protected area
Every protected area, at any given time, has something valuable to offer to others. It is possible to take a snapshot of where each is at and learn from it. Lessons may be about a specific management activity, such as monitoring or zoning, or about an encompassing approach such as co-management. This book presents four such snapshots, which will be described and analysed in some depth in the...
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...
Throughout the world, managing protected areas involves people and organisations in widely differing roles. Field managers, whether working for an agency or for a community, deal with concrete problems and responsibilities on a daily basis and directly enjoy the rewards that only nature and culture at their best are able to provide. Local authorities and residents – administrators,...
The chapters in this guide are largely based upon the main themes of the 1991 International Consultation on Parks, Peaks and People, whose themes were selected to cover topics of wide general interest and applicability. These were published in 1992 as Guidelines for Mountain Protected Areas (edited by Duncan Poore, IUCN, Gland). Most of them address, to a greater or lesser extent, all the...
In most countries, conservation policies are focused on the conservation and protection of diverse ecosystems. One of the ways leading to ecosystem conservation has been through the creation of protected areas (PA), as it entails developing a series of guidelines, laws and regulations to govern the use of natural resources.
PA are conservation instruments created to protect a...
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...
IUCN's Programme on Protected Areas (PPA) provides updates on latest protected area and IUCN news.
This newsletter gives an update on WCPA Oceania, covering also international, Australian, New Zealand and Pacific island news. News includes updates on hazards (fires), biodiversity, climate change, policy on national parks and protected areas.
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