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Where should new protected areas go?

Venter O, Fuller RA, Segan DB, et al. · PLoS biology · 2014

Open access · cc by · source: Europe PMC

Most threatened vertebrates are inadequately protected; expanding reserves by cost or ecoregions alone poorly covers imperiled species.

Key findings

17% of threatened vertebrates are in zero protected areas and 85% lack adequate coverage; cheap-land/ecoregion strategies are inefficient versus species-targeted expansion.

Methodology

Mapped global protected-area coverage against threatened vertebrate adequacy targets and compared expansion strategies toward Aichi goals.

Limitations

Does not itself create reserves or resolve all socio-political constraints of implementation.

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