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Sajama National Park in Bolivia's Cordillera Occidental is not only the country's oldest national park; it also contains Bolivia's highest mountain, ice-capped Nevado Sajama, at 6,542 m. Created in 1939 by presidential decree with the primary objective of protecting native keñua (Polylepis tarapacana) forests, the Sajama National Park, later ratified by national law, had neither...
Leykun Abune, Program Coordinator, Simen Mountains Integrated Development Program, faces the dual challenge of depleted animal and vegetal genetic resources and increasing rural poverty in the Simen Mountains National Park.
This update lists the IUCN's Programme on Protected Areas (PPA) with the latest protected area and IUCN news.
Protected areas have long been one of the main strategies for safeguarding the world’s biodiversity. But pressures on the environment caused by economic development and other human activities make it difficult to protect natural areas that are large enough to accommodate entire ecosystems. On the other hand ecosystems need to be treated with care, because they provide goods and services...
The Directory is in three sections:
- People
- Organisations
- Places
The section entitled “People” aims to identify key individuals working in the protected areas field. Such individuals include experts from the region, members of the WCPA within the East Asia region and the Regional WCPA Steering Committee for East Asia. As well...
‘Good governance’ is now firmly entrenched on the international agenda. This is evident from the outcomes of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, with the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation stating that “good governance within each country and at the international level is essential for sustainable development”. This link was further reinforced in the context...
The following guidelines are offered to help in application of the IUCN protected area management categories, which classify protected areas according to their management objectives. The categories are recognised by international bodies such as the United Nations and by many national governments as the global standard for defining and recording protected areas and as such are increasingly...
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