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A Webinar for the
by
Grégoire DUBOISSantiago SAURALucy BASTIN
http://nbsapforum.net/#read-thread/1672
20 July 2016
Assessing and Monitoring
Protected Areas
with the
Digital Observatory for Protected Areas (DOPA)
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Outline
1. What is the JRC?
2. Introduction to DOPA
3. Assessing Protected Areas: DOPA Explorer 1.0
4. Monitoring Protected Areas: Current developments on DOPA
5. Supporting protected areas: Who is doing what and where?
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European Commission (EC) = Executive Body of the European Union (EU) based in Brussels
Joint Research Centre (JRC) =In-house science service of the EC; provides independent scientific and technical support to EU policy
JRC established in 1957
Directorates spread over 5 countries with 3,000 staff (35% short-term)
Over 1,300 publications per year
What is the JRC?
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500m Euro from EU for biodiversity conservation in
Africa since 1985 EU B4LIFE Initiative2014-20: 850m Euro
• Global biodiversity loss affects the EU
• EU contributes to global biodiversity loss
• EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020:
Target 6 –“Help avert global biodiversity loss”
• EU and its Member States support biodiversity conservation in developing countries
Why does JRS work on global biodiversity issues?
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Why the ?
• Need for global reference information system to support decision making. Where are protected areas with highest biodiversity and exposed to highest threats? Which are the protected areas without financial support?
• Need for integrated information taking into account species, ecosystems, pressures, funding which need to be available at Country, Ecoregion and Protected Areas level.
• Need for free, open access services to develop web based tool for different end-users.
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What is the difference between WDPA (see www.protectedplanet.net) and DOPA?
% ecoregion protected?
GIS Analysis
WDPA
Ecoregions
% threatened endemics protected?
GIS Analysis
WDPA
Red List
Indicator AnalysisSource Data
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DOPA integrates critical biodiversity information produced by many actors.
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• DOPA recognized as support tool for NBSAP and PoWPA action planning and implementation (Decision XI/24 & Notification)
• DOPA is supporting:
- UNEP/IUCN Protected Planet Reports
- CBD Country dossiers for Targets 11 & 12
- CBD Regional workshops
DOPA and the CBD
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• DOPA Explorer 1.0 provides simple means to explore all protected areas ≥ 100 km2, identify those with most unique ecosystems and species composition and assess the pressures they are exposed to through human development.
• DOPA Explorer 1.0 is available in English, French Spanish and Portuguese.
• http://dopa.jrc.ec.europa.eu/explorer
Assessing protected areas with DOPA Explorer 1.0
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Country level statistics
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Protected Area level: Site characteristics
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Protected Area level: Assessment at country level
Each protected area is assessed (red line) according to species irreplaceability, habitat uniqueness and various pressures against the average country indicators (grey area)
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Protected Area level: Assessment at ecoregion level
Country Ecoregion
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Reference dispersal distance 10 km
0 10 50 100Planned format of the connectivity indicator to be
included in DOPA for end 2016 (DOPA Explorer 2.0)
Protected Area level: Assessment (DOPA Explorer 2.0)
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• Monitoring = repeated assessments! Earth Observations play an essential role
• DOPA Explorer 2.0 (release December 2016) will provide simple means to analyse long term changes in protected areas with a focus on land cover change.
Monitoring protected areas with DOPA
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1a) Land Cover change in Protected Areas
2000
2010
DOPA will be updated with ESA CCI Land Cover map
Forest loss
Surroundings of Parque Nacional de Gorongosa, Mozambique
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2a) Monitoring changes in surface water in Protected Areas
unchanged permanent water surfaces as of today: 387.1 km2
unchanged permanent water surfaces at start: 1,215.1 km2
loss of permanent water surfaces: 828.0 km2
gain of permanent water surfaces: 0.0 km2
% loss of permanent water surfaces: 68.0%
unchanged seasonal water surfaces as of today: 1.7 km2
unchanged seasonal water surfaces at start: 65.5 km2
loss of seasonal water surfaces: 63.8 km2
gain of seasonal water surfaces: 0.7 km2
% loss of seasonal water surfaces: 65.4 %
conversion of permanent to seasonal: 131.2 km2
conversion of seasonal to permanent: 0.0 km2
ephemeral permanent water 17.9 km2
ephemeral seasonal 67.5 km2
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• Using 30 years of Landsat data (2,362,654 scenes)
• Covers permanent, seasonal and ephemeral water
• Free and open data to be made available
• Products include:
• 30 year occurrence dataset
• 30 year seasonality dataset
• 30 year monthly dataset
• 30 year change dataset
• Useful for many applications:
• Water management
• Wetland / PA monitoring
• Coastal zone management
Pekel, J.F., Cottam A., Gorelick N., Belward A. (2016). The first high-resolution mapping of global surface water; 1984 – 2015. Submitted to Nature
2b) Monitoring changes in surface water in Protected Areas
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eConservationeConservation (Beta version online)
• Who is doing what and where? How much has been spent? Who are the main actors (focus on main donors)?
• Specific tool focusing on funding of biodiversity conservation activities
• ~ 5000 projects mapped,
• Beta tool, excellent feedback from UNDP, WorldBank, national agencies
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trilogy
1. Assessments and reporting
DOPA Reporter (2016): Release of new tool for COP13 Describing all PAs ≥ 50 km2 (~20 000 PAs) and update/addition of indicators (ecoregion, country, PA level) using WDPA June 2016.
2. Monitoring and validating assessments
Open DOPA (2017): data collection through standardized forms (threats, projects, infrastructure, species, …)
3. Predicting & forecasting changes in and outside protected areas
DOPA Analyst (2017, Beta): Advanced users, times series in PAs (fires, NDVI, water bodies, connectivity), interactive maps. Backed up by GEE and Copernicus Land Services
What is coming next!?