Abstract
Using diversity indices for identifying the priority sites for herpetofauna conservation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Highlights
Amphibians and reptiles are important components of biological diversity in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
The Democratic Republic of the Congo has defined a National Biodiversity Strategy as framework for decision-making in order to increase the percentage of Protected Areas in the country from 11.07% in 2016 up to 15% by 2020, as estimated by the Congolese Wildlife Authority which is called «Institut Congolais pour la Conservation de la Nature» and outlined by the World Database on Protected Areas (UNEP-WCMC, 2016)
We developed considerable efforts to reduce the imbalance by performing the following techniques: (1) intensification of searches in the unexplored areas of the Congo Basin by increasing the number of the survey sites from ten to eighteen; (2) areas located inside and outside of the Protected Areas were surveyed; (3) the research team was expanded by involving international collaborators from the University of Texas at El Paso (USA), Belgium, Denmark, South Africa, Uganda, the Czech Republic, Congo Brazzaville and Uganda (Greenbaum, 2017)
Summary
Amphibians and reptiles are important components of biological diversity in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It covers and regulates the procedures for creating and managing Protected Areas and holds the ban on poaching and habitat degradation It provides guidelines for protecting fauna, flora and microorganisms and encourages scientists to undertake research on the biological diversity in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in relation with the international instruments. In accordance with this law, our long-term and large-scale surveys show that Protected Area design policy should be framed by strong ecological baselines rather than conservation institutional factors
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