Reconsidering priorities for forest conservation when considering the threats of mining and armed conflict.

ABSTRACT: Many threats to biodiversity can be predicted and are well mapped but others are uncertain in their extent, impact on biodiversity, and ability for conservation efforts to address, making them more difficult to account for in spatial conservation planning efforts, and as a result, they are often ignored. Here, we use a spatial prioritisation analysis to evaluate the consequences of considering only relatively well-mapped threats to biodiversity and compare this with planning scenarios that also account for more uncertain threats (in this case mining and armed conflict) under different management strategies. We evaluate three management strategies to address these more uncertain threats: 1. to ignore them; 2. avoid them; or 3. specifically target actions towards them, first individually and

SUBMITTER: Williams BA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9287519 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature