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Download PreprintProtected areas (PAs) are under immense pressure to safeguard much of the world’s remaining biodiversity and can be strained by unpredicted events such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Understanding the extent of the pandemic’s effect on PA management, activities, and conservation outcomes is critical for recovery and future planning to buffer against these types of events. We use survey and focus group data to measure the perceived impact of the pandemic on Mexico’s PA network and outline the pathways that led to conservation outcomes. On average, across 62 PAs, we find substantial changes in management capacity, monitoring, and tourism, and a slight increase in non-compliant activities. Our findings highlight the need to integrate short-term relief plans to support communities dependent on tourism, who were particularly vulnerable during the pandemic, and to increase access to technology and technical capacity to better sustain management activities during future crises.
https://doi.org/10.32942/osf.io/vcs6r
Geography, Human Geography, Social and Behavioral Sciences
COVID-19 pandemic, Management capacity, Mexico, Non-compliance, Protected areas
Published: 2021-11-02 14:56
Last Updated: 2022-02-02 12:13
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