Measuring the extent and effectiveness of protected areas as an indicator for meeting global biodiversity targets

By S. Chape, J. Harrison, M. Spalding, I. Lysenko. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2005

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• Conservation and Development: Evidence from Thai Protected Areas (2010, neutral): “Protected areas now cover more than 12% of global land area [1] and are a critical environmental policy tool.”
• Beyond exclusion: alternative approaches to biodiversity conservation in the developing tropics (2010, background): “Today, there are over 100,000 protected areas that cover 12% of the Earth’s land area [1], of which 28% (by area) are in the tropics.”
• Conservation and human behaviour: lessons from social psychology. (2010, background): “Over the past decades, biodiversity conservation has received increasing attention: protected area coverage has increased (Chape et al. 2005), and 193 nations have signed the United Nation’s Convention on Biological Diversity (UNEP 2010).”
• Status of a protected area system in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas: An analysis of PA coverage (2008, background): “In the HKH, land-use and land-cover change have important implications for the development of indicators to measure the effectiveness of PAs in terms of conservation (Chape et al. 2005; Balmford et al. 2005).”
• A Meta-Analysis of Human–Wildlife Conflict: South African and Global Perspectives (2016, background): “Africa houses the world’s largest reservoirs of wild animal populations in terms of density and diversity compared with the rest of the world [24,25].”
• The rise of large-scale marine protected areas: Conservation or geopolitics? (2013, background): “In 2008, only a few countries have come close to meeting targets (Marinesque et al., 2012) and, according to projections based on current progress, global MPA coverage targets will only be met in 2048 (Chape et al., 2005; Spalding et al., 2008; Wood et al., 2008).”
• Changing Drivers of Deforestation and New Opportunities for Conservation (2009, background): “By 2004, protected areas (IUCN categories I–VI) encompassed nearly 18.9% of the world’s tropical humid forest biome (Chape et al. 2005:450) and covered a larger percentage of all land in the low latitude tropics, within 10◦ of the equator, than at any other latitude (Brooks et al. 2009 [this…”
• Climate‐based models of spatial patterns of species richness in Egypt’s butterfly and mammal fauna (2009, background): “Global estimates of the effectiveness of protected areas generally suggest poor coverage of biodiversity (Chape et al., 2005).”