scholarly journals Shaping a global strategy for building capacity and performance of rangers in and around protected areas

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dedee P. Woodside ◽  
Jenny Vasseleu
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Global Strategy ◽  
Building Capacity ◽  
And Performance

scholarly journals An Introduction to the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation

2003 ◽  
pp. 25-28
Author(s):  
David Rae
Keyword(s):  
Plant Diversity ◽  
Plant Conservation ◽  
Global Strategy ◽  
Building Capacity ◽  
Education And Awareness

The background to, and development of, the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation is described and the agreed global targets for 2010 are listed. The 16 targets are arranged in five groups as follows: understanding and documenting plant diversity, conserving plant diversity, using plant diversity sustainability, promoting education and awareness about plant diversity and building capacity for the conservation of plant diversity

scholarly journals The (Small) State of the Union: Assessing the EU's Ability to Implement Its Global Strategy

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Revecca Pedi
Keyword(s):  
International System ◽  
Critical Time ◽  
External Action ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Global Strategy ◽  
Small Power ◽  
State Of The Union ◽  
New Strategy ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Eu

The European Global Strategy (EUGS) is a significant document that came out at a critical time. Decision makers and scholars need to identify and assess the challenges the EU is facing in its effort to pursue its new Strategy. This paper addresses the lack of a tool for identifying those challenges and assessing the EU's ability to respond to them by introducing a new analytical framework based on the conceptualization of the EU as a small power in the international system, and the literature about the international relations of small states. The framework combines the factors that impact upon a small state's behaviour and performance in the international system and consists of the following elements: a) the EU's relations with the great powers in the system, b) developments in the EU's neighbourhood, c) the EU's politics, and d) the EU's reputation. After discussing each one of them, the paper contributes a comprehensive assessment of the EU's ability to implement its Strategy. It concludes that in order to implement its Strategy, the EU should respond to specific challenges. Therefore, the framework this paper introduces can improve our understanding of both the EUGS and the Union's strengths and weaknesses, shed some light on what measures should be taken for the Union to respond to challenges that lie ahead and be used as a yardstick to assess the Union's progress. Moreover, the framework can be applied to other areas of the EU's external action and contribute to both drafting better informed strategic documents and supporting their implementation.

scholarly journals Quantifying the impact of protected areas on near-global waterbird population trends, a pre-analysis plan

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah S Wauchope ◽  
Julia P G Jones ◽  
Tatsuya Amano ◽  
Jonas Geldmann ◽  
Daniel Blanco ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Association Studies ◽  
Population Decline ◽  
Population Trends ◽  
Complex Data ◽  
Waterbird Species ◽  
Before And After ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Impact

There is increasing interest in the effectiveness of protected areas (PAs) for supporting populations of wildlife. While there are a number of association studies showing a relationship between protected areas and abundance or trends in wild species, studies with an appropriate counterfactual (what would have happened in the absence of protection) are rare. We use the world’s largest database on waterbird counts (covering 587 species at 21,989 sites globally) to answer three questions: 1) Do PAs have a positive impact on waterbird population trends relative to a counterfactual (this includes cases where a PA has lessened, but not halted, a population decline)?; 2) are PAs performing successfully by maintaining or increasing populations? and 3) what factors contribute to PA impact and performance? We selected 15,703 waterbird populations (here defined as a site species combination), consisting of 311 species at 870 protected sites, where PA designation occurred at least 5 years after the first survey date, and 5 years before the last. We will use this to compare trends before PA designation to those afterwards. We then matched these sites to unprotected sites with similar covariates in the years before PA designation, resulting in a matching dataset of 6,451 populations pairs consisting of 39 species at 769 pairs of protected and unprotected sites. We will use this to compare trends both before and after PA designation and inside and outside of PAs. Our results will shed light on the impact of PA on hundreds of waterbird species, providing much needed evidence regarding PA effectiveness. As PA performance is a sensitive subject and it is important to develop hypotheses before knowing the results (especially for the relatively complex data analysis used in matching protected and unprotected sites), we present a pre-analysis plan. This will ensure that the final paper’s analyses are hypotheses testing, rather than generating, and avoids the risk of, or perception of, data dredging.

