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| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1086-1097 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | Science |
| Volume | 388 |
| Issue number | 6751 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 5 Jun 2025 |
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In: Science, Vol. 388, No. 6751, 05.06.2025, p. 1086-1097.
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T1 - Global tracking of marine megafauna space use reveals how to achieve conservation targets
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N1 - Funding: D.W.S. acknowledges funding from ERC-2019-ADG 883583OCEAN DEOXYFISH and NERC NE/R00997X/1. V.M.E. acknowledges funding from MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 (PID2020-114324GB-C22). B.J.G. acknowledges the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Darwin Initiative. .C.H. acknowledges funds provided by NERC and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. M.A.C.N. acknowledges the petrel tracking program and Malcolm Nicollwere supported by NERC (grant NE/H5081500) with in situ support from MWF and NPCS. D.W.S. further acknowledges additionalfield research support provided by the Save Our Seas Foundation (grants 45, 87, 308) and theNERC Oceans 2025 Strategic Research Programme. Wanless wasfunded by the NERC Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. F.C.W. was funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) through a Universityof Southampton INSPIRE DTP Studentship. The project also received funding from theEuropean Union (Marie Curie grant nos. FP6 and FP7).
PY - 2025/6/5
Y1 - 2025/6/5
N2 - The recent Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) sets ambitious goals but no clear pathway for how zero loss of important biodiversity areas and halting human-induced extinction of threatened species will be achieved. We assembled a multi-taxa tracking dataset (11 million geopositions from 15,845 tracked individuals across 121 species) to provide a global assessment of space use of highly mobile marine megafauna, showing that 6300Target 3) will be insufficient for marine megafauna’s effective conservation, leaving important areas exposed to major anthropogenic threats. Coupling area protection with mitigation strategies (e.g., fishing regulation, wildlife-traffic separation) will be essential to reach international goals and conserve biodiversity. Many large marine animals are threatened with extinction. To address this problem, the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework has set a goal of protecting, conserving, and managing at least 30s oceans. However, the effectiveness of area-based conservation may be limited for highly mobile marine species, especially when there is limited understanding of the spatial and temporal dynamics of animal movement in the oceans. Sequeira et al. compiled tracking data from thousands of large marine vertebrates representing more than 100 species and identified important migratory corridors and areas where many species reside (see the Perspective by Gerber and Davis). Their findings show hotspots of movement and reveal that 30 particularly considering the distribution of threats to biodiversity. —Bianca Lopez
AB - The recent Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) sets ambitious goals but no clear pathway for how zero loss of important biodiversity areas and halting human-induced extinction of threatened species will be achieved. We assembled a multi-taxa tracking dataset (11 million geopositions from 15,845 tracked individuals across 121 species) to provide a global assessment of space use of highly mobile marine megafauna, showing that 6300Target 3) will be insufficient for marine megafauna’s effective conservation, leaving important areas exposed to major anthropogenic threats. Coupling area protection with mitigation strategies (e.g., fishing regulation, wildlife-traffic separation) will be essential to reach international goals and conserve biodiversity. Many large marine animals are threatened with extinction. To address this problem, the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework has set a goal of protecting, conserving, and managing at least 30s oceans. However, the effectiveness of area-based conservation may be limited for highly mobile marine species, especially when there is limited understanding of the spatial and temporal dynamics of animal movement in the oceans. Sequeira et al. compiled tracking data from thousands of large marine vertebrates representing more than 100 species and identified important migratory corridors and areas where many species reside (see the Perspective by Gerber and Davis). Their findings show hotspots of movement and reveal that 30 particularly considering the distribution of threats to biodiversity. —Bianca Lopez
U2 - 10.1126/science.adl0239
DO - 10.1126/science.adl0239
M3 - Article
SN - 0036-8075
VL - 388
SP - 1086
EP - 1097
JO - Science
JF - Science
IS - 6751
ER -