Planning forest restoration within private land holdings with conservation co-benefits at the landscape scale

Niemeyer, Julia; Barros, Felipe S. M.; Silva, Daniel S.; Crouzeilles, Renato; Vale, Mariana M.

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.135262

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“…Landowners around the Desengano State Park produce mostly for subsistence or small local markets, and do not compete with other State production areas [32]. This may represent a great opportunity for forest restoration to comply with the law at lower cost, because the cost of restoring a productive land instead of using it for other practices will not be too high [23]. Forest restoration in the region has the opportunity of increasing landscape connectivity, promoting biodiversity conservation while increasing quality of life for local communities.…”

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“…About 80% of the remaining Atlantic Forest vegetation has less than 50 ha and is inside private lands [22], thus forest restoration within private lands is essential to reconnect protected areas and improve conservation outcomes [23]. With that in mind, the Brazilian Native Vegetation Protection Law (Law No.…”

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“…Niemeyer et al . [23] showed that forest restoration inside private lands in the Atlantic Forest has the potential to increase landscape permeability which, complemented by the conservation of remaining forested areas, contributes to biodiversity conservation in the long term.…”

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Sustainability issues in a tropical mega trail

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Sustainability is a target that involves many socio-ecological questions, depends on opportunities and combines different initiatives. This can be especially difficult in regions with high biodiversity scores, mega cities, high level of human populations and an intense and long-standing land use. Here, we show how a mega trail, named Atlantic Forest Trail, within the Brazilian Atlantic Forest can join the protection of biodiversity and sustainable tourism through a 4270 km corridor connecting protected areas and crossing a variety of landscapes. Further, we show some initiatives of ongoing biodiversity monitoring, and an analysis of ecological restoration in private lands that can be applied in many regions to improve habitat connectivity for both biodiversity and human use.

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“…Many such programs have demonstrated success at maintaining imperiled bird populations outside PAs (Munro, Lindenmayer, & Fischer, 2007). Broadscale private land conservation actions such as ecological restoration can also benefit species populations on public land, if there is connectivity between populations on public and private land, and/or if restoration improves connectivity between protected areas (Niemeyer, Barros, Silva, Crouzeilles, & Vale, 2020).…”

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Variable effects of protected areas on long‐term multispecies trends for Australia's imperiled birds

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Protected areas are important for preventing biodiversity declines, yet indicators of species' trends in protected areas rarely include threatened species. We use data from the first national Threatened Species Index developed in Australia to report on trends for threatened and near‐threatened birds inside and outside terrestrial and marine protected areas. We adopted the Living Planet Index to calculate trends for 39 bird taxa at 16,742 monitoring sites (11,539 inside and 5,203 outside PAs) between 1985 and 2016. At a continental scale, the overall decline in the national index was smaller inside protected areas (66% decrease in average population abundance) than outside (77%), although after 2000 declines were greater within (36%) versus outside (26%) protected areas. Five out of seven jurisdictions showed similar switching in patterns over time. Protected areas initially had a greater net positive effect on trends of more imperiled birds than less imperiled birds, but between 2000 and 2016 declines of the most imperiled birds were greater inside protected areas than outside. Our analyses suggest that the effectiveness of Australia's protected area network at improving trends in threatened species has weakened, and support the hypothesis that trends for terrestrial birds outside PAs might be improving due to increased conservation efforts on private land. Although this study represents the most comprehensive collation of threatened species population time series and trends ever for Australia, the number of monitoring sites inside PAs was double that outside PAs, even though on average, more than 70% of threatened bird distributions occur outside PAs, with important gaps in monitoring across space, time and taxa that need to be filled to fully understand the effectiveness of public and private conservation actions at a national level. The results underline the importance of active management plus monitoring to track and report on long‐term trends across species.

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“…In a scenario of land competition and conflicts, the set-up of policies, rules, rights and obligations is extremely important to accomplish a sustainable zoning of land use in the rural areas where forest cover is ample. However, the implementation of an effective framework is challenging because the share of private properties where the breakdown of forest cover occurs is vast and the owners of these lands are seldom sensitive to environmental issues [32][33][34][35]. This is particularly evident in Brazil where the routes to keep the benefits of an ecosystem at the center of agricultural productivity or urban development diverge considerably between the economic and conservationist spheres.…”

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The Configuration of Forest Cover in Ribeirão Preto: A Diagnosis of Brazil’s Forest Code Implementation

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The fragmentation of forests is a consequence of human activities that intensively change the natural landscapes. In Brazil, there is a long-standing legal framework for native vegetation protection, called Forest Code. The last update is from 2012. The revisions incorporated in this restructured code (Law No. 12,651/12) encompassed new rules, rights and obligations for adequate land use management of productive systems and for environmental conservation and protection. An example of a protective measure was the creation of a Legal Reserve inside the rural properties and Areas of Permanent Protection around the watercourses. This study explored the effects of implementing the new code on the spatial and temporal evolution of forest cover fragmentation since the legal changes were set up. In that context, the area, perimeter and shape (circularity index) of forest fragments, as well as the buffer strips along watercourses, were assessed from 2010 to 2016 within the municipality of Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo state, Brazil. The assessment resorted to remote sensing techniques and visual inspection of orbital images. It was clear from the results that forest patches became more abundant but smaller, more dispersed and elongated, and that this route to fragmentation was hinged on a chaotic expansion of urban and agricultural areas. Important edge effects were anticipated from these results. The area numbers revealed that Ribeirão Preto was 7.95% covered with forest fragments in 2010, while this percentage rose to 8.03% in 2013 and reached 8.35% in 2016. Most of this increase occurred within a 30-meter wide buffer along the watercourses. This was a positive outcome. However, the numbers also revealed that forested areas smaller than 51 hectares increased from 71% in 2010 to 73% in 2016. The conclusions were that implementation of Law No. 12,651/12 is leading to an increase of forestland, but not yet promoting sustainability, namely through improved connectivity among fragments for reduction of edge effects and provision ecosystem services.

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Planning forest restoration within private land holdings with conservation co-benefits at the landscape scale

Cited by 23 publications

References 42 publications

Sustainability issues in a tropical mega trail

Sustainability issues in a tropical mega trail

Variable effects of protected areas on long‐term multispecies trends for Australia's imperiled birds

The Configuration of Forest Cover in Ribeirão Preto: A Diagnosis of Brazil’s Forest Code Implementation

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