Figure 1: Correlations of risk estimate against conservation spending and biodiversity.
From: Factoring attitudes towards armed conflict risk into selection of protected areas for conservation
We found no correlation between national-level risk and total spending (a) or domestic spending (b) on conservation. Both total conservation spending (c) and domestic conservation spending (d) are correlated with national-scale biodiversity (calculated by summing the fraction of each species’ range present within a nation). High levels of national-scale biodiversity are correlated with high levels of national-scale conflict risk (e). At the scale of the 10-km2 planning units, we found a significant correlation between conflict risk and number of conservation features present in a planning unit, with high-conflict-risk planning units tending to contain many endangered mammals (f). Conservation spending estimates were acquired from a database compiled by Waldron et al.31. National-scale estimates of conflict risk were acquired from the Institute for Economics and Peace26. Data in a–e represent ranks, and data in f are the values for each planning unit and are shown in grey so the trend line is visible.
