SYMP 22 - Toward 30x30 - a science-based strategy for area-based conservation in North America

Organizer(s)

• WJ

  Walter Jetz

  Professor
  Yale University
  New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Co-organizer(s)

• JM

  Jennifer McGowan

  The Nature Conservancy, United States

Moderator(s)

• JM

  Jennifer McGowan

  The Nature Conservancy, United States

2022 is a momentous year for biodiversity. In early summer parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD, headquartered in Montreal) will have agreed on the post-2020 global biodiversity framework (GBF). Addressing threats that contribute to species extinctions and affect their role in ensuring ecosystem integrity underpins the GBF’s overarching goal of “healthy and resilient populations of all species” and "reduced extinction rates”. Although multiple actions are needed to safeguard biodiversity, establishing targets for protected areas and other effective area-based conservation measures (OECMs) is recognized as a primary mechanism to achieve this goal.



Following ambitious, longer-term visions, broad consensus has emerged for a global target to conserve 30% of the planet’s lands and oceans by 2030 (“30 by 30”); Over 60 countries have already pledged to support this target, including the United States where the Biden administration has launched the “America the Beautiful” initiative and committed to "conserving at least 30 percent of [the United States'] lands and oceans by 2030".



There is now an urgent need for the scientific community to provide basic insights, guidance, and spatially explicit information in support of conservation decisions in a changing world, in North America and beyond. Our symposium will provide ESA participants with an overview and synthesis of key relevant dimensions: the larger international policy setting, environmental economic aspects, spatial ecological science, and conservation practice. The first theme will be addressed by the Head of Monitoring, Review and Reporting of the CBD (Jillian Campbell); the second by an environmental economist studying conservation decisions in the United States (Christoph Nolte); the third by a lecture addressing an initiative associated with GEO BON and Map of Life addressing conservation priorities for N American species at management resolution (Walter Jetz); the fourth by a speaker representing the practical challenges of conservation in N America in a changing climate (Mark Anderson).



The symposium talks and summary discussion are aimed at engaging the ecological research community in a synthetic way around the questions and opportunities for a path to 30 by 30 that supports biodiversity in a changing world.






References:



https://www.cbd.int/conferences/post2020



https://www.doi.gov/priorities/america-the-beautiful



Nolte, C. 2020. High-resolution land value maps reveal underestimation of conservation costs in the United States. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117:29577-29583. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2012865117



Jetz, W., J. McGowan, D. S. Rinnan, H. P. Possingham, P. Visconti, B. O’Donnell, M.C. Londoño-Murcia (2021): Include biodiversity representation indicators in area-based conservation targets. Nature Ecology & Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01620-y

Presentations:

• 3:30 PM – 3:50 PM EDT

  Targets, monitoring and science in the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
  

  Presenting Author: Jillian Campbell – UN Convention on Biological Diversity, Montreal
• 3:50 PM – 4:10 PM EDT

  Parcel-level land protection cost in the United States and its implication for conservation decisions
  

  Presenting Author: Christoph Nolte – Boston University
• 4:10 PM – 4:30 PM EDT

  The practice of conserving North American biodiversity in a changing climate
  

  Presenting Author: Mark Anderson – The Nature Conservancy

  Co-Author: Melissa Clark – The Nature Conservancy

  Co-Author: Arlene P. Olivero – The Nature Conservancy

  Co-Author: Analie Barnett – The Nature Conservancy

  Co-Author: Kimberly R. Hall – The Nature Conservancy

  Co-Author: Meredith W. Cornett – The Nature Conservancy

  Co-Author: Marissa Ahlering – The Nature Conservancy

  Co-Author: Michael Schindel – The Nature Conservancy

  Co-Author: Bob Unnasch – The Nature Conservancy

  Co-Author: Carrie Schloss – The Nature Conservancy

  Co-Author: Dick Cameron – The Nature Conservancy
• 4:30 PM – 4:50 PM EDT

  High-resolution scenarios for area-based conservation of North American biodiversity
  

  Presenting Author: Walter Jetz – Yale University

  Co-Author: Alex Killion – Yale University

  Co-Author: Kevin Winner – Yale University

  Co-Author: Kate Ingenloff – Yale University

  Co-Author: Emily Sandall – Yale University

  Co-Author: Yanina V. Sica – Yale University

  Co-Author: Charles Marsh – Yale University

  Co-Author: Jeremy M. Cohen – Yale University

  Co-Author: Ajay Ranipeta – Yale University

  Co-Author: John Wilshire – Yale University

  Co-Author: Kalidan Chefira – Yale University

  Co-Author: Stefan Pinkert – Yale University

  Co-Author: Doug Booher – Yale University

  Co-Author: Bort Edwards – Yale University

  Co-Author: Mario Ribeiro de Moura – Yale University

  Co-Author: David Shen – Yale University

  Co-Author: Matt Rogan – Yale University

  Co-Author: Tamara Rudic – Yale University

  Co-Author: Maisha Lucas – Yale University

  Co-Author: Julia Laterza Barbosa – Yale University

  Co-Author: Lia Vogas – Yale University

  Co-Author: Jennifer McGowan – The Nature Conservancy

  Co-Author: Mark Anderson – The Nature Conservancy

  Co-Author: Matthew Kling, n/a – University of Vermont

  Co-Author: Healy Hamilton – Natureserve

  Co-Author: Regan Smyth – Natureserve

  Co-Author: Christoph Nolte – Boston University
• 4:50 PM – 5:00 PM EDT

  Discussion