From Red to Green: Synthesizing research to create a metric of species conservation success for multiple end-users (Open KE Fellowship)

从红色到绿色：综合研究为多个最终用户创建物种保护成功的指标（开放 KE 奖学金）

基本信息

批准号：
NE/R002614/1
负责人：
Molly Grace
金额：
$ 4.38万
依托单位：
University of Oxford
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Fellowship
财政年份：
2017
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2017 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FR002614%2F1
关键词：
Red Green Synthesizing research create

项目摘要

The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species plays a fundamental role in documenting and monitoring the status of biodiversity worldwide and is the respected "go-to" global repository of scientifically-accurate information on species. It is an invaluable guide for conservation practitioners around the world, and has also been used to help guide businesses in their plans for mitigating impacts on threatened species. The Red List is founded on NERC-funded research and reflects species' risk of extinction and collapse, as well as how this risk has changed over time. However, while a genuine improvement in extinction risk should be celebrated as a conservation success, it may only be a first step towards achievement of a more ambitious conservation goal. Therefore, an IUCN Green List of species has been proposed to document all dimensions of conservation success, including species function within the ecosystem, and incentivise conservation action towards full recovery and preventing future declines. The Green List will become part of the existing Red List, providing crucial new information within the well-established Red List framework. Once it has been thoroughly tested and refined through this proposed fellowship, the Green List will provide an easy-to-understand, scientifically sound scoring system that communicates how close a given species is to its conservation optimum, as well as how past conservation actions have contributed to species recovery and what the expected outcome will be if those conservation actions continue, change, or are stopped (counterfactual scenarios). The University of Oxford, which will host me during this fellowship, has been carrying out NERC-funded research on the role of species in ecosystem function and counterfactual approaches to assessing conservation success. I will translate these new scientific advances to create a Green Listing protocol in a form that is useful to stakeholders including governments, businesses, and NGOs. This will include: testing initial protocols on Green Listing on a wide variety of species and taxonomic groups in partnership with IUCN Species Specialist Groups; contributing to user guidelines for Green Listing of species; helping to adapt the protocol by incorporating feedback from testing, Specialist Groups and the IUCN Green List Task Force; and leading the preparation of communication materials and knowledge exchange products on the concept. The United Nations has declared 2011-2020 to be the "Decade on Biodiversity" and as such has identified many biodiversity targets that rely on an objective evaluation of species' conservation status. The Green List would provide the framework to evaluate conservation status in a scientifically sound, easily understood way. The Green List is an ambitious step forward in measuring conservation success, mirroring the ambitious and forward-thinking nature of the Decade on Biodiversity. The UK has long been on the forefront of conservation science and the British government has invested in conservation policy and actions with global impact. The Green List will follow in that tradition. This project, with its basis in best practice in conservation science and the goal of reaching conservation managers and policymakers worldwide, truly reflects NERC's vision "to place environmental science at the heart of responsible management of our planet". The opportunity to interact with other Knowledge Exchange Fellows, who bring expertise in the areas of business, policymaking, and more, will greatly increase the potential impact of the Green List by providing opportunities to share this work with end-users in the business and policy sectors as well as with those directly involved in on-the-ground conservation.

世界自然保护联盟受威胁物种红色名录在记录和监测全球生物多样性状况方面发挥着重要作用，是受人尊敬的“首选”全球物种科学准确信息存储库。它对于世界各地的保护从业者来说是一本宝贵的指南，也被用来帮助指导企业制定减轻对受威胁物种影响的计划。红色名录以 NERC 资助的研究为基础，反映了物种灭绝和崩溃的风险，以及这种风险如何随时间变化。然而，虽然灭绝风险的真正改善应该被视为保护的成功，但这可能只是实现更雄心勃勃的保护目标的第一步。因此，世界自然保护联盟提出了物种绿色名录，以记录保护成功的各个方面，包括生态系统内的物种功能，并激励保护行动，以实现全面恢复和防止未来的衰退。绿名单将成为现有红名单的一部分，在完善的红名单框架内提供重要的新信息。一旦通过拟议的研究金进行彻底测试和完善，绿色名录将提供一个易于理解、科学合理的评分系统，传达特定物种与其保护最佳状态的接近程度，以及过去的保护行动的效果如何。对物种恢复的贡献，以及如果这些保护行动继续、改变或停止（反事实情景），预期结果将会是什么。在本次奖学金期间接待我的牛津大学一直在开展 NERC 资助的研究，研究物种在生态系统功能中的作用以及评估保护成功的反事实方法。我将转化这些新的科学进步，以对政府、企业和非政府组织等利益相关者有用的形式创建绿色清单协议。这将包括：与 IUCN 物种专家组合作，测试各种物种和分类群的绿色名录初始协议；为物种绿色名录的用户指南做出贡献；通过纳入测试、专家组和 IUCN 绿名录工作组的反馈，帮助调整协议；并主导该概念的传播材料和知识交流产品的准备。联合国宣布2011-2020年为“生物多样性十年”，并因此确定了许多依赖于对物种保护状况的客观评估的生物多样性目标。绿色名录将以科学合理、易于理解的方式提供评估保护状况的框架。绿色名单是衡量保护成功的一个雄心勃勃的一步，反映了生物多样性十年雄心勃勃和前瞻性的本质。英国长期以来一直处于保护科学的前沿，英国政府投资于具有全球影响力的保护政策和行动。绿名单将遵循这一传统。该项目以保护科学的最佳实践为基础，目标是覆盖全球的保护管理者和政策制定者，真正体现了 NERC 的愿景“将环境科学置于地球负责任管理的核心”。与其他知识交流研究员互动的机会，他们带来了商业、政策制定等领域的专业知识，通过提供与商业和政策方面的最终用户分享这项工作的机会，将大大增加绿名单的潜在影响部门以及直接参与实地保护的部门。