What is it about?
Conservation covenants are an important and growing way to protect nature on private land (designed to last in perpetuity - forever). We have collated for the first time all the available data at a national scale on the permanence of conservation covenants from all major covenanting programs in Australia. The results suggest conservation covenants are an enduring protection mechanism. Covenants do face some challenges into the future, and ongoing monitoring and reporting will be important to ensure the permanence of these agreements.
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Why is it important?
Conservation covenants can be recognised as Privately Protected Areas (PPAs), and in some cases contribute to national nature conservation targets. Understanding their permanence is important for understanding how they may contribute into the future.
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As well as examining how permanent conservation covenants are, this article explores what sorts of issues might affect the permanence of privately protected areas
Mat Hardy
RMIT University
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This page is a summary of: Exploring the Permanence of Conservation Covenants, Conservation Letters, May 2016, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/conl.12243.
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