Sacred natural sites in Italy have landscape characteristics complementary to protected areas: Implications for policy and planning

Frascaroli, Fabrizio; Zannini, Piero; Acosta, Alicia Teresa Rosario; Chiarucci, Alessandro; d'Agostino, Marco; Nascimbene, Juri

doi:10.1016/j.apgeog.2019.102100

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“…Firstly, it is pivotal to undertake large scale surveys of SNS networks at a national or regional scale, as done for instance by Reynolds et al (2016) or Frascaroli et al (2019), to acquire a better sense for the extent of those networks and their distribution across biomes and altitudinal gradients. Moreover, such surveys would lay the foundation for an integrated conservation planning, which simultaneously accounts for PA, OECMs and SNS.…”

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“…OECMs at large, it has been suggested that SNS may constitute a large network of "informal" PA (Dudley et al 2009), potentially reinforcing the official PA networks (Frascaroli et al 2019) and contributing to conservation at global scale. Indeed, it has been reported that SNS have the same, or even higher, levels of species richness as comparable areas and even official reserves (see e.g.…”

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Sacred natural sites and biodiversity conservation: a systematic review

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Sacred natural sites (SNS) have gained recognition from conservationists, and are regarded as the oldest form of habitat protection in human history. Many case studies and literature reviews have been published on the subject. However, an updated and global-level synthesis on the effect of SNS on biodiversity conservation is still lacking. Here, we provide the first systematic review on SNS and biodiversity conservation, aiming to evaluate the effect of SNS across different: (i) continents; (ii) taxa; (iii) metrics. We checked 2750 papers and by applying inclusion criteria we selected 27 relevant papers. From these, we extracted descriptive data and 131 comparisons between SNS and Reference Sites. We applied vote-counting, multinomial and binomial post-hoc tests to the 131 comparisons. We found strong evidence that SNS have a positive effect on biodiversity, but also strong geographical and taxonomical biases, with most research focusing on Asia and Africa and on plants. We found that SNS have mainly positive effects on taxonomical diversity, vegetation structure and cultural uses of biodiversity. Our results strongly support the view that SNS have positive effects on biodiversity across continents and geographical settings, as found in a number of local studies and earlier overviews. These effects should be given official recognition in appropriate conservation frameworks, together with the specific forms of governance and management that characterize SNS. At the same time, further efforts are also required to fill the geographical and taxonomical gaps here highlighted, and to advancing our knowledge of SNS through more systematic research.

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“…in private gardens (Farmer et al 2017). Such efforts refer to other effective area-based conservation measures (OECMs), which are essential complements to protected areas for reaching global conservation targets (Dudley et al 2018, Frascaroli et al 2019).…”

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Advances in conservation biogeography: towards protected area effectiveness under anthropogenic threats

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2021

Frontiers of Biogeography

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“…During the Anthropocene, an extensive fraction of the natural land has been converted into human-influenced biomes, which now represent about 75% of land surface on the Earth (Ellis and Ramankutty 2008;Geisen et al 2019). The transformation of the world's ecosystems largely due to urban expansion and intensive agriculture in the Anthropocne has had serious impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services and consequently affecting human well-being (MA 2005;McDonald et al 2008;Paquette and Messier 2010;Emmerson et al 2016;Plieninger et al 2016;Xu et al 2017;Frascaroli et al 2019). In recent decades, humans have altered ecosystems and their services at unprecedented rate and globally 15 out of the 24 ecosystem services are in declining state (MA 2005;Cook et al 2017).…”

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Valuing Ecosystem Services of Sacred Natural Sites in the Anthropocene: A Case Study of Varanasi, India

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Sacred natural sites (SNS) are multi-functional in nature and provide a variety of ecosystem services that contribute to human well-being and environmental sustainability. Interest in the SNS and their role in biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services have grown in the Anthropocene. Researchers suggested that, besides having spiritual and religious values for local community, SNS provide provisioning, regulating, cultural and supporting services. In this study, we identified and valued the importance of ecosystem services provided by SNS in the Varanasi district of Uttar Pradesh, India. The methods used included field work, in-depth literature review, observations, focus-group discussions (FGD) and interviews. This study identified 35 ecosystem services of SNS spanning across four categories including provisioning, regulating, cultural and supporting services. According to the informants, SNS provide a wide range of ecosystem services, with supporting services being most valued followed by cultural, regulating, and provisioning services. We recommend that a sustainable management of SNS should be based on the local people's participation in policy, planning and decision-making and utilization of hybrid knowledge system combining modern science and traditional ecological knowledge. Findings of the research contribute to a growing literature on ecosystem services and provide a basis for future studies to unearth how ecosystem services of SNS can support the achievement of sustainable development goals (SDGs).

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Sacred natural sites in Italy have landscape characteristics complementary to protected areas: Implications for policy and planning

Cited by 19 publications

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Sacred natural sites and biodiversity conservation: a systematic review

Sacred natural sites and biodiversity conservation: a systematic review

Advances in conservation biogeography: towards protected area effectiveness under anthropogenic threats

Valuing Ecosystem Services of Sacred Natural Sites in the Anthropocene: A Case Study of Varanasi, India

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