Native Plant Conservation Campaign News: New Study Confirms that Species Diversity is Greater Inside Protected Areas than Outside.
August 29, 2016
Recently NPCC News reported on a Federal study which measured the extensive economic and employment gains associated with National Parks. A new global study of terrestrial ecosystems has found that in addition to such economic and social benefits, protected areas effectively conserve terrestrial biological diversity as well.
The study found that protected areas supported significantly greater numbers of both species and individuals than unprotected areas.
Protected areas have long been considered essential for biodiversity conservation. However there has been some doubt over their success, with problems including lack of effective management, increasing pressures from recreation and other uses, and inadequate funding and government support.
According to the Guardian newspaper, this study is the first to demonstrate quantitatively that protected areas do in fact perform as expected in biological diversity conservation.
