In Europe, various conservation programs adopted to maintain or restore biodiversity have experienced differing levels of success. However, a synthesis about major factors for success of biodiversity-related conservation programs across ecosystems and national boundaries, such as incentives, subsidies, enforcement, participation, or spatial context, is missing. Using a balanced scorecard survey among experts, we analyzed and c...

One specimen of the largetooth cookiecutter shark Isistius plutodus was caught in the north‐eastern Atlantic at 43°58′ N; 28°32′ W. This is the first record of this rare species in the north‐eastern Atlantic and the northernmost point of its known distribution.