BackgroundHuman population growth since the mid-1900s has been accompanied by an unsustainable use of natural resources and a corresponding impact on terrestrial and marine biota. In response, most states have established protected areas as tools to decrease biodiversity loss, being Chile one of the signatories of international conservation agreements such as the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the 2010 Aichi Targets. This study reviews the Chilean protected areas that have been created to date, with an emphasis on the existence and effectiveness of management plans for all terrestrial and marine protected areas.Effectiveness was individually evaluated using two filters: 1) the age of the management plan and 2) the first four steps of the Protected Areas Management Effectiveness (PAME) methodology recommended by the IUCN.ResultsWe show that 84 out of a total of 145 protected areas (PAs), and only five out of a total of 20 marine protected areas (MPAs), have management plans. Only 12% (N = 16) of PAs are effectively managed; while in the marine realm, no MPA has an effective plan.ConclusionsOur results show the lack of both the effectiveness of and updates to the management plans for the vast majority of the national territory and raise the following question: is it sustainable to continue adding protected areas to the national system even though it is clear that the existing support is insufficient to meet the minimum requirements for full implementation?

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智利的保护区：我们在管理它们吗？

背景自 1900 年代中期以来，人类人口的增长一直伴随着对自然资源的不可持续利用以及对陆地和海洋生物群的相应影响。作为回应，大多数国家已建立保护区作为减少生物多样性丧失的工具，智利是《生物多样性公约》（CBD）和 2010 年爱知目标等国际保护协议的签署国之一。本研究回顾了迄今为止已创建的智利保护区，重点是所有陆地和海洋保护区管理计划的存在和有效性。使用两个过滤器单独评估有效性：1) 管理计划的年龄和2) IUCN 推荐的保护区管理有效性 (PAME) 方法的前四个步骤。结果我们表明，总共 145 个保护区 (PA) 中的 84 个，以及总共 20 个海洋保护区 (MPA) 中的仅 5 个具有管理计划。只有 12% (N = 16) 的保护区得到有效管理；而在海洋领域，没有一个 MPA 有一个有效的计划。结论我们的结果表明，绝大多数国家领土的管理计划缺乏有效性和更新，并提出以下问题：继续增加受保护的区域是否可持续？尽管现有的支持显然不足以满足全面实施的最低要求，但国家系统的领域？