Antarctica and the strategic plan for biodiversity

The Strategic Plan for Biodiversity, adopted under the auspices of the Convention on Biological Diversity, provides the basis for taking effective action to curb biodiversity loss across the planet by 2020—an urgent imperative. Yet, Antarctica and the Southern Ocean, which encompass 10% of the plane...

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Main Authors: Chown, SL, Brooks, CM, Terauds, A, Le Bohec, C, van Klaveren-Impagliazzo, C, Whittington, JD, Butchart, SHM, Coetzee, BWT, Collen, B, Convey, P, Gaston, KJ, Gilbert, N, Gill, M, Hoft, R, Johnston, S, Kennicutt, MC, Kriesell, HJ, Le Maho, Y, Lynch, HJ, Palomares, M, Puig-Marco, R, Stoett, P, McGeoch, MA
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE 2017
Subjects:
Science & Technology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Biology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics
SOUTHERN-OCEAN
EXPERT KNOWLEDGE
MANAGEMENT
SCIENCE
POLICY
APPROPRIATE
TOOTHFISH
VARIABLES
TARGETS
AREA
Antarctic
Southern Ocean
The Antarctic
Antarc*
Antarctica
Online Access:https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1549827/1/Collen_journal.pbio.2001656.pdf
https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1549827/
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Summary:The Strategic Plan for Biodiversity, adopted under the auspices of the Convention on Biological Diversity, provides the basis for taking effective action to curb biodiversity loss across the planet by 2020—an urgent imperative. Yet, Antarctica and the Southern Ocean, which encompass 10% of the planet’s surface, are excluded from assessments of progress against the Strategic Plan. The situation is a lost opportunity for biodiversity conservation globally. We provide such an assessment. Our evidence suggests, surprisingly, that for a region so remote and apparently pristine as the Antarctic, the biodiversity outlook is similar to that for the rest of the planet. Promisingly, however, much scope for remedial action exists.

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