A bolder conservation future for Indonesia by prioritising biodiversity, carbon and unique ecosystems in Sulawesi.

ABSTRACT: As more ambitious protected area (PA) targets for the post-2020 global biodiversity framework are set beyond Aichi Target 11, renew thinking into spatial prioritisation is required to enable PA expansion that maximises environmental values. Our study focuses on the biodiverse and forest-rich Indonesian island of Sulawesi, which has a terrestrial PA network that covers 10% of the island. We used Marxan to investigate trade-offs in the design of an expanded PA network that prioritised different conservation features (biodiversity, forest cover, carbon stock, karst and valuable metal-rich areas) under varying island-wide coverage targets (17%, 30%, and 50%). Our first scenario, which required existing PAs to be selected, required larger areas to meet these coverage targets, in contrast to our

SUBMITTER: Pusparini W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9842766 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature