Contributions of the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems to risk-based design and management of protected and conserved areas in Africa.

Autor: Keith DA; Centre for Ecosystem Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.; IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management, Gland, Switzerland., Ghoraba SMM; IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management, Gland, Switzerland., Kaly E; Laboratory of Plant Ecology and Eco-hydrology, Department of Plant Biology, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal., Jones KR; Global Conservation Program, Wildlife Conservation Society, Bronx, New York, USA., Oosthuizen A; South African National Parks, Cape Town, South Africa.; The Nature Conservancy, Cape Town, South Africa., Obura D; CORDIO, Coastal Oceans Research and Development - Indian Ocean, Mombasa, Kenya., Costa HM; Global Conservation Program, Wildlife Conservation Society, Bronx, New York, USA., Daniels F; South African National Parks, Cape Town, South Africa., Duarte E; Global Conservation Program, Wildlife Conservation Society, Bronx, New York, USA., Grantham H; Centre for Ecosystem Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.; Global Conservation Program, Wildlife Conservation Society, Bronx, New York, USA., Gudka M; CORDIO, Coastal Oceans Research and Development - Indian Ocean, Mombasa, Kenya.; Centre for Integrative Ecology, Deakin University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia., Norman J; Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial Collage London, London, UK., Shannon LJ; Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa., Skowno A; Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.; South African National Biodiversity Institute, Cape Town, South Africa., Ferrer-Paris JR; Centre for Ecosystem Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.; IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management, Gland, Switzerland.; UNSW Data Science Hub, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology [Conserv Biol] 2024 Jun; Vol. 38 (3), pp. e14169. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Mar 15.
DOI: 10.1111/cobi.14169
Abstrakt: Protected and conserved areas (PCAs) are key ecosystem management tools for conserving biodiversity and sustaining ecosystem services and social cobenefits. As countries adopt a 30% target for protection of land and sea under the Global Biodiversity Framework of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, a critical question emerging is, which 30%? A risk-based answer to this question is that the 30% that returns the greatest reductions in risks of species extinction and ecosystem collapse should be protected. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List protocols provide practical methods for assessing these risks. All species, including humans, depend on the integrity of ecosystems for their well-being and survival. Africa is strategically important for ecosystem management due to convergence of high ecosystem diversity, intense pressures, and high levels of human dependency on nature. We reviewed the outcomes (e.g., applications of ecosystem red-list assessments to protected-area design, conservation planning, and management) of a symposium at the inaugural African Protected Areas Congress convened to discuss roles of the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems in the design and management of PCAs. Recent progress was made in ecosystem assessment, with 920 ecosystem types assessed against the IUCN Red List criteria across 21 countries. Although these ecosystems spanned a diversity of environments across the continent, the greatest thematic gaps were for freshwater, marine, and subterranean realms, and large geographic gaps existed in North Africa and parts of West and East Africa. Assessment projects were implemented by a diverse community of government agencies, nongovernmental organizations, and researchers. The assessments have influenced policy and management by informing extensions to and management of formal protected area networks supporting decision-making for sustainable development, and informing ecosystem conservation and threat abatement within boundaries of PCAs and in surrounding landscapes and seascapes. We recommend further integration of risk assessments in environmental policy and enhanced investment in ecosystem red-list assessment to fill current gaps.
(© 2023 The Authors. Conservation Biology published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Society for Conservation Biology.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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