Landscape level conservation could promote a special category of protected areas

AbstractMany global environmental agendas, including halting biodiversity loss, reversing land degradation, and limiting climate change, depend upon retaining forests with high ecological integrity, yet the scale and degree of forest modification remains poorly quantified and mapped. By integrating data on observed and inferred human pressures and an index of lost connectivity, we generate the first globally-consistent, continuous index of forest condition as determined by degree of anthropogenic modification. Globally, only 17.4 million km2 of forest (40.5%) have high landscape level integrity (mostly found in Canada, Russia, the Amazon, Central Africa and New Guinea) and only 27% of this area is found in nationally-designated protected areas. Of the forest in protected areas, only 56% has high landscape level integrity. Ambitious policies that prioritize the retention of forest integrity, especially in the most intact areas, are now urgently needed alongside current efforts aimed at halting deforestation and restoring the integrity of forests globally.

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Anthropogenic modification of forests means only 40% of remaining forests have high ecosystem integrity

Nature Communications ◽

10.1038/s41467-020-19493-3 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

Author(s):

H. S. Grantham ◽

A. Duncan ◽

T. D. Evans ◽

K. R. Jones ◽

H. L. Beyer ◽

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Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Protected Areas ◽

Ecological Integrity ◽

Central Africa ◽

Biodiversity Loss ◽

Ecosystem Integrity ◽

Forest Condition ◽

Global Environmental ◽

Continuous Index ◽

Landscape Level

AbstractMany global environmental agendas, including halting biodiversity loss, reversing land degradation, and limiting climate change, depend upon retaining forests with high ecological integrity, yet the scale and degree of forest modification remain poorly quantified and mapped. By integrating data on observed and inferred human pressures and an index of lost connectivity, we generate a globally consistent, continuous index of forest condition as determined by the degree of anthropogenic modification. Globally, only 17.4 million km2 of forest (40.5%) has high landscape-level integrity (mostly found in Canada, Russia, the Amazon, Central Africa, and New Guinea) and only 27% of this area is found in nationally designated protected areas. Of the forest inside protected areas, only 56% has high landscape-level integrity. Ambitious policies that prioritize the retention of forest integrity, especially in the most intact areas, are now urgently needed alongside current efforts aimed at halting deforestation and restoring the integrity of forests globally.

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Land-Use Threats and Protected Areas: A Scenario-Based, Landscape Level Approach

Land ◽

10.3390/land3020362 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 362-389 ◽

Cited By ~ 21

Author(s):

Tamara Wilson ◽

Benjamin Sleeter ◽

Rachel Sleeter ◽

Christopher Soulard

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Protected Areas ◽

Landscape Level

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SPECIALLY PROTECTED NATURAL AND TECHNOGENIC TERRITORIES OF THE KIROV REGION

Bulletin of Udmurt University. Series Biology. Earth Sciences ◽

10.35634/2412-9518-2019-29-3-362-373 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 29 (3) ◽

pp. 362-373

Author(s):

I.A. Vartan ◽

A.M. Prokashev ◽

A.A. Skvortsov ◽

L.I. Skvortsova

Keyword(s):

Spatial Structure ◽

Protected Areas ◽

Component Composition ◽

Point Of View ◽

Natural Area ◽

Structure Component ◽

The Status ◽

Protected Natural Area ◽

Geochemical Studies ◽

Special Category

The article presents comprehensive data on one of the nature monuments of the Kirov region under the name “Zhukovlyansky sandstone spherical concretions”. The status of a specially protected natural area of local importance was granted to it in 2017 due to the presence of clusters of spherical geological bodies of human size, which give the area a very scenic view. They were discovered during the quarrying of gravel and sand materials in the early 80-s of the last century and soon became a reason to put forward various hypotheses regarding the time and methods of their formation. The latter was the motivation for this publication, which is based on field and laboratory geological and soil-geochemical studies carried out by the authors in 2014-18. The results below give an idea of the peculiarities of the spatial structure, component composition and properties of local geosystems, the time of formation of their lithogenic basis, scientific and cognitive, tourist-recreational importance and problems of preservation of the original natural heritage of the region under consideration. From the genetic point of view, the spherical sandstone concretions located within the paleolacial province of the Vyatka Territory are treated by the authors as native Permian formations, not affected or slightly affected by fluvioglacial processes at the Pleistocene stage of geological development. They serve as a basis for the designation of a special category of protected areas on Vyatka land - natural and man-made monuments - as an example of spontaneous creation of nature and man.

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Biodiversity and Human Livelihoods in Protected Areas

10.1017/cbo9780511542169 ◽

2007 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Keyword(s):

Protected Areas

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Crossing Divides: Conducting Mixed Methods Research in Protected Areas

The Indian Journal of Social Work ◽

10.32444/ijsw.2018.79.3.291-308 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 79 (3) ◽

pp. 291

Author(s):

BIJAYASHREE SATPATHY

Keyword(s):

Mixed Methods ◽

Protected Areas ◽

Mixed Methods Research

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ESTIMATION OF ABOVE GROUND BIOMASS OF THE THREE SITES (GRAZED SITE, PROTECTED SITE AND SEED SOWN SITE) FOR COMPARING THEIR PRODUCTIVITY IN KASHMIR VALLEY

FLORA AND FAUNA ◽

10.33451/florafauna.v23i2pp259-262 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 23 (2) ◽

Author(s):

AFSHAN ANJUM BABA ◽

SYED NASEEM UL-ZAFAR GEELANI ◽

ISHRAT SALEEM ◽

MOHIT HUSAIN ◽

PERVEZ AHMAD KHAN ◽

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Keyword(s):

Protected Areas ◽

Aboveground Biomass ◽

Plant Biomass ◽

Summer Season ◽

Above Ground Biomass ◽

Spring Season ◽

Kashmir Valley ◽

Ground Biomass ◽

Maximum Value ◽

Protected Site

The plant biomass for protected areas was maximum in summer (1221.56 g/m2) and minimum in winter (290.62 g/m2) as against grazed areas having maximum value 590.81 g/m2 in autumn and minimum 183.75 g/m2 in winter. Study revealed that at Protected site (Kanidajan) the above ground biomass ranged was from a minimum (1.11 t ha-1) in the spring season to a maximum (4.58 t ha-1) in the summer season while at Grazed site (Yousmarag), the aboveground biomass varied from a minimum (0.54 t ha-1) in the spring season to a maximum of 1.48 t ha-1 in summer seasonandat Seed sown site (Badipora), the lowest value of aboveground biomass obtained was 4.46 t ha-1 in spring while as the highest (7.98 t ha-1) was obtained in summer.

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