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Displacement and relocation from protected areas is an important concern in Asia. Policies to create new parks or strengthen enforcement in existing ones, nationalise forest reserves, and implement stricter conservation rules on private lands under the guise of biodiversity or watershed management, have been resulting in significant relocations and dislocations of people.
In Thailand,...
Social scientists and indigenous advocates have critiqued conservation organisations for displacing local people in order to create protected areas (PAs). By pointing out that some protected areas, including Yellowstone, the model for the modern concept of national parks, were established by expelling local people, the critique shines a harsh light on conservationists and can undermine the...
<p>The focus of the Bulletin is on tourism and how it can help alleviate poverty in mountain areas:</p>
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<li>Making partnerships for sustainable gorilla tourism in Mgahinga, Uganda by Moses Musinguzi</li>
<li>Periyar eco-tourism project in Kerala, India by Santhosh P Thampi</li>...
Located off the coast of Georgia, Cumberland Island was once the retreat of some of America's wealthiest families, most notably the family of Thomas Carnegie, brother of steel magnate Andrew Carnegie, and his wife Lucy. The death in 1962 of their last child, Florence Carnegie Perkins, ended the restrictions of a complex family trust arrangement and led to the division of their land among...
Managing Mountain Protected Areas presents experience from around the world on a diverse set of issues related to the special circumstances of managing PAs in mountainous areas. Among the subjects are landscape-level inititatives, corridors, transboundary PAs, biodiversity, partnerships, wilderness, recreation, visitor impacts, and financing, among others. The book originated in a workshop...
Against Extinction tells the history of wildlife conservation from its roots in the 19th century, through the foundation of the Society for the Preservation of the Wild Fauna of the Empire in London in 1903 to the huge and diverse international movement of the present day. It vividly portrays conservation's legacy of big game hunting, the battles for the establishment of national parks, the...
The Vth IUCN World Parks Congress held in 2003 in Durban, South Africa was host to a stream of workshops dedicated to the broad topic of building support for protected areas. As a means of providing a more coherent picture, a separate set of workshops was held on communicating the benefits of protected areas. The collection of papers contained within this publication brings together the...
The Vth IUCN World Parks Congress was the largest gathering of protected area experts. In September 2003, some 3,000 participants met in Durban, South Africa for 10 days of reflection, discussion, debate and networking to consider the state of the world’s protected areas, the challenges they face and the opportunities that lie ahead. Are included the reports on the plenary sessions,...
This book presents an early exploration of the issues and options for protected area management with respect to global change.
Chapter 1 identifies the selected factors of global (socioeconomic, biophysical and institutional) change that are likely to have the most persistent and pervasive impacts on protected areas, and analyses their current and likely future impacts in protected...
The UN List is compiled by the UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre working in close collaboration with the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA). Information is provided by national protected areas authorities and the secretariats of international conventions and programmes. However, the 2003 UN List also benefits from the establishment in 2002 of the World Database on...
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