Ramsar Wetlands of International Importance–Improving Conservation Outcomes
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چکیده
The Ramsar Convention (or the on Wetlands), signed in 1971, was one of first international conservation agreements, promoting global wise use wetlands. It has three primary objectives: national designation and management wetlands importance; general wetlands; cooperation. We examined lessons learnt for improving wetland after Ramsar’s nearly five decades operation. number Site Network grown over time (2,391 Sites, 2.5 million km 2 , as at 2020-06-09) but unevenly around world, with decreasing rate growth recent decades. Sites are concentrated countries a high Gross Domestic Product human pressure (e.g., western Europe) but, contrast, largest extent central-west Africa South America. identified key challenges effectiveness Network: increasing sites area, improved representation (functional, geographical biological); effective reporting. Increasing area network could benefit from targets, implemented scales. Knowledge representativeness is inadequate, requiring analyses functional ecotypes, biological representativeness. Finally, most have inadequate planning reporting ecological character their more focused attention vision objectives, regular indicators to guide management. There opportunities rigorously track character, utilizing new tools available remote sensing). critical that world protect its wetlands, an or Wetlands core.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Environmental Science
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['2296-665X']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2021.643367