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Global tracking of marine megafauna space use reveals how to achieve conservation targets

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Science, Volume: 388, Issue: 6751, Pages: 1086 - 1097

Swansea University Author: Nicole Esteban Orcid Logo

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The recent Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) sets ambitious goals but no clear pathway for how zero loss of important biodiversity areas and halting human-induced extinction of threatened species will be achieved. We assembled a multi-taxa tracking dataset (11 million geopositions...

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Published in: Science
ISSN: 0036-8075 1095-9203
Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2025
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Abstract: The recent Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) sets ambitious goals but no clear pathway for how zero loss of important biodiversity areas and halting human-induced extinction of threatened species will be achieved. We assembled a multi-taxa tracking dataset (11 million geopositions from 15,845 tracked individuals across 121 species) to provide a global assessment of space use of highly mobile marine megafauna, showing that 63% of the area that they cover is used 80% of the time as important migratory corridors or residence areas. The GBF 30% threshold (Target 3) will be insufficient for marine megafauna’s effective conservation, leaving important areas exposed to major anthropogenic threats. Coupling area protection with mitigation strategies (e.g., fishing regulation, wildlife-traffic separation) will be essential to reach international goals and conserve biodiversity.
Item Description: Peer-reviewed author accepted version available from https://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/handle/10023/32314
College: Faculty of Science and Engineering
Issue: 6751
Start Page: 1086
End Page: 1097