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The Rwanda Development Board-Tourism and Conservation (RDB-TC) implement a PES scheme to provide alternative livelihoods to people excluded from Volcanoes National Park (VNP) and Nyungwe National Park (NNP ) in Rwanda. It has disbursed USD 918959 (5% of tourism revenues from these protected areas) on community projects for environment protection, education, health care, water and...
The study focuses on PES in the Margalla Hills National Park (MHNP) in Pakistan, covering 15,800 hectares on the outskirts of Islamabad. It reveals insufficient capture of potential park revenues and recommends an entrance fee of Rs 20 per visitor to enhance park revenues, based on the Individual Travel Cost Method. Imposing this fee would generate an annual revenue of Rs 11...
The Mt. Elgon Conservation and Development Project Phase III commenced in July 1996, following on from two previous phases, Phase I from 1988 to 1990 and Phase II from 1990 to 1994, and a transition phase from 1994 to July 1996. The project was developed in response to threats to the Mt Elgon ecosystem through agricultural encroachment and illegal resource exploitation resulting from a wide...
Shimshal is a farming and herding community of some 1400 inhabitants in northern Pakistan, close to the Chinese border where the Pamir and Karakorum Mountains meet. The community is sole steward of vast areas of high-altitude pasture and depends greatly on transhumant livestock herding and agriculture. Shimshal pastures are scattered across 2700 km2 of the central Karakoram. Since 1974, there...
Fulufjället, with an area of 385 km2, was recently designated Sweden’s 28th national park. This article describes how the park establishment process turned negative local opinion positive. The basis for success was a shift of focus from restrictions inside the boundaries of the national park to opportunities outside. This “inside-out process implies a new approach to area...
The Slovak Republic is one of the most forested countries in Europe. Forest covers about 20,000 km2 (41%) of the total area of the country, a substantial part of which is occupied by the mountains of the Carpathian Arch (highest peak: Gerlachovsky Peak, 2655 m). Forests in Slovakia have commercial functions as well as functions of benefit to the public: timber production, water...
The 5th World Parks Congress of IUCN was held in Durban, South Africa, 8–17 September 2003. The theme of “Benefits Beyond Boundaries” attracted around 3000 participants from all over the world who are concerned with Protected Areas issues. It was announced at the gathering that, on paper at least, 12 percent of the terrestrial surface of the earth is now under some kind of...
Farming is the principal source of income for communities in the Luangwa Valley, a mixed woodland landscape dotted with smallholder farms. The main food crops are maize and sorghum, but increasingly farmers rely on cash crops such as cotton and tobacco, which leaves families less able to directly meet their own food security needs. Planting monoculture crops depletes nutrients in the soil, as...
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