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Applied science facilitates the large-scale expansion of protected areas in an Amazonian hot spot
- Source :
- Science Advances
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2021.
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Abstract
- Since 2000, collaborative and multidisciplinary field inventories have helped quadruple park coverage in Peru’s richest region.<br />Meeting international commitments to protect 17% of terrestrial ecosystems worldwide will require >3 million square kilometers of new protected areas and strategies to create those areas in a way that respects local communities and land use. In 2000–2016, biological and social scientists worked to increase the protected proportion of Peru’s largest department via 14 interdisciplinary inventories covering >9 million hectares of this megadiverse corner of the Amazon basin. In each landscape, the strategy was the same: convene diverse partners, identify biological and sociocultural assets, document residents’ use of natural resources, and tailor the findings to the needs of decision-makers. Nine of the 14 landscapes have since been protected (5.7 million hectares of new protected areas), contributing to a quadrupling of conservation coverage in Loreto (from 6 to 23%). We outline the methods and enabling conditions most crucial for successfully applying similar campaigns elsewhere on Earth.
- Subjects :
- 0106 biological sciences
0301 basic medicine
Multidisciplinary
Land use
business.industry
Amazonian
Environmental resource management
SciAdv r-articles
010603 evolutionary biology
01 natural sciences
Natural resource
03 medical and health sciences
030104 developmental biology
Geography
Scale (social sciences)
Terrestrial ecosystem
business
Applied Ecology
Research Articles
Research Article
Amazon basin
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 23752548
- Volume :
- 7
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Science Advances
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....e283786fb9f8024f4ad68b25f4ab4e3e