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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...
A map of the world, or of any continent (except Australia), is a patchwork quilt of countries of various sizes and shapes. Sometimes they have boundaries that make geographical sense. Other times, the boundaries are straight lines, imposed by colonial powers centuries ago. Today, territorial integrity is a foundation principle of the relations between governments, but even so, boundary...
Indicative of the intense interest and activity in this area of conservation biology, there has been a wealth of new material over the last decade. This includes several published conference proceedings, critical reviews, and a variety of papers reporting field studies, computer simulations and application of conceptual principles to land-use planning. There is also a rapidly growing number of...
This book is one of the outputs of the programme of work undertaken in 2005-2008 by IUCN's Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM). In selecting the case studies, it was CEM's view that the Ecosystem Approach had to be applied in multiple-use landscapes where Protected Areas formed no part, or only one among several parts, of the whole ecosystem.
These cases make it clear that...
This report presents an initial analysis of the role of natural World Heritage Sites within the global protected areas “estate”. It is primarily based on protected area data included in the UNEP-IUCN World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA). The analysis is based on figures held within WDPA on the recorded areas of natural World Heritage Sites relative to the extent of...
Category V protected areas – Protected Landscapes and Seascapes – are defined by IUCN as areas “of land, with coasts and seas as appropriate, where the interaction of people and nature over time has produced an area of distinct character with significant aesthetic, ecological and/or cultural value, and often with high biological diversity. Safeguarding the integrity of this...
This is the sixth in IUCN’s series of Working Papers which provide global overviews of natural World Heritage sites in the major biomes on earth. The theme of this Working Paper 6 is mountains, a theme chosen to coincide with the designation by the UN as the International Year of the Mountains. The objectives of this Working Paper are to: (1) identify and analyze the existing natural and...
Protected areas have become part and parcel of global debates on such issues as security, human rights, genetic resources, foods and medicines, access to land and resources, social and cultural values and human heritage. Yet, while there are growing efforts to secure these areas, protected areas are also experiencing direct and indirect threats to their very survival. What must be done to...
The Water Resources Use Project (WRUP) implemented by the King Mahendra Trust for Nature Conservation (KMTNC) in the Annapurna Conservation Area (ACA) with the financial support of the Ford Foundation began in August 2000 and ended in July 2003. WRUP was implemented as an integral part of the KMTNC’s Annapurna Conservation Area Project (ACAP), which covers the region around the Annapurna...
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...
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