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Protecting Mountains: Where will the next Mountain Protected Areas come from?

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If you are interested in the global protection of Mountains and want to contribute to and collaborate on developing a decision support tool to determine where efforts are most needed to protect inadequately protected mountains, you are needed at this session.
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The world’s system of protected areas includes many outstanding areas within the global mountainous landscape and ecosystem. Outside Antarctica, about 17% of Mountain Areas are protected globally; nevertheless significant mountain areas are not adequately protected. The WCPA Mountains Specialist Group has been developing a decision support framework to determine where the most important mountain areas are that are not adequately protected. Key Biodiversity Areas (KBA’s) are an initial indicator of high environmental values. Analysis has shown that of about 4000 KBA sites in mountains, 50% of KBAs are only partially protected and 30% of KBAs are entirely unprotected. This session will present and seek feedback on a decision support tool developed to determine how we prioritize and rank the values and importance of inadequately protected mountain areas. This will identify global priorities for establishing new mountain protected areas and targets to advocate for protection.
  • IUCN Commission on Ecosystems Management (CEM)
  • IUCN Global Protected Areas Programme
  • United Nations FAO Mountain Partnership: Yuka Makino Coordinator
  • Plateau Perspectives Marc Foggin: Director.
  • Network for Research on Mountain Environments of Latin America and the Caribbean. Fausto Samiento.
  • Graeme Worboys Honorary Associate Professor; Australian National University; Fenner School
  • ICIMOD: Nakul Chettri, PhD Sr Biodiversity Specialist and Focal Person: IPBES, CBD, ABCDNet, Programme Coordinator: Kangchenjunga Landscape Conservation and Development Initiative Transboundary Landscape Programme International Centre for Integrated Mount

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