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Harry Jonas
Researcher at International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
Publications - 27
Citations - 1667
Harry Jonas is an academic researcher from International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. The author has contributed to research in topics: Convention on Biological Diversity & Indigenous. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 27 publications receiving 840 citations.
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A spatial overview of the global importance of Indigenous lands for conservation
Stephen T. Garnett,Neil D. Burgess,Neil D. Burgess,Julia E. Fa,Julia E. Fa,Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares,Zsolt Molnár,Catherine Robinson,Catherine Robinson,James E. M. Watson,James E. M. Watson,Kerstin K. Zander,Beau J. Austin,Eduardo S. Brondizio,Neil Collier,Tom Duncan,Erle C. Ellis,Hayley M. Geyle,Micha V. Jackson,Micha V. Jackson,Harry Jonas,Pernilla Malmer,Ben McGowan,Amphone Sivongxay,Ian Leiper +24 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used publicly available geospatial resources to show that Indigenous Peoples manage or have tenure rights over at least 38 million km2 in 87 countries or politically distinct areas on all inhabited continents.
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Area-based conservation in the twenty-first century
Sean L. Maxwell,Victor Cazalis,Nigel Dudley,Michael R. Hoffmann,Ana S. L. Rodrigues,Sue Stolton,Piero Visconti,Piero Visconti,Piero Visconti,Stephen Woodley,Naomi Kingston,Edward Lewis,Martine Maron,Bernardo B. N. Strassburg,Bernardo B. N. Strassburg,Bernardo B. N. Strassburg,Amelia S. Wenger,Amelia S. Wenger,Harry Jonas,Oscar Venter,James E. M. Watson,James E. M. Watson +21 more
TL;DR: To be more successful after 2020, area-based conservation must contribute more effectively to meeting global biodiversity goals-ranging from preventing extinctions to retaining the most-intact ecosystems-and must better collaborate with the many Indigenous peoples, community groups and private initiatives that are central to the successful conservation of biodiversity.
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Importance of Indigenous peoples' lands for the conservation of intact forest landscapes
Julia E. Fa,Julia E. Fa,James E. M. Watson,James E. M. Watson,Ian Leiper,Peter Potapov,Tom D. Evans,Neil D. Burgess,Neil D. Burgess,Zsolt Molnár,Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares,Tom Duncan,Stephanie Wang,Beau J. Austin,Harry Jonas,Catherine Robinson,Catherine Robinson,Pernilla Malmer,Kerstin K. Zander,Micha V. Jackson,Micha V. Jackson,Erle C. Ellis,Eduardo S. Brondizio,Stephen T. Garnett +23 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the importance of these areas for conserving the world's remaining intact forests and determined that at least 36% of IFLs are within Indigenous Peoples' lands, making these areas crucial to the mitigation action needed to avoid catastrophic climate change.
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Editorial essay: Covid-19 and protected and conserved areas
Marc Hockings,Nigel Dudley,Wendy Elliott,Mariana Napolitano Ferreira,Kathy MacKinnon,M. K. S. Pasha,Adrian Phillips,Sue Stolton,Stephen Woodley,Mike Appleton,Olivier Chassot,James A. Fitzsimons,Chris Galliers,Rachel E. Golden Kroner,John M. Goodrich,Jo Hopkins,W. J. Jackson,Harry Jonas,Barney Long,Musonda Mumba,Jeffrey Parrish,Midori Paxton,Carol Phua,Raina K. Plowright,Madhu Rao,Kent H. Redford,John G. Robinson,Carlos Manuel Rodriguez,Trevor Sandwith,Anna Spenceley,Candice M. D. Stevens,Gary M. Tabor,Sebasian Troëng,Sean Willmore,Angela Yang +34 more
TL;DR: The COVID-19 pandemic is having a dramatic impact on the global community; on people's lives and health, livelihoods, economies, and behaviours as mentioned in this paper, as well as impacts on the livelihoods of communities living in and around these areas.
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New steps of change: looking beyond protected areas to consider other effective area-based conservation measures
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that without clear guidance on the issue, conservation law and policy will continue to inappropriately and/or inadequately recognise the great diversity of forms of conservation and sustainable use of ecosystems and their constituent elements.