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Identifying global centers of unsustainable commercial harvesting of species
journal contribution
posted on 2023-05-20, 15:47 authored by Di Minin, E, Thomas BrooksThomas Brooks, Toivonen, T, Butchart, SHM, Heikinheimo, V, Watson, JEM, Burgess, ND, Challender, DWS, Goettsch, B, Jenkins, R, Moilanen, AOverexploitation is one of the main threats to biodiversity, but the intensity of this threat varies geographically. We identified global concentrations, on land and at sea, of 4543 species threatened by unsustainable commercial harvesting. Regions under high-intensity threat (based on accessibility on land and on fishing catch at sea) cover 4.3% of the land and 6.1% of the seas and contain 82% of all species threatened by unsustainable harvesting and >80% of the ranges of Critically Endangered species threatened by unsustainable harvesting. Currently, only 16% of these regions are covered by protected areas on land and just 6% at sea. Urgent actions are needed in these centers of unsustainable harvesting to ensure that use of species is sustainable and to prevent further species' extinctions.
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Publication title
Science AdvancesVolume
5Issue
4Article number
eaau2879Number
eaau2879Pagination
1-8ISSN
2375-2548Department/School
Institute for Marine and Antarctic StudiesPublisher
American Association for the Advancement of Science (A A A S)Place of publication
United StatesRights statement
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