Delivering Systematic and Repeatable Area-Based Conservation Assessments: From Global to Local Scales

• DOI: 10.20944/preprints202408.1146.v1
• Publication Date: 2024-08-19T00:43:15Z
• Authors: Diego Juffe-Bignoli; Andrea Mandrici; Giacomo Delli; Aidin Niamir; Grégoire Dubois
• Keywords: European commission

Protected and conserved areas are a key area-based strategy to address the biodiversity climate change crises. Fundamental understand their performance over time indicators. The Digital Observatory for Areas (DOPA) was born in 2013 as set of open access web services applications be used assess, monitor, report on protected areas. For decade it has delivered 50 indicators support policy processes, national regional governments, practitioners. DOPA also developed versatile efficient back-end approach that is widely applicable other conservation contexts. Here, we describe methods workflows behind DOPA´s back end provide examples relevant questions can answer. We discuss advantages limitations this systematic replicable explore use architecture inform progress targets following decades. This approach, embedded multiple provided by Knowledge Centre Biodiversity European Commission (KCBD), implementation monitoring Kunming Montreal Global Framework at international, regional, levels.