Applied science facilitates the large-scale expansion of protected areas in an Amazonian hot spot

Since 2000, collaborative and multidisciplinary field inventories have helped quadruple park coverage in Peru’s richest region. Meeting international commitments to protect 17% of terrestrial ecosystems worldwide will require >3 million square kilometers of new protected areas and strategies to c...

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Published in:	Science advances Vol. 7; no. 31
Main Authors:	Pitman, Nigel C.A., Vriesendorp, Corine F., Alvira Reyes, Diana, Moskovits, Debra K., Kotlinski, Nicholas, Smith, Richard C., Thompson, Michelle E., Wali, Alaka, Benavides Matarazzo, Margarita, del Campo, Álvaro, Rivera González, Dani E., Rivera Chávez, Lelis, Rosenthal, Amy D., Álvarez Alonso, José, Díaz Ñaupari, María Elena, de Souza, Lesley S., Ferreyra Vela, Freddy R., Gonzales Tanchiva, Cristian Ney, Jarrett, Christopher C., Lemos, Ana A., Sáenz Rodríguez, Ana Rosa, Stotz, Douglas F., Suwa, Tomomi, Pariona Fonseca, Mario, Ravikumar, Ashwin, Torres Tuesta, Teofilo, Bravo, Adriana, Catenazzi, Alessandro, Díaz Alván, Juan, Gagliardi-Urrutia, Giussepe, García-Villacorta, Roosevelt, Hidalgo, Max H., Mori Vargas, Tony, Mueses-Cisneros, Jonh J., Núñez-Iturri, Gabriela, Pequeño, Tatiana, Ríos Paredes, Marcos A., Rodríguez, Lily O., Stallard, Robert F., Torres Montenegro, Luis A., Venegas, Pablo J., von May, Rudolf, Barbagelata Ramírez, Nélida, Maldonado Ocampo, Javier A., Mesones Acuy, Italo
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	American Association for the Advancement of Science 01-07-2021
Subjects:	Applied Ecology SciAdv r-articles
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Summary:	Since 2000, collaborative and multidisciplinary field inventories have helped quadruple park coverage in Peru’s richest region. Meeting international commitments to protect 17% of terrestrial ecosystems worldwide will require >3 million square kilometers of new protected areas and strategies to create those areas in a way that respects local communities and land use. In 2000–2016, biological and social scientists worked to increase the protected proportion of Peru’s largest department via 14 interdisciplinary inventories covering >9 million hectares of this megadiverse corner of the Amazon basin. In each landscape, the strategy was the same: convene diverse partners, identify biological and sociocultural assets, document residents’ use of natural resources, and tailor the findings to the needs of decision-makers. Nine of the 14 landscapes have since been protected (5.7 million hectares of new protected areas), contributing to a quadrupling of conservation coverage in Loreto (from 6 to 23%). We outline the methods and enabling conditions most crucial for successfully applying similar campaigns elsewhere on Earth.
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ISSN:	2375-2548 2375-2548
DOI:	10.1126/sciadv.abe2998