Communications Biology (Nov 2022)

Current trends suggest most Asian countries are unlikely to meet future biodiversity targets on protected areas

  • Mohammad S. Farhadinia,
  • Anthony Waldron,
  • Żaneta Kaszta,
  • Ehab Eid,
  • Alice Hughes,
  • Hüseyin Ambarlı,
  • Hadi Al- Hikmani,
  • Bayarbaatar Buuveibaatar,
  • Mariya A. Gritsina,
  • Iding Haidir,
  • Zafar-ul Islam,
  • Muhammad Kabir,
  • Gopal Khanal,
  • Maxim A. Koshkin,
  • Rahim Kulenbekov,
  • Zairbek Kubanychbekov,
  • Aishwarya Maheshwari,
  • Ugyen Penjor,
  • Hana Raza,
  • Tatjana Rosen,
  • Anna Yachmennikova,
  • Viatcheslav V. Rozhnov,
  • Nobuyuki Yamaguchi,
  • Paul J. Johnson,
  • David W. Macdonald

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-04061-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Asia is shown to be behind in meeting the Aichi Target 11 under the Convention on Biological Diversity and current trends indicate that 2030 targets are unlikely to be achieved with severe impact on biodiversity.