. Carbon and biodiversity. A demonstration atlas. Carbon and biodiversity Country profile Zambia Carbon tonnes/ha Low (0-1581 Medium 1158-251 930- High [251-551] High biodiversity (>1 overlapping priority] I | National protected areas. The land area of Zambia covers km:. and contains 15-6 GtC. The same global prioritisation schemes used for the regional maps are used to define high biodiversity in this case, with the addition of Important Bird Areas IIBAs; Birdlife International 2008b]. IBAs hold iarge numbers of globally threatened, restricted range, and migratory bird species and
. Carbon and biodiversity. A demonstration atlas. Carbon and biodiversity Country profile Zambia Carbon tonnes/ha Low (0-1581 Medium 1158-251 930- High [251-551] High biodiversity (>1 overlapping priority] I | National protected areas. The land area of Zambia covers km:. and contains 15-6 GtC. The same global prioritisation schemes used for the regional maps are used to define high biodiversity in this case, with the addition of Important Bird Areas IIBAs; Birdlife International 2008b]. IBAs hold iarge numbers of globally threatened, restricted range, and migratory bird species and are selected at the national scale using international criteria. Due to the low levels of overlap between global prioritisation schemes in Zambia, areas of high' biodiversity in this case are defined as any area in which two of the prioritisation schemes overlap. This illustrates the problems with scaling global data down to the national level. The diagram (right] illustrates the extent to which protected areas cover high carbon and high biodiversity areas. It shows that 29 per cent of the carbon in high carbon areas and 60 per cent of the carbon in high biodiversity land is protected. Of the carbon that is stored in areas high in both carbon and biodiversity, kl per cent is in protected areas. Carbon in protected areas 100 - IGtc lGIc High carbon land High biodiversity land High carbon and high biodiversity land 17. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Kapos, V. , Ravilious, C. , Campbell, A. , Dickson, B. , Gibbs, H. , Hansen, M. , Lysenko, I. , Miles, L. , Price, J. , Scharlemann, J. P. W. , Trumper, K. , UNEP-WCMC. UNEP-WCMC
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