Uneven conservation efforts compromise Brazil to meet the Target 11 of Convention on Biological Diversity
Brazil is the most biodiverse country in the world. It performed an expansion of its Protected Areas system in order to better preserve nature and to accomplish international agreements, such as the Target 11 of the Convention on Biological Diversity, which establishes a minimum percentage of territ...
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| author | André A. Pacheco Ana Carolina O. Neves G. Wilson Fernandes |
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| description | Brazil is the most biodiverse country in the world. It performed an expansion of its Protected Areas system in order to better preserve nature and to accomplish international agreements, such as the Target 11 of the Convention on Biological Diversity, which establishes a minimum percentage of territorial coverage and adequate management of Protected Areas (PAs). We evaluated the achievement of those objectives by analyzing the distribution of Conservation Units (CUs), Indigenous Territories and other classes of PAs on Brazilian biomes, as well as their current management situation. The country is unlikely to meet the target due to the lack of PAs outside the Amazon biome and to poor CUs management conditions, whose main causes are the fragile financial situation of environmental agencies and the high costs of land tenure regularization. In addition to other environmental policies setbacks, the Brazilian environmental leadership is seriously threatened. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-db92d07464b84282afd05ae72983e0d22022-12-21T22:32:55ZengElsevierPerspectives in Ecology and Conservation2530-06442018-01-011614348Uneven conservation efforts compromise Brazil to meet the Target 11 of Convention on Biological DiversityAndré A. Pacheco0Ana Carolina O. Neves1G. Wilson Fernandes2Corresponding author.; Laboratório de Ecologia Evolutiva & Biodiversidade, ICB, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, BrazilLaboratório de Ecologia Evolutiva & Biodiversidade, ICB, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, BrazilLaboratório de Ecologia Evolutiva & Biodiversidade, ICB, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, BrazilBrazil is the most biodiverse country in the world. It performed an expansion of its Protected Areas system in order to better preserve nature and to accomplish international agreements, such as the Target 11 of the Convention on Biological Diversity, which establishes a minimum percentage of territorial coverage and adequate management of Protected Areas (PAs). We evaluated the achievement of those objectives by analyzing the distribution of Conservation Units (CUs), Indigenous Territories and other classes of PAs on Brazilian biomes, as well as their current management situation. The country is unlikely to meet the target due to the lack of PAs outside the Amazon biome and to poor CUs management conditions, whose main causes are the fragile financial situation of environmental agencies and the high costs of land tenure regularization. In addition to other environmental policies setbacks, the Brazilian environmental leadership is seriously threatened.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2530064417300561Protected AreasManagement assessmentAichi TargetsTerritorial protectionEnvironmental policy |
| spellingShingle | André A. Pacheco Ana Carolina O. Neves G. Wilson Fernandes Uneven conservation efforts compromise Brazil to meet the Target 11 of Convention on Biological Diversity Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation Protected Areas Management assessment Aichi Targets Territorial protection Environmental policy |
| title | Uneven conservation efforts compromise Brazil to meet the Target 11 of Convention on Biological Diversity |
| title_full | Uneven conservation efforts compromise Brazil to meet the Target 11 of Convention on Biological Diversity |
| title_fullStr | Uneven conservation efforts compromise Brazil to meet the Target 11 of Convention on Biological Diversity |
| title_full_unstemmed | Uneven conservation efforts compromise Brazil to meet the Target 11 of Convention on Biological Diversity |
| title_short | Uneven conservation efforts compromise Brazil to meet the Target 11 of Convention on Biological Diversity |
| title_sort | uneven conservation efforts compromise brazil to meet the target 11 of convention on biological diversity |
| topic | Protected Areas Management assessment Aichi Targets Territorial protection Environmental policy |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2530064417300561 |
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