions crisis. We offer Connected Conservation: dual-branched model that commands novel actions tackle distant wealth-related drivers decline, while enhancing empower stewards. synthesize diverse literatures outline for this shift practice. identify three dominant negative flows arising centres disproportionately undermine biodiversity, highlight key positive, though marginalized, enhance exist within biocultural centres. Conservation works amplify positive flows, diminish thereby orientates towards desired states with justice at centre. connected can be applied replicated telecoupled, reality collapse empowering contemporary approach calls extend its collaborations across sectors deliver transformative change.