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The World Heritage Convention and the Protection of Biodiversity Hotspots The World Heritage Convention and the Protection of Biodiversity Hotspots The Netherlands, Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality, Department of Knowledge, 2007 Foreword The Dutch Government fully supports the aims of the Convention on Biodiversity hotspots can be used as indications for the identification of Biological Diversity and the Programme of Protected Areas under the potential WHC-sites under criterion X. The natural sites, thus selected for the Convention of Biological Diversity, aiming at the protection of nature in the World Heritage List, are among the most important sites for the conservation world, counting up to a possible 10% of the worlds’ land-area’s. of biodiversity in the world. The World Heritage Convention (UNESCO) is a powerful instrument for the The aims of the Dutch Government for international nature protection as a protection of nature, with strong relations to the national protective contribution to the realisation of the aims of the Convention on Biological instruments. In a positive contrast with other global conventions, the World Diversity (CBD) are written down in the “International Policy Programme Heritage Convention provides a strong legally binding instrument for the Biodiversity 2002-2006”, and its’ follow up: the “International Policy protection of natural sites all over the world. From the analysis in this book Programme Biodiversity 2007-2011”. In these policy programmes, the it becomes clear that the protection regime of the WHC provides very good protection of (semi-)natural sites within systems of protected area’s is possibilities to protect global biodiversity. Important and positive aspects of identified as a very high priority. It is our opinion that the World Heritage the WHC-approach are: the WHC-regime is already protecting more then 160 Convention can play a crucial role in the future protection of natural sites natural sites; the protection regime and the selection of sites is widely and biodiversity hotspots all over the world. accepted; the protection regime covers not only core-areas but also buffer zones and -if needed- corridors, so the network of sites can provide resilience to the threats of climatic change; nominations are only accepted if Prof. Dr. Rick van der Ploeg there is local ownership and if there is a sound and realistic management Chairperson to the Delegation of the Netherlands to the World Heritage plan that is financially secured. Committee 2003-2007. Within the WHC, the concept of Outstanding Universal Value (OUV) is Mr. Giuseppe Raaphorst crucial. This concept of OUV is translated into ten operational criteria for the Director of Nature, Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality, the assessment of OUV, of which the criteria VII, VIII, IX and X are defined for Netherlands. the identification of natural sites. Contents 1 Introduction 2 Biodiversity-hotspots in the world · Alliance for Zero Extinction · Conservation International · World Wildlife Fund · Conclusions 3 Focus on Africa · Alliance for Zero Extinction- Key sites in Africa · Conservation International- Hotspots in Africa · World Wildlife Fund Global 200- Ecoregions in Africa · World Heritage Convention: Natural sites in Africa · World Heritage Convention: Natural sites on tentative lists in Africa · Conclusions 4 Synergies between the World Heritage Convention and biodiversity- hotspot-methodologies 5 General conclusions and perspectives Sources 1. Introduction This publication explores the possibilities for synergising the protection of Plantlife International coordinates several projects all over the world aiming biodiversity hotspots within the World Heritage Convention. at the identification of Important Plant Areas (IPA’s) and has identified in It starts with an exploration of some major biodiversity hotspot-methods. Central Eastern Europe about 1500 IPA’s, each holding a specific Having presented the results of three major hotspot-methods, possible constellation of rare and/or threatened plants. The Butterfly-Association- synergies with the WHC are identified. A specific focus is on Africa. Netherlands has identified in Europe 584 Prime Butterfly Areas, each holding Identified hotspots are compared with the natural sites on the tentative lists a specific constellation of rare and/or threatened butterflies. of State parties. Concentrating on initiatives that cover all taxonomic groups and that are This publication is no new scientific publication but it builds on the work of aiming at the identification of global hotspots, two other initiatives are also thousands of scientists. Texts and maps are merely adapted from websites important to be analysed in this publication: and databases. New is the way data are combined