Time: 16:30-18:00(Beijing time) 

Date: June 6， 2023 (Tuesday) 

Venue: ZOOM ID 312 430 8960   PWD： 666666 

Online Panel: Growing disparity in global conservation research capacity and its impact on biodiversity conservation 

Growing disparity in global conservation research capacity and its impact on biodiversity conservation

 Tuesday 4 July 2023
London 09:30-11:00 / Berlin 10:30-12:00 / New Delhi 14:00-15:30/ Beijing 16:30-18:00 

Venue: Zoom Conference Platform (ID: 312 430 8960, PWD: 666666) 

Discussion summary

Building conservation research capacity (CRC), especially in developing countries, has been proposed to halt and reverse biodiversity loss. Yet, a global evaluation of CRC and its impact on biodiversity conservation is lacking. We analyze over 177,000 scientific papers from major conservation journals published after 2000, we derived six indicators of CRC and monitored their changes for the 193 United Nations member countries. We found that while CRC expectedly varied globally, the disparity in CRC between the top and bottom echelons grew over time. While most CRC indicators improved biodiversity conservation status (i.e., the IUCN Red List Index) in high-CRC countries, only the number of collaborating countries had a positive impact for low-CRC countries. Therefore, building CRC must be a top conservation priority, and high-CRC countries must lend greater support for low-CRC countries through meaningful collaborations and funding truly collaborative research in low-CRC developing countries. 

Speaker 

Tien Ming Lee Professor at Sun Yat-sen University, China  Tien Ming Lee is a Professor at the School of Ecology at Sun Yat-sen University since 2017, where he is also a PI at the State Key Lab of Biological Control. He has published over 80 SCI papers in journals such as Nature, Science, Nature Climate Change, Nature Sustainability, Nature Ecology and Evolution, One Earth and others. He is also on the editorial board of journals such as Journal of Applied Ecology, Conservation Biology, Conservation Letters, PLoS Biology and PLoS Sustainability and Transformation. He is interested in issues related to conservation science, socioecological systems, climate change, global change, sustainable resource management, sustainable consumption and low-carbon lifestyle.

 

 

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