Protected areas: rare opportunities identified on a global scale

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On  October 22, 2024
Cap Corse Marine Park. ©David Mouillot
Cap Corse Marine Park. ©David Mouillot
As the world scrambles to protect 30% of land and oceans by 2030 as part of the commitments to the Global Biodiversity Framework, adopted at COP15 last December, a study published in Nature Communications on October 18, 2024, unveils a new global roadmap to realize the world's protection potential.
An international consortium, comprising 20 researchers from 5 countries, including researchers from the Laboratoire d'écologie alpine (LECA - CNRS/UGA/USMB) demonstrates in this study how both the presence -but also the absence- of protected areas are related to specific socio-economic and environmental conditions globally. Combining with this key insight with knowledge of vertebrate species distribution, they then identify high-priority conservation areas that are potentially well suited for protection, in contrast to those where conditions make protection more challenging. Critically, the latter were far more common, especially in the ocean.

Read the article on the website of the Fondation pour la recherche sur la biodiversité
Published on  October 22, 2024
Updated on  October 22, 2024