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every conceivable realm of the ecological and evolutionary sciences. Such collective energies, one would think, should hone, advantage, and ethically improve our
re-adaptation and system resilience know-how. Such methodologies include mainland island and island biogeographical invasive species understanding advances;
corresponding engineering breakthroughs; an avalanche of insights into biosemiotics, behavioral ecology and molecular biology; as well as important rapid advances
in field acquisition data technologies, such as improved UAVs (conservation drones)
and Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) that have been successfully
employed, for example, in so-called polygon-to-point deployments in analyzing and
monitoring protected areas and corridors.
4
In recent years, the most comprehensive initiative to provide transparent overviews of the collective efforts at eco-restoration is found in the World Database on
Protected Areas (WDPA),
5
a cooperative effort stemming from the United Nations
Environment Programme and the International Union for Conservation of Nature,
and launched online by Protected Planet.
6
Such research, stated goals, and mechanisms applied by all those, in every discipline, who care, are both a learning tool and
generally recognized work in progress, entailing an enormous catch-up if our species is to engage in anything approaching successful ecological redemption. This is
the case whether in reaching certain goals set by the Aichi Biodiversity Targets of
the Convention on Biological Diversity,
7
the 2030 UN Sustainability Development
Goals,
8
“core indicators” of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES),
9
the United Nations List of Protected
Areas, updated from 2014 to 2018, Protected Planet Report, 2018 (PPR)
10
and the
2018 analysis of the comparable effectiveness of management, according to numerous IUCN designated criteria, of those protected areas.
11
4 See “A Polygon and Point-Based Approach to Matching Geospatial Features,” by Juan J. RuizLendínez, Manuel A. Ureña-Cámara and Francisco J. Ariza-López, December 5, 2017, International
Journal of Geo-Information, https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/67f9/2b05d2c02b1f6eab9813d2fbeb
dbb8899478.pdf, Accessed February 21, 2020.
5 https://www.protectedplanet.net/c/world-database-on-protected-areas
6 https://www.protectedplanet.net.
7 https://www.cbd.int/sp/targets/
8 https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/?menu=1300
9 http://www.ipbes.net
10 See https://www.protectedplanet.net/c/united-nations-list-of-protected-areas/united-nations-listof-protected-areas-2018;
and
https://www.protectedplanet.net/c/protected-planet-reports/
report-2018, Accessed March 3, 2020.
11 See 2018 United Nations List of Protected Areas – Supplement on protected area management
effectiveness, United Nations Environment Programme (Eric Solheim, Executive Director) and
UNEP-WCMC (Director Neville Ash), UNEP-World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge,
UK 2018, in Collaboration with the CBD (Executive Secretary, Cristiana Pasca Palmer), the IUCN
(Director General, Inger Andersen), the WCPA (World Commission On Protected Areas, Chaired
by Kathy MacKinnon) and UN environment, Editors: Marine Deguignet, Heather C. Bingham,
Neil D. Burgess and Naomi Kingston, https://wdpa.s3.amazonaws.com/UN_List_2018/2018%20
List%20of%20Protected%20Areas_EN.pdf
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every conceivable realm of the ecological and evolutionary sciences. Such collective energies, one would think, should hone, advantage, and ethically improve our
re-adaptation and system resilience know-how. Such methodologies include mainland island and island biogeographical invasive species understanding advances;
corresponding engineering breakthroughs; an avalanche of insights into biosemiotics, behavioral ecology and molecular biology; as well as important rapid advances
in field acquisition data technologies, such as improved UAVs (conservation drones)
and Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) that have been successfully
employed, for example, in so-called polygon-to-point deployments in analyzing and
monitoring protected areas and corridors.
4
In recent years, the most comprehensive initiative to provide transparent overviews of the collective efforts at eco-restoration is found in the World Database on
Protected Areas (WDPA),
5
a cooperative effort stemming from the United Nations
Environment Programme and the International Union for Conservation of Nature,
and launched online by Protected Planet.
6
Such research, stated goals, and mechanisms applied by all those, in every discipline, who care, are both a learning tool and
generally recognized work in progress, entailing an enormous catch-up if our species is to engage in anything approaching successful ecological redemption. This is
the case whether in reaching certain goals set by the Aichi Biodiversity Targets of
the Convention on Biological Diversity,
7
the 2030 UN Sustainability Development
Goals,
8
“core indicators” of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES),
9
the United Nations List of Protected
Areas, updated from 2014 to 2018, Protected Planet Report, 2018 (PPR)
10
and the
2018 analysis of the comparable effectiveness of management, according to numerous IUCN designated criteria, of those protected areas.
11
4 See “A Polygon and Point-Based Approach to Matching Geospatial Features,” by Juan J. RuizLendínez, Manuel A. Ureña-Cámara and Francisco J. Ariza-López, December 5, 2017, International
Journal of Geo-Information, https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/67f9/2b05d2c02b1f6eab9813d2fbeb
dbb8899478.pdf, Accessed February 21, 2020.
5 https://www.protectedplanet.net/c/world-database-on-protected-areas
6 https://www.protectedplanet.net.
7 https://www.cbd.int/sp/targets/
8 https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/?menu=1300
9 http://www.ipbes.net
10 See https://www.protectedplanet.net/c/united-nations-list-of-protected-areas/united-nations-listof-protected-areas-2018;
and
https://www.protectedplanet.net/c/protected-planet-reports/
report-2018, Accessed March 3, 2020.
11 See 2018 United Nations List of Protected Areas – Supplement on protected area management
effectiveness, United Nations Environment Programme (Eric Solheim, Executive Director) and
UNEP-WCMC (Director Neville Ash), UNEP-World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge,
UK 2018, in Collaboration with the CBD (Executive Secretary, Cristiana Pasca Palmer), the IUCN
(Director General, Inger Andersen), the WCPA (World Commission On Protected Areas, Chaired
by Kathy MacKinnon) and UN environment, Editors: Marine Deguignet, Heather C. Bingham,
Neil D. Burgess and Naomi Kingston, https://wdpa.s3.amazonaws.com/UN_List_2018/2018%20
List%20of%20Protected%20Areas_EN.pdf
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