EU's Conservation Efforts Need More Strategic Investment to Meet Continental Commitments

The European Union (EU) has made significant conservation efforts in the last two decades, guided by the Birds and Habitats Directives, currently under evaluation. Despite these efforts a large proportion of priority species are still in unfavorable condition and continue declining. For this reason,...

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Autores: Hermoso, Virgilio, Clavero, Miguel, Villero, Daniel, Brotons, Lluís
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
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Palabra clave:Habitats directive
LIFE-Nature
REFIT.
Conservation policies
Birds Directive
Conservation investment
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spelling EU's Conservation Efforts Need More Strategic Investment to Meet Continental CommitmentsHermoso, VirgilioClavero, MiguelVillero, DanielBrotons, LluísHabitats directiveLIFE-NatureREFIT.Conservation policiesBirds DirectiveConservation investmentThe European Union (EU) has made significant conservation efforts in the last two decades, guided by the Birds and Habitats Directives, currently under evaluation. Despite these efforts a large proportion of priority species are still in unfavorable condition and continue declining. For this reason, a thoughtful review of the implementation of conservation efforts in Europe is needed to identify potential causes behind this poor effectiveness. We compiled information on the distribution of all conservation funds under the LIFE-Nature, the main financial tool for conservation in Europe. We found that LIFE-Nature has not adequately covered continental conservation needs. The majority of funds have been directed toward nonthreatened species or regions of low conservation priority. Given the limited resources available, two key aspects are in urgent need for revision and improvement. First, the distribution of funds should be guided by continental and global conservation needs and planned at the EU scale. Second, new mechanisms are required to set conservation priorities in a dynamic fashion, rather than relying on fixed lists (i.e., the Directives’ Annexes) that may rapidly become outdated. These improvements would require new mechanisms to set priorities and redistribution of conservation efforts, supported by adequate policy and a more effective top-down control on investment.Peer ReviewedWiley-Blackwell2017201720172017info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501Publisher's versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://hdl.handle.net/10261/155712reponame:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSICinstname:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)Inglésinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:digital.csic.es:10261/1557122026-05-22T06:33:51Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv EU's Conservation Efforts Need More Strategic Investment to Meet Continental Commitments
title EU's Conservation Efforts Need More Strategic Investment to Meet Continental Commitments
spellingShingle EU's Conservation Efforts Need More Strategic Investment to Meet Continental Commitments
Hermoso, Virgilio
Habitats directive
LIFE-Nature
REFIT.
Conservation policies
Birds Directive
Conservation investment
title_short EU's Conservation Efforts Need More Strategic Investment to Meet Continental Commitments
title_full EU's Conservation Efforts Need More Strategic Investment to Meet Continental Commitments
title_fullStr EU's Conservation Efforts Need More Strategic Investment to Meet Continental Commitments
title_full_unstemmed EU's Conservation Efforts Need More Strategic Investment to Meet Continental Commitments
title_sort EU's Conservation Efforts Need More Strategic Investment to Meet Continental Commitments
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Hermoso, Virgilio
Clavero, Miguel
Villero, Daniel
Brotons, Lluís
author Hermoso, Virgilio
author_facet Hermoso, Virgilio
Clavero, Miguel
Villero, Daniel
Brotons, Lluís
author_role author
author2 Clavero, Miguel
Villero, Daniel
Brotons, Lluís
author2_role author
author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Habitats directive
LIFE-Nature
REFIT.
Conservation policies
Birds Directive
Conservation investment
topic Habitats directive
LIFE-Nature
REFIT.
Conservation policies
Birds Directive
Conservation investment
description The European Union (EU) has made significant conservation efforts in the last two decades, guided by the Birds and Habitats Directives, currently under evaluation. Despite these efforts a large proportion of priority species are still in unfavorable condition and continue declining. For this reason, a thoughtful review of the implementation of conservation efforts in Europe is needed to identify potential causes behind this poor effectiveness. We compiled information on the distribution of all conservation funds under the LIFE-Nature, the main financial tool for conservation in Europe. We found that LIFE-Nature has not adequately covered continental conservation needs. The majority of funds have been directed toward nonthreatened species or regions of low conservation priority. Given the limited resources available, two key aspects are in urgent need for revision and improvement. First, the distribution of funds should be guided by continental and global conservation needs and planned at the EU scale. Second, new mechanisms are required to set conservation priorities in a dynamic fashion, rather than relying on fixed lists (i.e., the Directives’ Annexes) that may rapidly become outdated. These improvements would require new mechanisms to set priorities and redistribution of conservation efforts, supported by adequate policy and a more effective top-down control on investment.
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