Area-based Conservation Planner (ABC)#
Description#
Prioritising conservation areas
Prioritising conservation areas involves selecting locations where protection efforts will have the greatest impact on biodiversity and ecosystem function while also considering cost-effectiveness and feasibility. This process involves assessing existing knowledge about biodiversity, threats, and other relevant factors and then using this information to identify and rank areas based on their conservation value.
Area-based Conservation Planner (ABC)
The MSP4BIO project achieved a significant milestone with the development and integration of a prioritisation tool into the PW4B platform, which is currently in a testing phase. The tool is named the Area-based Conservation Planner (ABC, https://gis.sea.ee/pw4b/prioritizer/workspaces_tabs). This tool leverages the capabilities of the R package ‘prioritizr’ (https://prioritizr.net/), which is adept at efficiently solving conservation planning problems. Prioritizr supports a wide range of objectives, constraints and penalties, allowing the customization of conservation planning solutions to meet the specific needs of a given conservation initiative. The systematic and evidence-based approach of these tools enhances the transparency, inclusiveness and defensibility of the conservation decision-making process.
Ecological toolkit (ESE1) for MPAs prioritization and networking. Deliverable – D3.4., under the WP3 of MSP4BIO project (GA n° 101060707).