The performance and potential of protected areas

By James E. M. Watson, N. Dudley, Daniel B. Segan, Marc Hockings. Nature, 2014

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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The performance of African protected areas for lions and their prey (2017, positive): “Inadequate financial and human resources undermines the effectiveness of PAmanagement throughoutmuch of the tropics (Balmford and Whitten, 2003; Watson et al., 2014), but nowhere more so thanAfrica (James et al., 1999).”
A global-level assessment of the effectiveness of protected areas at resisting anthropogenic pressures (2019, background): “Despite wide recognition of the importance of understanding the role PAs in conserving biodiversity (6), assessing the performance of PAs has proved challenging, and evidence remains relatively sparse (7) although more recent studies have started to examine PA performance.”
Core principles for successfully implementing and upscaling Nature-based Solutions (2019, background): “While NbS embrace nature conservation, not all conservation actions necessarily qualify as a NbS (Watson et al., 2014).”
Protected areas are now the last strongholds for many imperiled mammal species (2020, background): “The most likely explanation is that PAs, especially when well resourced, managed, and wellplaced within the wider landscape, have every chance in halting the threatening processes causingmammal decline (Coad et al., 2019; Edgar, Stuart-Smith, Willis, & Nature, 2014;Watson et al., 2014).”
Assessing global patterns in mammalian carnivore occupancy and richness by integrating local camera trap surveys (2017, background): “Maintaining, expanding and effectively managing these areas is crucial to the conservation of carnivore diversity as well as to safeguarding landscapes and protecting essential ecosystem services (Bertzky et al., 2012; Watson et al., 2014).”
Protected areas and spatial conservation priorities for endemic vertebrates of the Gran Chaco, one of the most threatened ecoregions of the world (2016, background): “Protected areas (PAs) are the cornerstone for conservation biodiversity; however, their coverage and effectiveness strongly depend on a suitable selection (Pouzols et al., 2014; Watson et al., 2014).”
Livestock grazing in protected areas and its effects on large mammals in the Hyrcanian forest, Iran (2018, background): “them lose rare and ecologically sensitive large mammals at alarming rates due to insufficient size and poor protection from overexploitation and other threats (Watson et al., 2014; Maxwell et al., 2016).”
Forest Resources Assessment of 2015 shows positive global trends but forest loss and degradation persist in poor tropical countries (2015, background): “…biodiversity (Joppa and Pfaff, 2009; Sloan et al., 2012), and given their inevitably limited extent, this expansion of protected-forests has been inadequate to safeguard biodiversity and ecological services generally (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 2005; Watson et al., 2014; Miura et al., 2015).”
Climate change challenges the current conservation strategy for the giant panda. (2015, background): “Networks of protected areas remain the most valuable resource for conserving the species’ persistence (Gaston et al., 2006; Hole et al., 2009; Joppa et al., 2008; Watson et al., 2014).”
What are the effects of nature conservation on human well-being? A systematic map of empirical evidence from developing countries (2016, background): “, protected areas or payment for environmental services [33, 55].”