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The World Conservation Union (IUCN) Programme on Protected Areas is the focal point within the IUCN Secretariat for Protected Areas and serves as the Secretariat for the World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA). WCPA is the world’s leading global network of protected area specialists. It has designated Task Forces to deal with particular themes. The following is an extract from the...
The paradigm shift in park management from a fortress mentality to the participatory concept is represented as a major transformation in the conservation discourse in Nepal. The involvement of local people in the management of resources in national parks has been significantly effective in attaining the conservation goals of conserving wildlife without compromising the basic forest resource...
This study demonstrates the use of TARGET trade-offs analysis for prioritising environmental service payments (so-called PSA or 'Pagos por Servicios Ambientales' in Spanish ) to private land-owners in the Osa Conservation Area (ACOSA), Costa Rica.
The paper answers a number of research questions of direct management relevance in ACOSA and general relevance to biodiversity conservation...
Previous research identified three important issues of relevance to forest people's roles in sustainable forest management which the authors address here: the presence of a "conservation ethic", a feeling of closeness to the forest, and a significant forest-culture link. In this paper they examine a method (the Galileo), recently pre-tested for this purpose in West Kalimantan, which...
All poverty reduction is local. This is easy to forget given how discussion and debate on the subject is dominated by bilateral aid agencies, development banks, national governments and international NGOs. But regardless of higher level commitments and decisions, what actually happens on the ground in particular localities is what makes the difference. Many barriers to poverty reduction are...
The benefits of increasing the contribution of the social sciences in the fields of environmental and conservation science disciplines are increasingly recognised. However, integration between the social and natural sciences has been limited, in part because of the barrier caused by major philosophical differences in the perspectives between these research areas. This paper aims to contribute...
This project is not only a list of all existing species in a given area, but is also an important source of information on habitats, species distribution and abundance, and where possible life history information. All these data are extremely useful for local authorities, because they can contribute in improving land management and protecting threatened wildlife. In particular, both Mercantour...
The IUCN protected area management categories are a global framework, recognised by the Convention on Biological Diversity, for categorising the variety of protected area management types. The following guidelines provide direction, descriptions, principles and advice in the application of the IUCN protected area management categories in particular biomes and management approaches.
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This report is an output of IIED’s collaborative research project “Policy that works for biodiversity and poverty reduction” and is based on a literature review and three country case studies (India, Peru and Tanzania). It makes the connection between external policy, institutional and economic instruments and processes and the performance of community based initiatives for...
This report evaluates the Ecuadorian proposal to have the international community compensate Ecuador for not exploiting the oil in the ITT area of Yasuní National Park. It includes the evaluation of this proposal in a broader context, assessing the possible consequences of the arrangement for future systems for international payment for biodiversity/rainforest conservation or payment...
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