KBA meeting, Washington DC, July 2006 How much does the KBA process cost? Estimatives for the Brazilian KBA CI-Brazil

KBA meeting, Washington DC, July 2006

How much does the KBA process cost?

Estimatives for the Brazilian KBA

CI-Brazil


Costs involved

• Planning process (data gathering, data collection)

• Creation of protected areas• Support of existing protected areas• Implementation• Maintenance (monitoring, research)


Costs involved

• Atlantic Forest– Data gathering initiated in 2001– 19 projects supported (US$ 527,000) (CBC, CEPF)

– Partial time of 3 employees

• Cerrado-Pantanal– Data gathering initiated in 2002– 48 projects supported (US$ 687,000) (CBC)

– Partial time of 3 employees (until 2004)– Additional employee (from 2005)


Costs involved

• Amazonia– Data gathering initiated in 2001– 16 projects supported (US$ 473,000) (CBC, CEPF)


• Marine Program– Data gathering initiated on 2002– 13 projects supported (US$ 107,000) (CBC)



Summary

• US$ 1,7 millions (partners)

• Average of US$ 283 k/year (all regional programs)

• Activities involved:– Data gathering– Field surveys– Infra-structure for partners– Grants (research and scholarship)– Publications

• US$ 477 k (salaries)

• Total: US$ 2.1 millions


Playing with numbers (KBA costs)

KBARegional Program

Unprotected

Protected

Amazon 220 72

Cerrado-Pantanal 170 55

Atlantic Forest 478 77

TOTAL 868 204 1072

80%

20%

Private reserve

Public reserve

Type # Creation Implementation Management Total

Private 591 9k 15k 50k 43.749k

Public 148 15k 50k 100k 24.387k

Total 7.538k 16.258k 44.340k 68.136k


Investments for the next 4 years

(only in Brazil)

• US$ 17,4 millions per year• 268 areas per year• Total area can be close to 16

millions hectares


Definition of priorities is necessary

• Combination of irreplaceability and vulnerability

• Conservation status is not the best surrogate for vulnerability

• Ex.: same species, same conservation status, different pressures on its habitat in different regions

• Human pressure on natural ecosystem can indicate its vulnerability


Definition of priorities

• Vulnerability:– Integration of variables that represents human

pressure (roads, fire, human population, population growing) attenuated by conservation opportunities (natural fragments, proximity to existing PA)

• Irreplaceability:– Metric that combines rarity and richness (summed

irreplaceability)


Distance from RoadsFuzzy analysis


Fire frequency2001 - 2004


Human populationInterpolation


Human growth rateInterpolation


Natural vegetation remainingMODIS 13q - 2004


Distance from PA (IUCN I-III)Fuzzy analysis


Distance from PA (IUCN IV)Fuzzy analysis


Distance from PA (IUCN V)Fuzzy analysis


Data IntegrationMultiple Criteria Evaluation

fires0.4891

roads0.3285

population0.0579

Growing rate0.0579

IUCN I-III0.2860

Renmants0.4165

IUCN IV0.2016

IUCN V0.0960


Final balanceConservation ‘effort’


KBA Priorities


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Priorities for Cerrado-Pantanal

Lines shows average values for each abscissa

21 sites


TargetsTargetsPenelope ochrogasterPenelope ochrogasterSporophila nigrorufaSporophila nigrorufaSporophila palustrisSporophila palustrisAnodorhynchus hyacinthinusAnodorhynchus hyacinthinus



Preliminary delineationPreliminary delineation


KBA candidateKBA candidate


Issues

• Prioritization is necessary • The process must be oriented by efficiency

(cost/benefit)• Data on species biology/ecology are

necessary for most of the taxa• Integration of biodiversity data and landscape

is necessary. Two steps:– reserve selection (KBA priorization)– reserve design (KBA delineation)


Documents

KBA meeting, Washington DC, July 2006 How much does the KBA process cost? Estimatives for the Brazilian KBA CI-Brazil