Are We Capturing Faunal Intactness? A Comparison of Intact Forest Landscapes and the “Last of the Wild in Each Ecoregion”

Plumptre, Andrew J.; Baisero, Daniele; Jędrzejewski, Włodzimierz; Kühl, Hjalmar S.; Maisels, Fiona; Ray, Justina C.; Sanderson, Eric W.; Strindberg, Samantha; Voigt, Maria; Wich, Serge A.

doi:10.3389/ffgc.2019.00024

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“…Preliminary scoping of areas that retain their full complement of native species may be informed by regional maps showing areas where species have been extirpated (see Plumptre et al 2019 for an example at the global scale). Note that species richness is not a surrogate for ecological integrity.…”

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Guidelines for using A global standard for the identification of Key Biodiversity Areas: version 1.1

2020

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Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) are sites that contribute significantly to the global persistence of biodiversity. The purpose of the Guidelines for using A Global Standard for the Identification of Key Biodiversity Areas is to ensure that KBA identification is based on consistent, scientifically rigorous yet practical methods. These KBA Guidelines provide an overview of the steps for identifying and delineating KBAs, together with explanation of how the KBA criteria, thresholds and delineation procedures should be applied in practice. The KBA Guidelines should be used hand-in-hand with the KBA Standard (IUCN, 2016).

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Guidelines for using A global standard for the identification of Key Biodiversity Areas: version 1.1

2020

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“…The broad geographic diversity of deforestation threats and the ubiquity of IF loss worldwide (Appendices 2, 3) indicate that IF conservation efforts should focus on high-value regions. The strategy of regional prioritization of IF conservation efforts is reinforced by the finding that many "IF landscapes" (Potapov et al, 2008) lack the full complement of their native fauna (Plumptre et al, 2019). In other words, fully intact forests are increasingly rare and should be targeted for conservation efforts based on priority IF landscapes.…”

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Conserving the Last Great Forests: A Meta-Analysis Review of the Drivers of Intact Forest Loss and the Strategies and Policies to Save Them

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Drahota³

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The conservation of Earth's remaining intact forests (IFs) is a global priority, but improved understanding of the causes and solutions to IF loss is urgently needed to improve conservation efforts. This meta-analysis examines 207 case studies of IF loss occurring since 1970 to synthesize the drivers of IF loss and the proposed case-specific interventions. The goal of this study is to build a portfolio of conservation best practices for retaining IFs. The most frequently reported direct drivers of IF loss were logging, agriculture, ranching, and infrastructure expansion. Mining and fire were also prominent threats to IFs in selected areas. Indirect drivers of IF loss varied between continents, with high demographic pressures driving forest loss in Latin America, Asia, and Africa, contrasting with North America and Europe-Russia. Indirect economic and socio-political drivers were most frequently reported at the national scale for all continents studied, indicating a central role for national institutions in IF loss and conservation. Decisive sociopolitical factors underlying IF loss worldwide include political failures, institutional failures, and pro-development policies. A wide range of interventions were recommended in the case studies to conserve IFs. The proposed actions were most frequently within the forest, finance, and education and science sectors, and also emphasized inter-sectoral activities. Based on the results of this study, three core approaches to IF conservation that can be combined at the landscape scale are identified: protected areas, payments for ecosystem services, and agricultural reforms. Related enabling conditions include cooperative landscape management, effective enforcement, and political advocacy. The success of IF conservation efforts ultimately depends on sustained political support and the prioritization of high-value forest landscapes. Such efforts should mitigate socioeconomic pressures through policy mixes that are cross-sectoral and place-based. Key policy priorities for IF conservation include addressing the systemic failures of public institutions, increasing political support for IF conservation, and countering harmful development activities.

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“…The assumption of sustainability as the main guiding principle in the choices of government of urban transformations requires the preparation of new tools, interventions and solutions to deal with the new challenges each city is required to tackle (Maciocco and Serreli 2009;Roggema 2016;Frantzeskaki et al 2017;Gargiulo et al 2018). These include traffic congestion and pollution, GHG emissions, intense urban sprawl, energy efficiency (Vojnovic 2014;Gargiulo and Lombardi 2016;Gargiulo and Russo 2017;Papa et al 2017). All these issues are linked to the urbanization process that is expected to increase in the coming decades (UNDP 2010) and will inevitably lead to soil degradation, unless current land use and management practices change (Assadourian and Prugh 2013;Cook and Swyngedouw 2014;Gibbs and Salmon 2015).…”

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“…It is estimated that the human footprint has affected 83% of Earth's land surface (Plumptre et al 2019) and has degraded about 60% of the ecosystems services in the past 50 years alone (MEA 2005(MEA , 2018.…”

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“…Given that urban quality and environmental protection play a fundamental role in the development of urban policies, it would then be appropriate to adopt a new approach to urban transformations aimed at optimizing land management, in order to reduce the waste of resources, respect and increase natural vocations of places and restore their value (Zucaro and Morosini 2018): "transformative actions towards sustainability require, as a key condition, the preservation of all available resources that constitute the natural and man-made capital and contribute to the overall well-being of each generation" (Papa 2009).…”

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Land use and urban sustainability assessment: a 3D-GIS application to a case study in Gozo

Morosini

Zucaro

2019

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Balancing urban growth and natural resource availability has been recognized as the main challenge of the 21st century from the strategic documents adopted by the recent World Summits. Agenda 21 advocates sustainable land use, as soil is a crucial natural resource to reduce urban vulnerability due e.g. to climate change, energy saving, and natural disasters. In this perspective, this paper aims at supporting local decision makers in identifying the portions and the buildings of an urban area most susceptible to transformation, in order to promote a sustainable land use according to physical and functional characteristics. The proposed methodology combines the 3D modeling of urban settlements and the adoption of the performance-based approach by the urban transformation government, in order to guarantee the satisfaction of the supply-demand ratio through a compatible balance between urban growth dynamics and the overall urban efficiency. The test area was Gozo island, where a significant urban transformation will occur as a consequence of the new Malta-Gozo tunnel construction.

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Are We Capturing Faunal Intactness? A Comparison of Intact Forest Landscapes and the “Last of the Wild in Each Ecoregion”

Cited by 19 publications

References 41 publications

Guidelines for using A global standard for the identification of Key Biodiversity Areas: version 1.1

Guidelines for using A global standard for the identification of Key Biodiversity Areas: version 1.1

Conserving the Last Great Forests: A Meta-Analysis Review of the Drivers of Intact Forest Loss and the Strategies and Policies to Save Them

Land use and urban sustainability assessment: a 3D-GIS application to a case study in Gozo

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