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Connectivity between
protected areas as an
adaptation strategy for
biodiversity conservation
An Cliquet - Ghent University
Kris Decleer – Research Institute for Nature and Forest
Overview
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Adaptation to climate
change
There is a need to:
Strengthen the adaptability of
ecosystems to (natural) changes and
facilitate species migrating to other
areas
Adapting the ‘landscape approach’
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Adaptation to climate
change
More specifically through:
Making core protected areas more
robust
Taking restoration measures
Taking measures outside protected
areas (buffering…)
Taking connectivity measures to
enable species migration
Connectivity
Definition IUCN:
The maintenance and restoration of
ecosystem integrity requires landscape-
scale conservation. This can be achieved
through systems of core protected areas that
are functionally linked and buffered in ways
that maintain ecosystem processes and
allow species to survive and move, thus
ensuring that populations are viable and that
ecosystems and people are able to adapt to
land transformation and change.
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Connectivity
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Difficulties on connectivity
Connectivity in law
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Connectivity in international
law
Protection of corridors and flyways
(e.g. Ramsar Convention…)
Convention on Biodiversity
Convention: obligation for ‘system of
protected areas’
COP decisions on connectivity
• Programme of work on protected areas
(COP 7, 2004)
Technical guidance reports
Lack of specific legal obligations
Connectivity in EU law
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Connectivity in EU law
Connectivity in EU policy
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Connectivity in EU policy
Studies on:
Need for integration in other policy
sectors
Guidance on ecological connectivity
Flanders:
Flemish Ecological Network (Nature
Decree): interlinking corridor areas:
• No surface area target; no clear
ecological objectives; lack of legal binding
measures for stakeholders
• Result: some measures for small
landscape elements, but lack of
coherence; no robust corridors;
unsufficient bufferzones along
waterways,…
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