Protected Areas and Effective Biodiversity Conservation Le Saout, Soizic; Hoffmann, Michael; Shi, Yichuan ...
Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science),
11/2013, Letnik:
342, Številka:
6160
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Although protected areas (PAs) cover 13% of Earth's land (1), substantial gaps remain in their coverage of global biodiversity (2). Thus, there has been emphasis on strategic expansion of the global ...PA network (3-5). However, because PAs are often understaffed, underfunded, and beleaguered in the face of external threats (6, 7), efforts to expand PA coverage should be complemented by appropriate management of existing PAs. Previous calls for enhancing PA management have focused on improving operational effectiveness of each PA e.g., staffing and budgets (6). Little guidance has been offered on how to improve collective effectiveness for meeting global biodiversity conservation goals (3). We provide guidance for strategically allocating management efforts among and within existing PAs to strengthen their collective contribution toward preventing global species extinctions.
Geoconservation at local and national levels has achieved much but, although it is gaining recognition at a global level, significant challenges remain. This paper explores what has been achieved for ...global geoconservation setting out the key actions that have been taken since the establishment of the World Heritage Convention in 1972. The World Heritage Site network, and more recently established Global Geopark Network, provide a strong foundation for global geoconservation that is further supported by a number of international statements, resolutions and conventions that directly and indirectly raise the importance of geodiversity and the need for geoconservation. Over the last 40 years there has been a change of emphasis in the approach to protected area management. This has included the establishment of an integrated ecosystem approach, the strengthening of links across heritage interests (natural and cultural) and working more closely with local communities to achieve better conservation outcomes. The role of geodiversity and geoconservation in relation to this more connected approach is considered and, in concluding, a series of recommendations are made to maintain the momentum for global geoconservation. Particularly critical is the better and wider communication of the value of geodiversity and geoconservation for the delivery of global geoconservation.
The World Heritage Convention could make a bigger and more systematic contribution to global wilderness conservation by: (1) ensuring the World Heritage List includes full coverage of Earth's ...wilderness areas with outstanding universal value and (2) more effectively protecting the ecological integrity of existing World Heritage sites. Here, we assess current coverage of globalâscale wilderness areas within natural World Heritage sites and identify broad gaps where new wilderness sites should be identified for inclusion in the World Heritage List. We also consider how existing mechanisms under the Convention can improve the ecological integrity of existing sites by expanding or buffering them, and by promoting connectivity between World Heritage sites, between World Heritage sites and other protected areas, or both. We suggest that the Convention should consider a new mechanism called a âWorld Heritage Wilderness Complexâ to facilitate a wilderness approach. Finally, we map three landscapes and one seascape to illustrate how World Heritage Wilderness Complexes might be implemented.
The List of World Heritage in Danger Badman, Tim; Debonnet, Guy
Environmental policy and law,
10/2009, Letnik:
39, Številka:
4/5
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In June 2009, at the request of the World Heritage Committee, IUCN in consultation with the UNESCO World Heritage Centre published a new compendium reviewing the application of the List of World ...Heritage in Danger to natural heritage sites. The List of World Heritage in Danger is a key conservation tool under the 1972 World Heritage Convention to conserve the Outstanding Universal Value of the sites inscribed on the World Heritage List. The IUCN Compendium, entitled "World Heritage in Danger" was presented to the World Heritage Committee at its 33rd session, which took place in Sevilla, Spain in June 2009. The objectives of the List of World Heritage in Danger are clearly established in the World Heritage Convention and the Operational Guidelines. They are essentially to provide the assistance of the international community to inscribed World Heritage properties, through a process governed by the World Heritage Committee.
The 1972 UNESCO Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, generally called the World Heritage Convention, recognizes places (termed properties within the ...Convention) that are of “Outstanding Universal Value.” The convention has a significant role in identifying and protecting properties with geomorphological values, and around 41% of the natural properties on the World Heritage List have been recognized for their geological values. A thematic approach has been proposed by IUCN, the advisers on natural heritage, to aid the identification and protection of World Heritage properties with earth science values.
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