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Observatories for Biodiversity and Protected Areas Management

Steve Peedell European Commission Joint Research Centre

Spatial Information, tools and approaches

• Digital Observatory of Protected Areas
• Internet-based information services in the Pacific
• Priority spatial data and analyses for the region
• Towards a Regional Reference Information System

Partners

Structure of the programme

• 1. The Protected

Areas Component

Result 1 – Improving the effective

planning and management of PAs by using the best available scientific and policy information

(JRC)

Result 2 – Establishing a “Centre

for PAs & Biodiversity” (Observatory) in each region and developing capacity building programmes

(IUCN)

• 2. The Access and

Benefit Sharing (ABS) component

(ABS Initiative)

Expected Results

Understanding ecology of PA’s and ecosystem services Understanding interactions between PA’s and local economy Improving PA management through better understanding

• f governance

Data, indicators, models, reports, tools Regional Reference Information System

JRC Internal Organisation

Ecosystem Services Terrestrial Ecosystems Monitoring Species and Habitats Pressures and Threats Marine Ecosystems Monitoring Management & Governance

Digital Observatory of Protected Areas BIOPAMA RRIS RRIS Deployment

Project Timeline & Milestones

★ ★ Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4

July 2011 JRC Feb 2012 IUCN

Year 5…..

Mar 2012 Inception WS Dec 2012 ESARO WS Jan/Feb 2013 Pacific, Caribbean, PACO WS DOPA Explorer Fire Tool ESP Mapping PIRTNC

2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

WPC Observatories & RRIS DOPA, ACP Observatory

Inception Elaboration Construction Transition

Key Principles

• Geography matters

– BIOPAMA RRIS is based on geospatial information

• Simplifying technology

– BIOPAMA RRIS aims to create simple, targeted web services

• Sharing, organising, coordinating

– Technology facilitates this, but these are primarily non- technical challenges – A lot of the BIOPAMA project is about orchestration

• Actionable information

– Not just information for its own sake – Basis for measurable targets

From theory to practice

• Requirements, stakeholder engagement

– Data needs questionnaire – Regional workshops, regional studies

• RRIS development

– Datasets – Digital Observatory of Protected Areas (DOPA) – RRIS Pilots

• Reports and publications

DOPA – Our Current Dashboard http://dopa.jrc.ec.europa.eu/explorer

DOPA opportunities, challenges and limitations

• Initial development on large terrestrial

ecosystems

• Not all significant biodiversity areas (currently

subset of WDPA)

• Rank and compare, assess pressure, status and

vulnerability

• Modular – can be extended as required
• Interoperable – basis for collaboration

– Orchestration of existing information

• Open source and internet based

PA Pressures and Threats - Key Achievements

• Database of land cover changes in sub-Saharan Africa

1990-2000-(2005)-2010

– Need to produce similar analysis for the Pacific

• Fire tool for PA’s
• Analysis of requirements for poaching / illegal

resource use tool

• Land degradation work at global scale

– Still too coarse for application in Pacific

PA Fire Monitoring

http://acpobservatory.jrc.ec.europa.eu/content/fire-monitoring

Fundamental Datasets – Global Marine Information System

http://gmis.jrc.ec.europa.eu

Web Services for Environmental Monitoring*

• Generated from the JRC

eStation

• 47 African countries
• Fire, temperature,

precipitation, vegetation, surface water

• Integration of fire web

service in SMART tool

* Currently Africa only, working on extension to Pacific and Caribbean. Fire is a global service.

Spatially enabling IBIS

Goal- develop IBIS as a primary source of invasive species management information and supporting countries make progress to achieve Aichi Target 9, 11, 12, 17 Aichi Target 9 - By 2020, invasive alien species and pathways are identified and prioritized, priority species are controlled or eradicated, and measures are in place to manage pathways to prevent their introduction and establishment. Aichi Target 11- By 2020, at least 17 per cent of terrestrial and inland water, and 10 per cent of coastal and marine areas, especially areas of particular importance for biodiversity and ecosystem services, are conserved through effectively and equitably managed, ecologically representative and well connected systems of protected areas and

• ther effective area-based conservation measures, and integrated into

the wider landscapes and seascapes. Aichi Target 12- By 2020 the extinction of known threatened species has been prevented and their conservation status, particularly of those most in decline, has been improved and sustained.

Island Biodiversity and Invasive Species Database IBIS

Summary

• Four countries- Timor Leste, Fiji, Cook Islands and Kiribati
• Close to 2000 native and endemic species featured
• Close to 1500 records of Invasive alien species documented
• n islands and sites where information was available
• Close to 150 recorded evidence of impacts documented
• Mammal predators biggest threat
• Paucity of information on impacts of invasive alien plants
• Big gaps in levels of biodiversity information availabity from

Timor Leste

Island Biodiversity and Invasive Species Database IBIS

Ecosystem Services

• DOPA Carbon Tool. Change of the

tool structure and function

• Design and development of the

Ecosystem Services Partnership visualisation tool

– www.esp-mapping.net

• Mapping of Carbon

sequestration in the Caribbean basin

PA Management & Governance - Key Achievements

• Close consultation with METT & PAME groups

– Queensland University, WCMC

• First draft PA “Identity Card”
• Scoping of pilot for Central African Region

Hadoop – Big Data for BIOPAMA

Communication

DIY

• The following services return information about species in countries, protected areas and

species irreplaceability values by country:

• http://dopa-services.jrc.ec.europa.eu/services/especies/get_country_species_list
• http://dopa-services.jrc.ec.europa.eu/services/especies/get_pa_species_list
• http://dopa-services.jrc.ec.europa.eu/services/especies/get_species_irreplacibility_country
• Spatial data services returning species richness maps available from http://lrm-

maps.jrc.ec.europa.eu/geoserver/

• DOPA REST Services Directory here
• Species list validator for Votua Village here
• Google Earth Engine Demo here
• Charismatic species gallery here
• Global tourism potential here

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Developing capacity for a Protected Planet www.iucn.org/biopama stephen.peedell@jrc.ec.europa.eu