Thomas J. Beechey

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine a number of climate-related issues that now confront agencies and organizations responsible for the protection of natural heritage areas, including the roles of protected areas, representation targets, ecological integrity, protected area design, management techniques, research and monitoring needs, and agency capacity to respond.

TL;DR: In this article, a consensus-based approach was used to operationalize OEABCMs in the Canadian context and developed a decision-screening tool to assess sites for inclusion in Canada's Aichi Target 11 commitment.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore aspects of Canada's work on one of the few quantified targets (Target 11), which is intended to improve the status of biodiversity through protected areas (PAs) and a new type of designation, "other effective area-based conservation measures" (OECMs).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the results of a University of Waterloo and Canadian Council on Ecological Areas survey on the state of climate change adaptation in Canada's protected areas sector, including all federal, provincial, and territorial jurisdictions.

TL;DR: Aichi Biodiversity Target 19 calls on Parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) to improve, share, transfer, and apply knowledge as discussed by the authors, and provides an initial a...