I was happy to share some thoughts on biodiversity, climate change and conservation planning to the representatives of the environmental ministries of CPLP (referring to the "Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries"). My presentation starts at . . . [ Read More ]
Miguel B. Araújo leads group to support Ministry of Environment
Miguel Bastos Araújo was charged by the Minister for the Environment and Climatic Action with the mission of leading a group of 5 scientists that will prepare strategic policy biodiversity documents to support the Portuguese Government through the EU Council Presidency between January and June 2021, the Portuguese position in the COP15 on biodiversity, and the Portuguese internal strategy . . . [ Read More ]
Standards for distribution models in biodiversity assessments
https://youtu.be/iS31WaKMW_Y Would you have your cancer treatment be defined by one doctor supported by the opinion of two additional referees? Surely, you would hope the treatment to follow best practice standards reached by consensus among several doctors working in the field. Surprisingly, no such standards exist in models entering biodiversity assessments, but we now provide such . . . [ Read More ]
Arrábida workshop – Conservation Planning for the 21st Century
Early in the 2000s, Conservation International (through Lee Hannah) organized a series of workshops to discuss the interface between climate change and quantitative spatial conservation prioritisation methodologies. More than 10 years have elapsed since these workshops took place in Montpellier, Évora, and Cape Town and several highly-cited papers were published as a consequence (e.g., Araújo et . . . [ Read More ]