Targeting Global Protected Area Expansion for Imperiled Biodiversity

Venter, Oscar; Fuller, Richard A.; Segan, Daniel B.; Carwardine, Josie; Brooks, Thomas M.; Butchart, Stuart H. M.; Marco, Moreno Di; Iwamura‏, Takuya; Joseph, Liana N.; O’Grady, Damien; Possingham, Hugh P.; Rondinini, Carlo; Smith, Robert J.; Venter, Michelle; Watson, James

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“…Their flat peaks are rich in restricted range endemic species (McPherson, 2008), and connect with the Canaima and Mount Roraima National Parks in Venezuela and Brazil. These highlands are shown to be critical to achieving conservation targets in Guyana, because they exhibit high selection frequency, and in addition, they are shown to be important in global spatial conservation prioritisations (Pollock et al, 2017;Venter et al, 2014). So alongside affirming the biodiversity value of these areas, our study provides maps at a suitable scale for use by policy makers to delineate protected area boundaries.…”

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“…Butchart et al, 2015;Larsen et al, 2011;Pollock et al, 2017;Venter et al, 2014), and these provide broad insights into the optimal locations for future protection at the international scale. However, as Aichi Target 11 is implemented at the national-level (CBD, 2010), and as this is the scale most relevant for land-use policy development and delivery, national-scale spatial conservation prioritisations are needed.…”

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Designing protected area networks that translate international conservation commitments into national action

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Most countries have committed to protect 17% of their terrestrial area by 2020 through Aichi Target 11 of the Convention on Biological Diversity, with a focus on protecting areas of particular importance for biodiversity. This means national-scale spatial conservation prioritisations are needed to help meet this target and guide broader conservation and land-use policy development. However, to ensure these assessments are adopted by policy makers, they must also consider national priorities. This situation is exemplified by Guyana, a corner of Amazonia that couples high biodiversity with low economic development. In recent years activities that threaten biodiversity conservation have increased, and consequently, protected areas are evermore critical to achieving the Aichi targets. Here we undertake a cost-effective approach to protected area planning in Guyana that accounts for in-country conditions. To do this we conducted a stakeholder-led spatial conservation prioritisation based on meeting targets for 17 vegetation types and 329 vertebrate species, while minimising opportunity costs for forestry, mining, agriculture and urbanisation. Our analysis identifies 3 million ha of priority areas for conservation, helping inform government plans to double the current protected area network from 8.5 to 17%. As part of this, we also develop a new technique to prioritise engagement with local communities whose lands are identified as important to conservation. Our study both provides a scientifically robust, politically acceptable protected area expansion strategy for Guyana, and illustrates the importance of conservation planning at the country-scale to translate international commitments into national action.

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Designing protected area networks that translate international conservation commitments into national action

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“…Among the more intuitive options is to concentrate efforts in places where multiple conservation benefits can be achieved simultaneously whenever such multi-objective hotspots are ecologically appropriate and socio-economically equitable (Beger et al, 2015;Kark et al, 2009;Venter et al, 2014). Since the World Heritage Convention was adopted in 1972, the World Heritage List has continually evolved and is growing steadily.…”

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At the intersection of cultural and natural heritage: Distribution and conservation of the type localities of Italian endemic vascular plants

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Biological Conservation

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A B S T R A C TWe conducted a GIS spatial analysis with the aim of providing the first quantitative large-scale overview of the distribution patterns of 1536 type localities (loci classici) of 1216 Italian endemic vascular plants and their relationship with a set of descriptive variables. Whereas some variables were used to model the presence-absence distribution patterns of the type localities for the whole set of endemics as well as for the subset of narrow endemics, others (e.g., presence inside or outside protected areas and Italian Important Plant Areas) were considered with the purpose of assessing potential assets or risks for conservation.The largest number of type localities was found within the Mediterranean biogeographic region (1134),http://dx

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“…These two analyses represent different interpretations of the CBD target 11 [1,3,6]. Except for the country-specific area coverage targets, both sets of targets are 'globalized' in the sense that they were achieved without considering national borders.…”

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Socio-economic and ecological impacts of global protected area expansion plans

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Targeting Global Protected Area Expansion for Imperiled Biodiversity

Abstract: Meeting international targets for expanding protected areas could simultaneously contribute to species conservation, but only if the distribution of threatened species informs the future establishment of protected areas.

Cited by 484 publications

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Designing protected area networks that translate international conservation commitments into national action

Designing protected area networks that translate international conservation commitments into national action

At the intersection of cultural and natural heritage: Distribution and conservation of the type localities of Italian endemic vascular plants

Socio-economic and ecological impacts of global protected area expansion plans

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