Bruce Gall is a former director of the Queensland National Parks and Wildlife Service.
In 2014, during the World Parks Congress in Sydney, Greg Hunt, then environment minister, stated Australia had met its Aichi decade biodiversity target for area protected. However, a deeper dive into the data showed that Australia had failed – miserably – to meet the ‘ecosystem representativeness’ (habitat diversity) element of the target whose success minister Hunt was lauding.
Which is the more important to conserve – quantity (hectares) or quality (diversity)?
This is a crucial question as we move into the Kunming-Montreal decade. Initial results are suggesting a repeat of Aichi; a more strategic approach is needed. Read on.
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