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Practice Reading: Reading and Writing Fill in the Blanks ID: #51232 Protected Areas
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"Protected  areas  are  hugely  important  for  .  Over  the  last  20  years  there's  been  a  massive  growth  in  the  number  of  protected  areas,  both  in  the  marine  realm  and  the  terrestrial  realm."  James  Watson  with  the  Wildlife  Conservation  Society's  Global  Conservation  Program  and  the  University  of  Queensland.  "But  what  we're  noticing  is  that  these  protected  areas  aren't  well  placed.  They  don't  really  stop    loss  in  many  places,  because  they're  not  where  important  areas  of  biodiversity  is.  We  also  notice  that  protected  areas  aren't  well  managed  and  therefore  often  protected  areas  don't    lead  to  any  significant  conservation  outcome."  To  address  these  issues  Watson  and  colleagues  published  a  blueprint  describing  how  "the  scientific  community  can  actually  really  help  national  governments  and  protected  area    really  place  protected  areas  that  really    important  biodiversity  areas  and  achieve  ecological  representation."  Their  report  is  in  the  journal  Conservation  Biology.  "Protected  areas  aren't  the  only  tool  in  the  toolbox  and  we've  got  to  make  sure  that  other  efforts  actually  work  together  holistically  with  protected  areas.  So  scientists  can  help    metrics  that  help  allow  us  to  assess  this.  In  these  three  ways,  scientists  can  really  help  the  conservation  movement  ensure  that  the  protected  areas  are  in  the  right  place  and  managed  effectively  and  can  achieve  conservation  outcomes  in  the  long-term."

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