. Carbon Storage in Protected Areas – Technical Report. at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of Parties in Bali, December 2007. They also host very different ecosystems, cultures and political contexts. The maps for protected area coverage and carbon storage (Figure 10) combined with conservation priorities in Tanzania (Figure 11) suggest that there is a large area of unprotected land that is both high in carbon value and a priority for conservation. This is also the case in Papua New Guinea (Figure 12, Figure 13). It should be noted that priority setting schemes often u
. Carbon Storage in Protected Areas – Technical Report. at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of Parties in Bali, December 2007. They also host very different ecosystems, cultures and political contexts. The maps for protected area coverage and carbon storage (Figure 10) combined with conservation priorities in Tanzania (Figure 11) suggest that there is a large area of unprotected land that is both high in carbon value and a priority for conservation. This is also the case in Papua New Guinea (Figure 12, Figure 13). It should be noted that priority setting schemes often use the lack of protected areas as an indicator of threat, so high priority areas may appear to be situated outside of the protected area network as an artefact of this. Regardless, such mapping allows for identification of areas that should be focused on in future conservation strategies if the aim is to prevent carbon emissions whilst conserving biodiversity. These maps serve to demonstrate the relatively simple nature of combining carbon and biodiversity data to set conservation priorities, and should be viewed more as a tool for demonstration in priority setting workshops rather than as a tool for priority- setting at a national level per se. Ideally, more accurate and context specific national data should be used for the setting of national priorities, as these might differ from those that would be determined on a global scale, and could correspond to the land use pressures acting in that Figure 10: Protected areas and carbon storage, Tanzania. Protected area data includes all sites stored within the WDPA, including forest reserves. 24. 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 Campbell, A. , Miles. L. , Lysenko, I. , Hughes, A. , Gibbs, H. , UNEP-WCMC. UNEP-WCMC
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