Fig. 3: Overlap betweenmining and biodiversity conservation among critical, other and both mining areas.
From: Renewable energy production will exacerbate mining threats to biodiversity
Bars depict the areal proportion of critical, other, and both mining areas that overlap with currently Protected Areas (panel a) and conservation priorities (Key Biodiversity Areas [panel b] and Remaining Wilderness [panel c]). Mining areas were mapped using a 50-cell radius around known mining properties, separated into those that are listed as being in pre-operational, operational, and closed phases. Stars denote significance differences (*p < 0.05, ***p < 0.0001) among areas targeting different commodity types (critical, other, and both) within a mining phase (pre-operational, operational, and closed). Results hold when defining mining areas using a 10-cell radius around mining properties and when sampling at 300 km intervals. Note: Graphed proportions were calculated from full extent of mining and non-mining areas, whereas reported statistics were calculated using the 1 km2 cells sampled at 100-cell intervals.
