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Institutional strengthening of the Amarakaeri Communal Reserve (Madre de Dios River, Peruvian Amazon Basin)
Since 2002, the Peruvian government has allowed the Harakmbut people to conserve and manage natural resources within their ancestral territory. In order to alleviate the difficulties the Harakmbut had in establishing the institutional and operational framework of this protected area, a Partnership Action for Mitigating Syndromes (PAMS) project aiming to strengthen indigenous institutions in...
Protected areas: A resource or constraint for local people? A study at Chitral Gol National Park, North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan
The authors investigated local people's perceptions, knowledge, and attitudes toward conservation planning and management in Chitral Gol National Park in North West Frontier Province (NWFP) of Pakistan. A literature review was undertaken to unravel the historic drivers behind the formation of this protected area. Key informant interviews and questionnaire surveys were conducted to evaluate...
Managing mountain protected areas: Challenges and responses for the 21st century

This book presents 49 papers that formed the basis of a "Mountain Protected Area Field Workshop" organised by the Mountain Biome of the World Commission on Protected Areas of the World Conservation Union (IUCN) in South Africa's uKhahlama-Drakensberg World Heritage Site in September 2003.  Referring to 28 different mountain areas around the world, a collection of 49 papers is...

The Altai Assistance Project

The Altai Republic, known as “the Switzerland of Russia”, is located on the southwestern edge of Siberia, in the Russian portion of the Altai-Sayan range which continues into Kazakhstan, China, and Mongolia. It is a spectacularly beautiful, unspoiled, and undeveloped land of forests, open rangeland, and mountain peaks up to 4,500 m. In 1998, five separate nature...

New protected areas in Norway: Local participation without gender equality

In Norway, as in many other countries, new protected areas are currently being established and managed with strong policy references to “local participation.” Is this policy implemented in a way that incorporates the concern for gender equality? The present article provides data from a study of two cases in which new protected areas have recently been established...

Drawing the line: Nature, hybridity and politics in transboundary spaces

Protected areas - national parks, biosphere reserves, and the like - contribute importantly to the preservation of the ever more beleaguered wild plants and animals with which humankind shares this planet. The many thousand kilometres of national boundaries that separate the approximately 190 intensely sovereign nations (with at least half of those boundaries being undefined or contested) have...

Sacred vs profane: Conflict over the San Francisco peaks
Mount Fuji (Japanese icon and revered mountain), Mount Kailas (sacred to Hindus, Buddhists, Jains, and Bons), Mount Olympus (home of the early Greek gods and goddesses), and many other mountains around the world have special significance that should give them a protective shield against damaging development. However, as spiritual and cultural values seem to erode in our increasingly Westernised,...
Land use and land cover change in highland temperate forests in the Izta-Popo National Park, central Mexico
The long-term preservation of national park ecosystems requires scientific knowledge about land use/cover change (LUCC) that influences these ecosystems. LUCC in Mexican temperate mountain forests as depicted in satellite imagery was evaluated for three time intervals: 1970–1980, 1981–1990, and 1991–2000. Forest cover declined at an average rate of 0.35 ha per year due to...
A Siachen Peace Park: The solution to a half-century of international conflict?

These letters to the author address the proposal of a peace park in Siachen.

Protecting China Cedar (Cryptomeria fortunei) habitat using GIS-based simulation, modeling of existence probability, and function zoning
The Tianmu Mountain National Nature Reserve (TMNNR) preserves the only primeval forest of China cedar (Cryptomeria fortunei) in the world. In order to assist in planning the protection of China cedar habitat and propose a scientific zoning project for TMNNR, the authors established a nature reserve geographic information system (NRGIS) of TMNNR using a geographic information system...

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