In order to stem the rate of biodiversity loss, governments have committed to protect at least 17% of land and freshwater and 10% of our oceans by 2020, by adopting a Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 through the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Areas that are protected should be areas important for biodiversity and ecosystem services, in systems of effective, equitable and ecologically connected protected and conserved areas. This year, data suggests that we are close to conserving 15% of land, and 7% of the ocean. Yet, data about whether the sites are effectively managed, equitably governed and ecologically connected, is limited.
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