Increasing the coverage of effectively managed protected areas (PAs) is a key focus of the 2020 Aichi biodiversity targets. PA management has received considerable attention, often based on the widely held, but rarely examined, assumption that positive conservation outcomes will result from increased PA management inputs. To shed light on this assumption, we integrated data on PA management factors with 2006–2011 avoided forest degradation and deforestation across the Peruvian Amazon, using a counterfactual approach, combined with interviews and ranking exercises. We show that while increasing PA management input to Amazonian PAs tended to reduce likelihoods of forest degradation and deforestation, the associations were weak. Key challenges facing PAs ranked by PA managers included wider law enforcement, corruption and land title issues, rather than local management factors. We therefore encourage the post‐2020 conservation targets to adopt holistic approaches beyond PA management, incorporating political, institutional and governance contexts across scales.

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热带保护区的保护绩效：管理有多重要？

扩大有效管理保护区的覆盖范围是2020年爱知生物多样性目标的重点。巴勒斯坦权力机构的管理受到了广泛的关注，通常是基于广泛持有但很少检查的假设，即积极的保护成果将由巴勒斯坦权力机构管理投入的增加而得出。为了阐明这一假设，我们使用反事实方法，结合访谈和排名练习，将有关保护区管理因素的数据与2006-2011年在秘鲁亚马逊河避免森林退化和森林砍伐的问题进行了整合。我们显示，虽然增加对亚马逊地区PA的PA管理投入倾向于减少森林退化和森林砍伐的可能性，但关联性较弱。巴勒斯坦权力机构经理对巴勒斯坦权力机构所面临的主要挑战包括广泛的执法，腐败和土地所有权问题，而不是当地的管理因素。因此，我们鼓励2020年后的保护目标在保护区管理之外采取整体方法，将不同规模的政治，制度和治理环境纳入考虑范围。