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Southeast Asian protected areas are effective in conserving forest cover and forest carbon stocks compared to unprotected areas

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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
卷 11, 期 1, 页码 -

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NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-03188-w

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  1. Australian Government RTP Scholarship
  2. Australian Government Marie Skodowska-Curie Program [676108]
  3. Villum Fonden [VKR023371]
  4. Marie Curie Actions (MSCA) [676108] Funding Source: Marie Curie Actions (MSCA)

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Protected areas in Southeast Asia showed three times less forest cover loss compared to similar landscapes without protection. Areas that completed management reporting using METT conserved more forest cover and forest carbon stocks. Management scores were positively correlated with carbon emissions avoided, highlighting the importance of scaling up management effectiveness reporting programs for better forest conservation and carbon storage.
Protected areas aim to conserve nature, ecosystem services, and cultural values; however, they have variable success in doing so under high development pressure. Southeast Asian protected areas faced the highest level of human pressure at the turn of the twenty-first century. To estimate their effectiveness in conserving forest cover and forest carbon stocks for 2000-2018, we used statistical matching methods to control for the non-random location of protected areas, to compare protection against a matched counterfactual. We found Southeast Asian protected areas had three times less forest cover loss than similar landscapes without protection. Protected areas that had completed management reporting using the Management Effectiveness Tracking Tool (METT) conserved significantly more forest cover and forest carbon stocks than those that had not. Management scores were positively associated with the level of carbon emissions avoided, but not the level of forest cover loss avoided. Our study is the first to find that METT scores could predict the level of carbon emissions avoided in protected areas. Given that only 11% of protected areas in Southeast Asia had completed METT surveys, our results illustrate the need to scale-up protected area management effectiveness reporting programs to improve their effectiveness for conserving forests, and for storing and sequestering carbon.

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