The Conservation Planning Group

Area-based conservation to protect 30% of the planet by 2030 should embrace a diverse toolbox (ProtectedAreas, OECMs), social justice, and robust monitoring and review processes to ensure effective and equitable outcomes.

Redirecting

Participatory cross-cultural scenario planning helps discuss alternative pathways for the Martuwarra Fitzroy River, Kimberley, Western Australia. Participants created four scenarios and assessed potential changes in wellbeing.

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Evolving capabilities in environmental data collection, sharing, and processing, are enabling unprecedented use of data from a wide range of sources. Yet data freshness, an important quality dimension associated with the age of data, is a poorly reported aspect of data quality that can lead to additional uncertainty in research findings.

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https://theconversation.com/australias-marine-un-protected-areas-government-zoning-bias-has-left-marine-life-in-peril-since-2012-153795

Australia's marine (un)protected areas: government zoning bias has left marine life in peril since 2012 Australia needs to drop the deception that square kilometres say anything meaningful about conservation.

Our recent paper (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108813) is discussed in today's edition of The Conversation, which unfortunately we cannot post here at the moment. You can search for the title if you're interested: Australia’s marine (un)protected areas: government zoning bias has left marine life in peril since 2012.

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Learn more about futures thinking and discuss possible alternative narrative scenarios for Australia in 2030.

Rewrite the Future: Possible Alternative Futures for Australia in 2030 Learn more about futures thinking and discuss possible alternative narrative scenarios for Australia in 2030.

A new study led by Ruby Grantham ( ) found that while (collecting organisms like , , and by hand close to shore) is important for in rough weather, it's still difficult/impossible for some families at certain times of the year. The study found the ability of households to glean in rough weather was influenced by the total area and type of shallow habitat close to the community.

Spatiotemporal determinants of seasonal gleaning A free Plain Language Summary can be found within the Supporting Information of this article.

http://conservationplanning.org/2020/11/representation-does-not-necessarily-reduce-threats-to-biodiversity-australias-commonwealth-marine-protected-area-system-20122018/

Representation does not necessarily reduce threats to biodiversity: Australia’s Commonwealth marine protected area system, 2012–2018 Recent revisions of Australia’s National Representative System of Marine Protected Areas (NRSMPA) have further biased protection of biodiversity away from commercially useful waters, thereby forgoi…

http://conservationplanning.org/2019/01/webinar-learning-from-others-the-new-global-conservation-planning-database/

Webinar – Learning from others: The new global conservation planning database Presenter: Jorge Álvarez-Romero, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University UPDATED Date/Time: Wednesday, February 27, 3 pm in Eastern Time (US and Canada) Descript…

http://conservationplanning.org/2019/01/webinar-learning-from-others-the-new-global-conservation-planning-database/

Webinar – Learning from others: The new global conservation planning database Presenter: Jorge Álvarez-Romero, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University Date/Time: Thursday, February 28, 3 pm US EST/Noon US PST/8 pm UTC Description:&nbs…

How well are we doing in marine conservation planning? Moving fast, but important gaps in geographic coverage, not enough work in threatened areas, little evidence of input from stakeholders! Paper just published (http://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2018.06.027), free access here: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1XtQT1R~e72oA

Research advances and gaps in marine planning: towards a global database in systematic conservation planning Over the last three decades, hundreds of systematic conservation planning (SCP) studies were produced, yet we have no reliable way of finding information on SCP methods, trends, and progress. In pa…

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The Chair of Great Barrier Reef Foundation says “It’s absolutely not in our strategic view at the moment..” to lobby against new coal mines & land clearing - after being given $440 mill to save the Reef, which isn’t possible without stopping coal mining & land clearing.

Tim Stephens on Twitter “ Found it. Senate Inquiry, 30 July 2018 (p 44) https://t.co/4XA1K3Pa7W”