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Werry Bradley M. Wetherbee Timothy D. White Scott D. Whiting Andrea U. Whiting Annelise Wiebkin Barbara Wienecke Natalie E. Wildermann David N. Wiley Alexis Will Sean Williams Marie Windstein Saskia Wischnewski Matthew J. Witt Freya C. Womersley Andrew G. Wood Lucy J. Wright José C. Xavier Takashi Yamamoto David J. Yurkowski Patricia M. Zarate Alan Zavala-Norzagaray Alexandre N. Zerbini Daniel P. Costa Robert Harcourt Mark G. Meekan Graeme C. Hays David W. Sims Carlos M. Duarte Víctor M. Eguíluz Ana M. M. Sequeira 2025 <p><span>The recent Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) sets ambitious goals but no clear pathway for how zero loss of important biodiversity areas and halting human-induced extinction of threatened species will be achieved. We assembled a multi-taxa tracking dataset (11 million geopositions from 15,845 tracked individuals across 121 species) to provide a global assessment of space use of highly mobile marine megafauna, showing that 63% of the area that they cover is used 80% of the time as important migratory corridors or residence areas. The GBF 30% threshold (Target 3) will be insufficient for marine megafauna’s effective conservation, leaving important areas exposed to major anthropogenic threats. Coupling area protection with mitigation strategies (e.g., fishing regulation, wildlife-traffic separation) will be essential to reach international goals and conserve biodiversity.</span></p> application/pdf 10.1126/science.adl0239 en American Association for the Advancement of Science Global tracking of marine megafauna space use reveals how to achieve conservation targets article