Regional assessment

CEPF Ecosystem Profile - Technical Summary: Caribbean Islands Biodiversity Hotspot (2019)

Bastian.Bertzky — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 10:21:07 +0000

Language English

The Ecosystem Profile - Technical Summary is available from the following CEPF website in English, French and Spanish: https://www.cepf.net/our-work/biodiversity-hotspots/caribbean-islands

Region

Country

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Saint Lucia

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Trinidad and Tobago

Document Type

Regional assessment

Technical report

Publication year

2019

Document Link

https://www.cepf.net/sites/default/files/cepf-caribbean-islands-ecosystem-profi…

CEPF Ecosystem Profile: Caribbean Islands Biodiversity Hotspot (2019)

Bastian.Bertzky — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 10:18:44 +0000

Language English

The Ecosystem Profile is available from the following CEPF website in English, French and Spanish: https://www.cepf.net/our-work/biodiversity-hotspots/caribbean-islands

Region

Country

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Saint Lucia

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Trinidad and Tobago

Document Type

Regional assessment

Technical report

Publication year

2019

Document Link

https://www.cepf.net/sites/default/files/cepf-caribbean-islands-ecosystem-profi…

Climate change and biodiversity conservation in the Caribbean Islands (2020)

Bastian.Bertzky — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 09:45:09 +0000

Language English

Abstract: Given the important role of climate on species distributions, climate change is expected to have effects on biodiversity conservation. Biodiversity on the Caribbean Islands is characterized by a broad range of distributions, from cosmopolitan species to many rare and endemic species that occupy limited geographic areas. Species most vulnerable to climate change include rare and endemic species in wet upper mountain cloud forests and species in restricted coastal habitats vulnerable to warming oceans and sea level rise. Tropical montane cloud forests harbor endemic and endangered species from many taxa. Rising temperatures, reduced precipitation, decreasing relative humidity, and increasing intensity of hurricanes all present conservation challenges for protecting these species as migration upward to favorable climates is not possible. Coastal habitats are local biodiversity hotspots throughout the Caribbean. Rising and warming seas change conditions by increasing salinity of landward habitats, increasing the likelihood of coral bleaching, and increasing storm surge effects throughout the coastal zone. The high density of people and coastal infrastructure in the Caribbean Islands creates scenarios that limit potential landward migration of species and habitats in response to changing coastal conditions and present challenges in prioritizing land use and conservation.

Citation: Gould, William A.; Castro-Prieto, Jessica; Álvarez-Berríos, Nora L. 2020. Climate change and biodiversity conservation in the Caribbean Islands. In: Goldstein, M.I., DellaSala, D.A. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of the World's Biomes, vol. 1. Elsevier, pp. 114–125. Available online: https://www.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/pubs/61032

Region

ACP Caribbean

Document

Gould2020 EWB Climate Change and Biodiversity Conservation in the Caribbean Islands.pdf

Document Type

Regional assessment

Publication year

2020

Closing the gap: The financing and resourcing of protected and conserved areas in Eastern and Southern Africa (2020)

Bastian.Bertzky — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 14:07:42 +0000

Language English

Citation: IUCN ESARO (2020). Closing the gap. The financing and resourcing of protected and conserved areas in Eastern and Southern Africa. Nairobi, Kenya: IUCN ESARO; BIOPAMA.

Region

Eastern Africa

Southern Africa

Document

IUCN2020 Closing the funding gap - report.pdf

Document Type

Regional assessment

Technical report

Publication year

2020

Document Theme

PAME (Protected Area Management Effectiveness)

Closing the gap: The financing and resourcing of protected and conserved areas in Eastern and Southern Africa (2020) - Knowledge Brief

Bastian.Bertzky — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 14:12:06 +0000

Language English

Citation: IUCN ESARO (2020). Closing the gap. The financing and resourcing of protected and conserved areas in Eastern and Southern Africa. Knowledge Brief. Nairobi, Kenya: IUCN ESARO; BIOPAMA.

Region

Eastern Africa

Southern Africa

Document

IUCN2020 Closing the funding gap - brief_1.pdf

Document Type

Regional assessment

Other

Publication year

2020

Document Theme

PAME (Protected Area Management Effectiveness)

Congo Basin Forest Protected Areas: RAPPAM Assessment 2010

Bastian.Bertzky — Tue, 15 Dec 2020 13:32:07 +0000

Language English

RAPPAM assessment report - also available on the IUCN PAPACO website:

https://papaco.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/RAPPAM-central-africa-Congo-Basin.pdf

Region

Central Africa

Country

Cameroon

Central African Republic

Congo

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Equatorial Guinea

Gabon

Document

RAPPAM-Congo-Basin-Central-Africa-2010.pdf

Document Type

Site-level assessment

Regional assessment

Technical report

Publication year

2010

Document Theme

PAME (Protected Area Management Effectiveness)

How effective are the protected areas of East Africa?

