Abstract
A recipe for achieving aichi: conservation planning for 2020 biodiversity targets.
Highlights
While much remains to be known, decades of careful research have documented rapid global declines of biodiversity at the hands of humans, perhaps approaching rates not seen since the last mass extinction more than 65 million years ago
Because the primary driver of biodiversity loss is habitat loss, one of the main strategic goals of the Aichi Targets includes increasing the amount of protected terrestrial habitat from the current 13% to 17% across the globe by 2020 (Aichi Target 11)
With nearly 200 nations agreeing to the principles of the Aichi Targets, this could lead to the most rapid rate of land preservation in history, even if the targets are not fully achieved
Summary
While much remains to be known, decades of careful research have documented rapid global declines of biodiversity at the hands of humans, perhaps approaching rates not seen since the last mass extinction more than 65 million years ago. As pointed out by Venter and colleagues in this issue of PLOS Biology, the targets for protecting land and for protecting threatened species are not necessarily congruent, and a ‘‘business-as-usual’’ approach for land preservation to achieve the 17% target will do very little to increase the protection of threatened species.
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