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Working landscapes are landscapes used for farming, ranching and/or forestry. Recently, these have become the focus of efforts to conserve biodiversity, as these now cover more than 80% of Earth's land, and therefore offer increasing opportunities for conservation and restoration. Though some parts of these landscapes may be used so intensively that they may be unable to sustain native species, working landscapes generally also include significant areas of habitats suitable for native species within their diverse and multifunctional mosaics of intensively used, fallow, and regenerating areas.
Working landscapes are landscapes used for farming, ranching and/or forestry. Recently, these have become the focus of efforts to conserve biodiversity, as these now cover more than 80% of Earth's land, and therefore offer increasing opportunities for conservation and restoration. Though some parts of these landscapes may be used so intensively that they may be unable to sustain native species, working landscapes generally also include significant areas of habitats suitable for native species within their diverse and multifunctional mosaics of intensively used, fallow, and regenerating areas.
Working landscapes are critical to sustain biodiversity
Conventionalprotected area
Protected areas or conservation areas are locations which receive protection because of their recognized natural or cultural values. Protected areas are those areas in which human presence or the exploitation of natural resources (e.g. firewood ...
s can offer high quality habitats with strong protections for native species, but their total global extent will always be limited. As landscapes without human inhabitation and use are already rare and only getting rarer, conservation in working landscapes has become increasingly critical to the future of biodiversity. For example, the conservation of 20% of working landscape area for native habitats has been proposed as a global conservation target, and is only one among many strategies for conservation beyond protected areas that falls under the rubric of Other effective area-based conservation measures
Other effective area-based conservation measures (OECMs) are sites outside of protected areas that are governed and managed in ways that deliver the long-term In-situ conservation, ''in situ'' conservation of biodiversity. As of March 2023, 856 suc ...
. Satellite mapping has been increasingly deployed to monitor how human activities modify working landscapes over time across extensive regions.
See also
*Landscape Ecology
Landscape ecology is the science of studying and improving relationships between ecological processes in the environment and particular ecosystems. This is done within a variety of landscape scales, development spatial patterns, and organizatio ...
* Land use
Land use is an umbrella term to describe what happens on a parcel of land. It concerns the benefits derived from using the land, and also the land management actions that humans carry out there. The following categories are used for land use: fo ...
* Landscape-scale conservation
Landscape-scale conservation is a holistic approach to landscape management, aiming to reconcile the competing objectives of nature conservation and economic activities across a given landscape. Landscape-scale conservation may sometimes be attemp ...
* Multifunctional landscape
Multifunctional landscapes are composed of lands used for multiple different purposes, including agriculture, forestry, settlements, recreation, conservation and restoration. With different parts of the landscape sustaining people and other specie ...
* Anthropogenic biome
Anthropogenic biomes, also known as anthromes, human biomes or intensive land-use biomes, describe the terrestrial biosphere in its contemporary, human-altered form using global ecosystem units (biomes) defined by global patterns of sustained direc ...
References
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