Target 3 of the GBF calls upon member states to “Ensure and enable that by 2030 at least 30 percent of terrestrial and inland water are effectively conserved and managed through ecologically representative, well-connected and equitably governed systems of protected areas and other effective area-based conservation measures (OECM’s). Recognition of OECMs presents a significant opportunity to characterise de facto effective long-term conservation taking place outside currently designated protected areas.