Ecosystem services assessment in Timor Leste

How much do ecosystem services value and how much of this value is hold in protected areas? Though these questions are very difficult to answer, providing evidence of nature contribution to people and the role of protected areas as sources of values rather than sink is key in the process of conservation endorsement, particularly when monetary value is accounted for. In this report we present ecosystem services evaluation and mapping in Timor-Leste based on two approaches: global monetary value summaries and national experts evaluations. The analysis was conducted at national scale and protected site levels and reveals data gaps, important differences in the outcomes of the two approaches, and overall a very low protection of marine services.

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