scholarly journals Forest Protected Area Systems and Biodiversity Conservation in Bangladesh

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharif Ahmed Mukul ◽  
A. Z. M. Manzoor Rashid ◽  
Niaz Ahmed Khan
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
Forest Products ◽  
Policy Support ◽  
Alternative Livelihood ◽  
Management Interventions ◽  
Non Timber Forest Products ◽  
Forest Coverage ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Small Forest

Despite of being an exceptionally biodiversity rich country, the forest coverage of Bangladesh is declining at an alarming rate. Declaration and management of protected areas in this regard is one of the efforts from government side to tackle the loss of biodiversity. The limited numbers of forest-protected areas (FPA), established to conserve the dwindling forest biodiversity of the country with high pressure on them for timber, non-timber forest products, and fuelwood - makes their management challenging. Moreover, most of the FPAs of the country declared only in the recent decades with very limited infrastructure, manpower and policy support for monitoring and governance. Some people-centred approaches for the management of FPAs and alternative livelihood and income generation subsidies although made available through a few project interventions, their number are still inadequate and performance remains less than satisfactory. This chapter provides a critical review of the FPAs of Bangladesh looking at their role in biodiversity conservation, management challenges, and key lessons from previous management interventions with recommendations for the future. It has been revealed that the FPA system of Bangladesh still poorly represents the diverse forest ecosystems with relatively small forest size and lack of corridors for the movement of wildlife. There are ample opportunities to render co-management of FPAs an effective strategy to minimize the conflicts in FPAs management in the country. It is, however, important to ensure the access of local forest-dependent people to different alternative income generating options that may adequately support their livelihoods.

scholarly journals The effectiveness of protected areas and indigenous lands in representing threatened plant species in Brazil

Rodriguésia ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 69 (4) ◽  
pp. 1539-1546 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno R. Ribeiro ◽  
Eline Martins ◽  
Gustavo Martinelli ◽  
Rafael Loyola
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Plant Species ◽  
Conservation Status ◽  
Plant Conservation ◽  
Global Strategy ◽  
Number Of Species ◽  
Threatened Plant ◽  
Indigenous Lands ◽  
Threatened Plant Species ◽  
The Government

Abstract Brazil is signatory of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC), which provides guidelines and directions to existing national policies. This strategy aims to halt the continuing loss of plant diversity through the achievement of 16 outcome-based targets set for 2020. One of these targets (target 7) states that at least 75% of known threatened plant species should be preserved in situ. Here, we assessed the effectiveness of the Brazilian current network of protected areas (PAs) and indigenous lands (ILs) in representing all known threatened plant species. We found that the number of species represented inside PAs and ILs varied according to data type. When using occurrence records, we found that 699 (33%) threatened plant species lie completely outside PAs (and/or ILs) and that 1,405 species (67%) have at least one record inside at least one PA (and/or IL). The number of species unrepresented decreased when we considered polygons of distribution. In this case, only 219 (10%) are supposedly unprotected. Although Brazil is almost reaching GSPC Target 7 in terms of absolute numbers, the government still needs to allocate resources for properly managing and improving the conservation status of its imperiled flora and expand the network of PAs.

scholarly journals Co-Management of Protected Areas: A Governance System Analysis of Vatnajökull National Park, Iceland

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 681
Author(s):  
Jon Geir Petursson ◽  
Dadi Mar Kristofersson
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
National Park ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Power Sharing ◽  
Governance System ◽  
Policy Goals ◽  
Governance Systems ◽  
And Performance

Land allocated to protected areas (PA) is expanding as are expectations about the services these areas deliver. There is a need to advance knowledge on PA governance systems, like co-management, recognising that there is no “one-size-fits-all” solution. We analyse the co-management governance system and performance of Vatnajökull National Park (VNP), Iceland. We adapt an analytical framework from the literature on environmental governance and analyse its governance system, hence actor roles, institutional arrangements and interactions. Our findings illustrate that the co-management structure was an outcome of political negotiations and a response to the lack of legitimacy of its predecessors; resulting in a tailor-made governance system set out in park-specific legislation. Although the performance is quite positive, being adaptive to changes, inclusive, promoting rural development and an appreciated facilitator of devolution and power-sharing, it has come with challenges. It has encountered problems delineating responsibilities among its actors, causing conflict and confusion; in settling conflicting localised issues close to local stakeholders, there have been capacity issues. We argue that the VNP co-management system is fit for its purpose, aligned with Icelandic land-use governance structures but in need of systematic improvements. There are important lessons as Iceland seeks to expand its PA estate and beyond, since the global community is setting ambitious policy goals to expand site-based conservation.

scholarly journals Quantifying the impact of protected areas on near-global waterbird population trends, a pre-analysis plan

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah S Wauchope ◽  
Julia P G Jones ◽  
Tatsuya Amano ◽  
Jonas Geldmann ◽  
Daniel Blanco ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Association Studies ◽  
Population Decline ◽  
Population Trends ◽  
Complex Data ◽  
Waterbird Species ◽  
Before And After ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Impact

There is increasing interest in the effectiveness of protected areas (PAs) for supporting populations of wildlife. While there are a number of association studies showing a relationship between protected areas and abundance or trends in wild species, studies with an appropriate counterfactual (what would have happened in the absence of protection) are rare. We use the world’s largest database on waterbird counts (covering 587 species at 21,989 sites globally) to answer three questions: 1) Do PAs have a positive impact on waterbird population trends relative to a counterfactual (this includes cases where a PA has lessened, but not halted, a population decline)?; 2) are PAs performing successfully by maintaining or increasing populations? and 3) what factors contribute to PA impact and performance? We selected 9,650 waterbird populations (here defined as a site species combination), consisting of 262 species at 546 protected sites, where PA designation occurred at least 5 years after the first survey date, and 5 years before the last. We will use this to compare trends before PA designation to those afterwards. We then matched these sites to unprotected sites with similar covariates in the years before PA designation, resulting in a matching dataset of 3,677 populations consisting of 94 species at 514 pairs of protected and unprotected sites. We will use this to compare trends both before and after PA designation and inside and outside of PAs. Our results will shed light on the impact of PA on hundreds of waterbird species, providing much needed evidence regarding PA effectiveness. As PA performance is a sensitive subject and it is important to develop hypotheses before knowing the results (especially for the relatively complex data analysis used in matching protected and unprotected sites), we present a pre-analysis plan. This will ensure that the final paper’s analyses are hypotheses testing, rather than generating, and avoids the risk of, or perception of, data dredging.

Integrating habitat suitability modelling and assessment of the conservation gaps of nature reserves for the threatened Reeves’s Pheasant

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
SHAN TIAN ◽  
SHUAI LU ◽  
JUNQIN HUA ◽  
JIANG CHANG ◽  
JIANQIANG LI ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Gap Analysis ◽  
Central China ◽  
Suitable Habitat ◽  
Important Species ◽  
Reserve Network ◽  
Habitat Suitability Modelling ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Multiple Species

Summary As threats to biodiversity proliferate, establishment and expansion of protected areas have increasingly been advocated in recent decades. In establishing a network of protected areas, recurrent assessments of the biodiversity conservation actually afforded by these areas is required. Gap analysis has been useful to evaluate the sufficiency and performance of protected areas. We surveyed Reeves’s Pheasant Syrmaticus reevesii populations in 2018–2019 across its distribution range in central China to quantify the distribution of habitat suitable for this species. Our goal was to ascertain the current distribution of Reeves’s Pheasant and then identify the gaps in protecting Reeves’s Pheasant of the existing national nature reserve (NNR) network to provide suggestions for improving the conservation of this important species. The existing NNR network encompassed only 17.0% of the habitat suitable for Reeves’s Pheasant. Based on the current distributions of both suitable habitat and NNRs for Reeves’s Pheasant, we suggest most currently unprotected areas comprised moderately suitable habitat for species and should be prioritized in the future. A multiple species approach using Reeves’s Pheasant as a flagship species should be considered to understand the extent of mismatch between the distributions of protected areas and suitable habitat to improve the management effectiveness of NNRs. This case study provides an example of how the development of a conservation reserve network may be based on species distribution and habitat assessments and is useful to conservation efforts in other regions and for other species.

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