Spatiotemporal variation in costs of managing protected areas

Abstract

Funding for protected areas is limited and recurrent costs associated with managing these sites must be considered in planning their acquisition. However, most conservation planning studies either ignore management costs or use snapshot estimates, even though they vary through time. We surveyed expenditures on management made over 15 years for 37 protected areas in the Appalachians that were established by a large land trust (TNC). These management costs varied greatly through both time and space. We explored what ecological

Identifying conservation priority areas for North American bumble bee species in Canada under current and future climate scenarios

“…Although there is international support for increasing protected areas, actual establishment of new protected areas in recent years has failed to meet international targets (CBD, 2020b; Perino et al, 2022; Xu et al, 2021). Establishing protected areas is costly (Wise et al, 2012), and for these protected areas to be effective there are management costs (Le Bouille et al, 2022; Wauchope et al, 2022) and there can be costs for local communities (Green et al, 2018) highlighting the challenges of relying on protected areas for conservation. It may be prudent then to better manage private lands for bumble bee conservation.…”