Workshop: Implementing Bold Global Conservation Targets

Protected and conserved areas are the backbone of area-based conservation, the key strategy to halt biodiversity loss. Most biodiversity loss is being driven by habitat loss and fragmentation, and over-harvest, factors that can be managed by effective protected and conserved areas. This session examines 1) the need to large scale conservation targets; 2) how large-scale conservation can be implemented in different conditions of the world; 3) how “bending the curve” conservation strategies can be implemented in difference global conditions; and then concludes with 4) a global panel of experiences in implementing ambitions global targets. The panel includes perspectives from all regions of the world and a range of different ecosystems.