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AUTHOR
Santiago Saura
Protected area connectivity shortfalls and country-level priorities: global and European insights
Connectivity of protected areas (PAs) is crucial for meeting their conservation goals. We evaluate the progress of all countries towards Aichi Target 11 of the Convention on Biological Diversity, which is to have at least 17% of the land covered by well-connected PA systems by 2020. We globally quantify how well the terrestrial PA systems of countries are designed to promote connectivity, using the Protected Connected (ProtConn) indicator [1]. In this global analysis, we focus in the part of the PA connectivity that is in the power of a country to influence, i.e. not penalizing countries for PA isolation due to the sea and to foreign lands. We found that globally only 7.5% of the area of th…
DOPA Explorer 2.0: A web based tool assessing all large protected areas in support to conservation policies
The Digital Observatory for Protected Areas (DOPA) has been developed to support the European Union's efforts in strengthening our capacity to mobilize and use biodiversity data, information and forecasts so that they are readily accessible to policymakers, managers, experts and other users. Conceived as a set of web based services [1,2], DOPA provides a broad set of free and open source tools to assess, monitor and even forecast the state of and pressure on protected areas at local, regional and global scale. Recognized by the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) as a reference information system, DOPA Explorer is a web based interface of the DOPA providing simple means to rank prot…