and brought to a The World Wildlife Fund has developed a system called the “Global 200 conclusion. Ecoregions”, the aim of which is to select priority Ecoregions for conservation within each of 14 terrestrial, 3 freshwater, and 4 marine habitat A biodiversity hotspot is a biogeographic region which is a significant types. They are chosen for their species richness, endemism, taxonomic reservoir of biodiversity which is threatened with destruction. uniqueness, unusual ecological or evolutionary phenomena, and global The concept of biodiversity hotspots is originally suggested by Myers in two rarity. articles in “The Environmentalist” (1988 & 1990), revised after thorough The “Alliance for Zero Extinction”, in which a large number of scientific analysis by Myers in “Hotspots: Earth’s Biologically Richest and Most organisations and conservation groups co-operate, focuses on the most Endangered Terrestrial Ecoregions” (1999), and again revised by Mittermeier threatened endemic species of the world and has as yet identified 595 in the book “Hotspots revisited” (2004). priority sites, incorporating for example a large number of Birdlife’s Important Bird Areas. To qualify as a Conservation International biodiversity hotspot, a region must meet two strict criteria: The three initiatives are all based on scientific criteria and quantitative it must contain at least 1,500 species of vascular plants as endemics, and it thresholds. Systematic problems of these hotspot approaches are that some has to have lost at least 70 percent of its original habitat. Around the world ecosystems and/or geographical regions are underrepresented. Examples are 34 areas are identified that each have lost at least 70% of their original deserts and the largely unexplored marine world. Kareiva & Marvier (2003) habitat that each still contain more than 1500 endemic vascular plant have argued that the biodiversity hotspots, thus defined, do not adequately species. These sites support nearly 60 percent of the world's plant, bird, represent other forms of species richness (e.g., total species richness or mammal, reptile, and amphibian species, with a very high share of endemic threatened species richness), and do not make allowances for changing land species. These sites are called “biodiversity hotspots”. use patterns. They argue that hotspots may represent regions that have experienced considerable habitat loss, but this does not mean they are The Conservation International Biodiversity Hotspot-approach is not the only experiencing ongoing habitat loss. On the other hand, regions that are approach for assessing global or regional conservation priorities. relatively intact (e.g., the Amazon Basin) have experienced relatively little BirdLife International has identified all over the world 218 Endemic Bird land loss, but are currently losing habitat at tremendous rates. Areas (EBA) each of which hold two or more bird species found nowhere The three organisations aiming at the identification of global biodiversity else. Birdlife International also identified more then 11.400 Important Bird hotspots and which methods and results are studied in this publication, are Areas all over the world. aware of these methodological problems. 2. Methods for the identification of biodiversity hotspots The following methods for the identification of biodiversity hotspots are studied: 3. Discreteness. The area must have a definable boundary within which the 1. Alliance for Zero-Extinction. character of habitats, biological communities, and/or management issues 2. Conservation International. have more in common with each other than they do with those in 3. WWF Global 200. adjacent areas. The thus identified hotspots are compared with natural sites protected under international conventions. Key-findings So far, 595 sites have been identified that must be safeguarded to prevent the extinction of 794 of the world’s most endangered birds, mammals, amphibians, reptiles and plants. Many sites have more than one AZE “trigger Alliance for Zero Extinction (AZE) species” confined to them. See also the map “Alliance for Zero Extinction: Key sites”. Introduction AZE scientists are working in collaboration with an international network of experts to identify sites that must be effectively protected to prevent the Conservation International extinction of the world’s most threatened species. To date, AZE has identified sites for those taxonomic groups that have been globally assessed for threat level: mammals, birds, some reptiles Introduction (crocodilians, iguanas, turtles, and tortoises), amphibians, and conifers. Myers in 1988 first identified ten tropical forest “hotspots” characterized Other taxa will be added as data become available. By drawing global both by exceptional levels of plant endemism and by serious levels
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