Bastian.Bertzky — Thu, 09 Apr 2020 09:24:30 +0000

Language English

Abstract: Protected areas are the cornerstone of in situ conservation and their effective management is critical for maintaining biodiversity in the long term. In East Africa (Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda) there are 1,776 protected areas (including 186 “strict” protected areas with IUCN management categories I through IV) covering more than 27% of its terrestrial area. Here we document the extent to which East African protected areas encompass ecoregions and endemic terrestrial vertebrate taxa, and using new land conversion data derived from medium to high spatial resolution satellite images, we assess how they have been encroached upon by agriculture and other land use. We find that East African protected areas cover 86% of ecoregions well (>10% threshold of ecoregion representativeness set by the Convention on Biological Diversity's Aichi Target 11), some very well (>90% - Rwenzori-Virunga montane moorlands and East African montane moorlands). In contrast, Masai xeric grasslands and shrublands, Somali Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets, and Southern Swahili coastal forests and woodlands are poorly represented. Protected areas cover at least 10% of the distribution of 256 of 303 East African endemic and near-endemic terrestrial vertebrate species (the latter defined here as having 90% or more of their range in East Africa). However, 37% of these species' ranges do not have at least 10% coverage by strict PAs and only 26% of endemic species have at least half of their range covered by PAs. Encouragingly, we find that only 6.8% of East African protected areas has been converted to agriculture or other human use since gazettement. Only 1.6% of strict protected areas have been converted providing very strong evidence that strict protection is the most enduring way of safeguarding habitat.

Citation: Riggio, J., A.P. Jacobson, R.J. Hijmans and T. Caro (2019). How effective are the protected areas of East Africa? Global Ecology and Conservation 17: e00573. DOI: 10.1016/j.gecco.2019.e00573

Region

Country

United Republic of Tanzania

Uganda

Document Type

Regional assessment

Scientific paper

Publication year

2019

Document Link

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2351989418304323

Document Theme

PAME (Protected Area Management Effectiveness)

Informe Planeta Protegido 2020: Latinoamérica y el Caribe / Latin America and Caribbean Protected Planet Report 2020

Bastian.Bertzky — Fri, 30 Apr 2021 10:08:18 +0000

Language English

Full citation:

Álvarez Malvido, M., Lázaro, C., De Lamo, X., Juffe-Bignoli, D., Cao, R., Bueno, P., Sofrony, C., Maretti, C. y Guerra, F. (Editores). (2021). Informe Planeta Protegido 2020: Latinoamérica y el Caribe. Ciudad de México, México; Cambridge UK; Gland, Switzerland; Bogotá, Colombia: RedParques, UNEP-WCMC, CMAP-UICN, WWF, CONANP y Proyecto IAPA.

Region

Country

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Saint Lucia

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Suriname

Trinidad and Tobago

Document

Latin America and Caribbean Protected Planet Report 2020.pdf

Document Type

Regional assessment

Technical report

Publication year

2021

Document Link

https://redparques.com/modules/ecom/documentos/publicacion/INFORME-WEB-final.pdf

Document Theme

PAME (Protected Area Management Effectiveness)

PAGE (Protected Area Governance and Equity)

IUCN PAPACO Website with RAPPAM, METT and EoH Assessments in Africa

Bastian.Bertzky — Tue, 15 Dec 2020 11:09:47 +0000

Language English

The IUCN Programme on African Protected Areas & Conservation (PAPACO) has, over the years, supported many evaluations of protected area management effectiveness (PAME) in Africa, with a focus on Central and Western Africa. These evaluations were carried out at different levels - site level, national level or regional level - and using different methodologies. These methodologies included the Rapid Assessment and Prioritization of Protected Area Management (RAPPAM), the Management Effectiveness Tracking Tool (METT) and the Enhancing our Heritage (EoH) Toolkit.

The IUCN PAPACO website has a dedicated section where the RAPPAM, METT and EoH evaluations are available:

English: https://papaco.org/evaliations-of-pas/
French: https://papaco.org/fr/evaluations/

More information about the different PAME methodologies is available here: https://rris.biopama.org/pame/tools

Region

Document Type

Site-level assessment

Publication year

2020

Document Link

https://papaco.org/evaliations-of-pas/

Document Theme

PAME (Protected Area Management Effectiveness)

Management Effectiveness, Governance, and Social Assessments of Protected and Conserved Areas in Eastern and Southern Africa

Bastian.Bertzky — Thu, 09 Apr 2020 09:33:49 +0000

Language English

Citation: Campese, J. & Sulle, E. (2019). Management Effectiveness, Governance, and Social Assessments of Protected and Conserved Areas in Eastern and Southern Africa: A rapid inventory and analysis to support the BIOPAMA programme and partners. BIOPAMA, IUCN ESARO.

Region

Eastern Africa

Southern Africa

Document

Campese and Sulle 2019 IUCN Management Effectiveness, Governance and Social Assessments of Protected Areas in Eastern and Southern Africa.pdf

Document Type

Regional assessment

Technical report

Publication year

2019

Document Theme

PAME (Protected Area Management Effectiveness)