What is it about?
The conservation of 'Nature's Strongholds', protected and conserved areas that are large (typically <5000 sq km), interconnected, with high ecological integrity, and are well-managed and equitably governed, offers a powerful way to protect global biodiversity. Examples from Amazonia and Central Africa.
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Why is it important?
The approach responds to the Global Biodiversity Framework, signed by the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, which advocates conserving a global area of 30% by 2030.
Perspectives
In this article, authors from conservation organizations, academia, multilateral and bilateral donors, and private foundations come together to promote a common strategy that effectively and disproportionately conserves nature and biodiversity at a global scale.
John Robinson
Wildlife Conservation Society
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This page is a summary of: Scaling up area-based conservation to implement the Global Biodiversity Framework’s 30x30 target: The role of Nature’s Strongholds, PLoS Biology, May 2024, PLOS,
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002613.
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