Designing an ecologically representative global network of protected areas requires coordination between countries
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15548432 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christos Mammides (0000-0003-1747-175X, Guangxi University, corresponding author), Eben Goodale (0000-0003-3403-2847, Guangxi University, corresponding author), Moses Elleason (0000-0003-4470-3747, Guangxi University), Richard T Corlett (0000-0002-2508-9465, Chinese Academy of Sciences) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 12 |
| Pages | 121001-121001 |
| Publication date | 2021-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environmental Research Letters (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1748-9326 • E-ISSN: 1748-9326 |
| Publisher | IOP Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1088/1748-9326/ac3534 |
| OpenAlex | W3209013199 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 17 |
People are now impacting the natural environment at an unparalleled scale. The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) warns that up to one million species may be threatened with extinction. Protected areas (PAs) represent a key conservation strategy for addressing human environmental impacts. In 2010 the Parties to the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD) agreed to Aichi Target 11. Although the quantitative terrestrial coverage of 17% was achieved at a global scale, there has been less progress regarding the other key aspects of the target. Many of the world's PAs remain ineffective, inequitably managed, poorly connected, and are not ecologically representative. Here, we focus on the representativeness aspect to demonstrate that transboundary coordination between countries is essential to achieve this objective. Yet, decisions regarding PAs and their placement are made unilaterally at the national level, resulting in large differences among ecosystems and species in the degree of protection at the regional and global levels. Recognizing and addressing this issue is critical for the implementation of the post-2020 global biodiversity targets—which are to be adopted during the second phase of the CDB's 15th Conference of the Parties (COP 15) in Kunming, China in May 2022. According to the first detailed draft of the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), the new quantitative coverage target for PAs and other effective area-based conservation measures (OECMs) will likely be set at 30% of the planet to be achieved by 2030. For this to happen, countries will have to expand their protected land significantly; for many, it would mean more than doubling their current network of PAs and OECMs. However, should these expansions continue to occur without transboundary coordination, countries risk creating a global network of PAs that is still not ecologically representative despite its greatly expanded coverage
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| Citations per year | 0.75 |
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| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |