conservation
The Bhutan Trust Fund for Environmental Conservation (BTFEC) was established in 1991 as a sustainable, domestic funding source for Bhutan's environmental programmes. Almost a decade after its inception, the trust fund has spent US$1.66 million against an accumulated capital base of US$34.71 million. Grant making is guided by five-year funding objectives, focusing on conservation of biological...
This paper critically assesses the globally dominant pattern of complex relationship that obtains among mass media, market economics, and both cultural and environmental change. Making use of Buddhist conceptual resources that link the meaning of development, environmental conservation and attentional enrichment, the effects of consuming mass media commodities are evaluated in ways that are...
In July, 2006 the authors had the pleasure of working in Bhutan with the emerging Ugyen Wangchuck Environment and Forestry Institute (UWEFI). Along with others (i.e., several American academics, a Danish forester, and Bhutanese representatives from the Natural Resource Training Institute, government agencies and the private sector), they examined conservation education goals and institutional...
Development of forest areas, particularly in the mountain regions of NWFP, is faced with the two-key challenges of poverty alleviation and environmental conservation.
According to State of the World's Forests, published by FAO (Food and Agricultural Organisation), only 2.36m hectare of land in Pakistan is under forest cover, which constitutes 3.1% of the total land area in country and...
A study was conducted to identify the role of community forests in the conservation of faunal diversity in various community forests practiced in the Satbariya Range Post of Dang district. The study aimed to understand and evaluate the role of community forests in biodiversity, especially faunal conservation efforts. Different methods such as questionnaire survey, group discussion and...
Biodiversity offsets are measurable CONSERVATION OUTCOMES resulting from actions designed to compensate for significant residual adverse biodiversity impacts arising from project development6 after appropriate prevention and MITIGATION measures have been taken. The goal of biodiversity offsets is to achieve NO NET LOSS and preferably a NET GAIN of biodiversity on the ground with respect to...
Conservation doesn’t happen in a vacuum. In recent years, awareness has grown of the relationship of international conservation practice to indigenous peoples and local communities, and especially the links between conservation and human rights. The impacts protected areas can have on rural communities – such as evictions and lost access to natural resources – are now...
The links between human rights and biodiversity and natural resource conservation are many and complex. The conservation community is being challenged to take stronger measures to respect human rights and is taking opportunities to further their realisation. ‘Rights-based approaches’ (RBAs) to conservation are a promising way forward,...
California’s growing population, its $1.4 trillion economy and natural resources all require clean, reliable and affordable water. At the same time with extremely limited federal, state and local budgets no one can afford to make investment decisions that will not produce results.
This Investment Strategy for California Water identifies the most cost-effective,...
The Maloti–Drakensberg bioregion is the highest part of the southern African grassland biome shared by the Kingdom of Lesotho and South Africa. This bioregion is dominated by the Maloti–Drakensberg mountain range, which forms the eastern boundary between Lesotho and three of South Africa’s provinces, namely, the Orange Free State, Kwa-Zulu/Natal, and the Eastern Cape. The...
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