What is Threatening Forests in Protected Areas? A Global Assessment of Deforestation in Protected Areas, 2001-2018.

ABSTRACT: The protection of forests is crucial to providing important ecosystem services, such as supplying clean air and water, safeguarding critical habitats for biodiversity, and reducing global greenhouse gas emissions. Despite this importance, global forest loss has steadily increased in recent decades. Protected Areas (PAs) currently account for almost 15% of Earth's terrestrial surface and protect 5% of global tree cover and were developed as a principal approach to limit the impact of anthropogenic activities on natural, intact ecosystems and habitats. We assess global trends in forest loss inside and outside of PAs, and land cover following this forest loss, using a global map of tree cover loss and global maps of land cover. While forests in PAs experience loss at lower rates than non-prot

SUBMITTER: Wade CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7592705 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature