Safety Net Ontario: Ontario’s outsized role in the “Global Safety Net” for climate and biodiversity
Dinerstein et al. present a spatially explicit global framework for protected areas needed to reverse catastrophic biodiversity losses and stabilize climate. The Province of Ontario (Canada) stands out in this “Global Safety Net (GSN)” as a critical jurisdiction for meeting those goals, because of b...
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crcansciencepubl:10.1139/facets-2022-0126 2023-12-17T10:30:15+01:00 Safety Net Ontario: Ontario’s outsized role in the “Global Safety Net” for climate and biodiversity Finkelstein, Sarah A Doherty, Cathal Loder, Amanda L. Bataille, Clément pierre 2023 http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/facets-2022-0126 https://facetsjournal.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/facets-2022-0126 en eng Canadian Science Publishing FACETS volume 8, page 1-17 ISSN 2371-1671 Multidisciplinary journal-article 2023 crcansciencepubl https://doi.org/10.1139/facets-2022-0126 2023-11-19T13:38:21Z Dinerstein et al. present a spatially explicit global framework for protected areas needed to reverse catastrophic biodiversity losses and stabilize climate. The Province of Ontario (Canada) stands out in this “Global Safety Net (GSN)” as a critical jurisdiction for meeting those goals, because of both the large extent of roadless lands and high carbon storage in terrestrial ecosystems. Simultaneously, pressure is increasing to develop unmanaged lands in Ontario, particularly in the Far North, for resource extraction. Here, we extract data from the GSN to identify and calculate the areal extent of target regions present in Ontario and critically review the results in terms of accuracy and implications for conservation. We show that when region-specific data are incorporated, Ontario is even more significant than what is shown in the GSN, especially in terms of carbon stocks in forested and open peatlands. Additionally, the biodiversity metrics used in the GSN only partially capture opportunities for conservation in Ontario, and the officially recognized extent of Indigenous lands vastly underestimates the role of First Nations in conservation. Despite these limitations, our analyses indicate that Ontario plays an outsized role in terms of its potential to impact the trajectories both of biodiversity and climate globally. Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations Canadian Science Publishing (via Crossref) Canada FACETS 8 1 17 |
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Dinerstein et al. present a spatially explicit global framework for protected areas needed to reverse catastrophic biodiversity losses and stabilize climate. The Province of Ontario (Canada) stands out in this “Global Safety Net (GSN)” as a critical jurisdiction for meeting those goals, because of both the large extent of roadless lands and high carbon storage in terrestrial ecosystems. Simultaneously, pressure is increasing to develop unmanaged lands in Ontario, particularly in the Far North, for resource extraction. Here, we extract data from the GSN to identify and calculate the areal extent of target regions present in Ontario and critically review the results in terms of accuracy and implications for conservation. We show that when region-specific data are incorporated, Ontario is even more significant than what is shown in the GSN, especially in terms of carbon stocks in forested and open peatlands. Additionally, the biodiversity metrics used in the GSN only partially capture opportunities for conservation in Ontario, and the officially recognized extent of Indigenous lands vastly underestimates the role of First Nations in conservation. Despite these limitations, our analyses indicate that Ontario plays an outsized role in terms of its potential to impact the trajectories both of biodiversity and climate globally. |
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Safety Net Ontario: Ontario’s outsized role in the “Global Safety Net” for climate and biodiversity |
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