Optimizing protected areas to boost the conservation of key protected wildlife in China

作     者：Chunrong Mi Kai Song Liang Ma Jiliang Xu Baojun Sun Yuehua Sun Jianguo Liu Weiguo Du 

作者机构：Key Laboratory of Animal Ecology and Conservation BiologyInstitute of ZoologyChinese Academy of SciencesBeijing 100101China University of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing 100049China School of EcologyShenzhen Campus of Sun Yat-sen UniversityShenzhen 518107China School of Ecology and Nature ConservationBeijing Forestry UniversityBeijing 100083China Center of Systems Integration and SustainabilityDepartment of Fisheries and WildlifeMichigan State UniversityEast LansingMI 48823USA 

出 版 物：《The Innovation》 (创新（英文）)

年 卷 期：2023年第4卷第3期

页      面：55-62页

核心收录：

学科分类：090504[农学-特种经济动物饲养（含：蚕、蜂等）] 0907[农学-林学] 0905[农学-畜牧学] 09[农学] 0713[理学-生态学] 

基　　金：supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(nos.31720103904 and 31870391) the Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS(no.2019085) 

主　　题：protected habitat optimization 

摘      要：To meet the challenge of biodiversity loss and reach the targets of the proposed Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework,the Chinese government updated the list of national key protected wildlife in 2021 and has been continually expanding the protected areas(PAs).However,the status of protected wildlife in PAs remains *** this study,we conducted a national assessment of the status of protected wildlife and suggested an optimization plan to overcome these *** 1988 to 2021,the number of protected species almost doubled,and the area of PAs increased by 2.4 times,covering over 92.8%of the protected ***,some protected species have less than 10%of their habitat included in *** the significant addition of amphibians and reptiles to the latest protection list,they are the fewest species and are the least covered by PAs compared with birds and *** fix these gaps,we systematically optimized the current PAs network by adding another 10.0%of China’s land area as PAs,which resulted in 37.6%coverage of protected species’habitats in *** addition,26 priority areas were *** research aimed to identify gaps in current conservation policies and suggest optimization solutions to facilitate wildlife conservation planning in *** general,updating the list of key protected wildlife species and systematically optimizing PA networks are essential and applicable to other countries facing biodiversity loss.