Module 12 - Chapter 10 Protected Areas Entire

Why is this necessary?

  • Most protected areas are too small to completely protect any species fully.

  • Most species do not obey manmade boundaries and freely move in and out of our PA for resources.

  • Migration is important for many animals, so they move to find mates, warmth, breeding sites, food, water, etc. 

  • Often, the smaller the PA, the more dependent it is on the outside protected areas.

Reconciliation ecology - finding ways to protect biodiversity in human-dominated landscapes

  • Enhancing parks

  • Green roofs 

  • Pollinator plantings under solar arrays 

  • Natives used in suburban yards

Many species are found mostly outside of PA boundaries.

  • Florida Panther - Found in both public and private lands

  • Only 30% is on protected land

  • They have recovered from 20-120 individuals

Unexpected places for large tracts of habitat.

  • Military lands: 25 million ha total land

  • 80% has active conservation management plans

  • Some species benefit from disturbance

  • US Fish and Wildlife Service spent 1.2 billion on their lands to protect endangered species from 1991-2015

  • Army Ornithological Society Ascension seabird conservation project soldier naturalist. 

  • Buffer zones between conflicts often have fewer people and thus fewer human disturbances 

    • DMZ in Korea.

Forest - Protected Land

  • The ridges in Door County, Wisconsin

    • The Ridges Sanctuary is a 1,6000 acre nature preserve and land trust in Baileys Harbor, Wisconsin.