Armed conflict and biodiversity in sub-saharan africa: the case of the democratic republic of congo10/10/2023 ![]() ![]() We found that considering mining and armed conflict threats to biodiversity independently rather than simultaneously results in 13 800–14 800 km 2 and 15 700–25 100 km 2 of potential missed conservation opportunities when undertaking threat-avoiding and threat-targeting management strategies, respectively. We found that a strategy that avoids addressing threats of mining and armed conflict more often misses important opportunities for biodiversity conservation, compared to a strategy that targets action towards areas under threat (assuming a biodiversity benefit is possible). We apply our approach to the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and identify priority areas for conserving biodiversity and carbon sequestration services. ![]() specifically target actions towards them, first individually and then simultaneously to assess the impact of their inclusion in spatial prioritisations. We evaluate three management strategies to address these more uncertain threats: 1. ![]() Here, we use a spatial prioritisation analysis to evaluate the consequences of considering only relatively well-mapped threats to biodiversity and compare this with planning scenarios that also account for more uncertain threats (in this case mining and armed conflict) under different management strategies. ![]() Many threats to biodiversity can be predicted and are well mapped but others are uncertain in their extent, impact on biodiversity, and ability for conservation efforts to address, making them more difficult to account for in spatial conservation planning efforts, and as a result, they are often ignored. ![]()
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