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Privately protected areas in Mexico, a 2012–2023 update

Frontiers in Conservation Science
In 2002, the first privately protected area (PPA) was legally “certified” by the Mexican government. The last PPA country review used data from 2012, so a decadal update is considered to be timely.
Juan E. Bezaury-Creel
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Fairness and Transparency Are Required for the Inclusion of Privately Protected Areas in Publicly Accessible Conservation Databases

Land, 2018
There is a growing recognition of the contribution that privately-owned land makes to conservation efforts, and governments are increasingly counting privately protected areas (PPAs) towards their international conservation commitments.
Hayley S. Clements, Matthew J. Selinske, Carla L. Archibald, Benjamin Cooke, James A. Fitzsimons, Julie E. Groce, Nooshin Torabi, Mathew J. Hardy   +7 more
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Editorial: Advances in privately protected areas

Frontiers in Conservation Science
James A. Fitzsimons, James A. Fitzsimons, James A. Fitzsimons, James A. Fitzsimons, Sue Stolton, Sue Stolton, Miquel Rafa, Miquel Rafa   +7 more
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Conservation and social outcomes of private protected areas [PDF]

Conservation Biology, 2021
Abstract Government administered protected areas (PAs) have dominated conservation strategies, discourse, and research, yet private actors are increasingly managing land for conservation. Little is known about the social and environmental outcomes of these privately protected areas (PPAs).
Rachel Palfrey, Johan Oldekop, George Holmes   +2 more
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Guidelines for privately protected areas [PDF]

, 2018
These guidelines address planning and management of privately protected areas (or PPAs) and the guidance is aimed principally at practitioners and policy makers, who are or may be involved with PPAs. Guidance is given on all aspects of PPA establishment, management and reporting, and information is provided on principles and best practices, with ...
Brent Mitchell, Sue Stolton, Juan Bezaury-Creel, Heather Bingham, Tracey Cumming, Nigel Dudley, James Fitzsimons, Delphine Malleret-King, Kent Redford, Pedro Solano   +9 more
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Coverage and beyond: how can private governance support key elements of the Global Biodiversity Framework’s Target 3?

Frontiers in Conservation Science, 2023
A vast cross-societal effort will be needed to achieve the ambition of protecting and conserving 30% of the earth’s lands and oceans by 2030, as called for in Target 3 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.
Alanah Hayley Lewis, Bex Gottlieb, Brett Wilson, Jack Sutton, Janeth Lessmann, Giacomo Delli, Grégoire Dubois, Heather C. Bingham   +7 more
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Toward integrating private conservation lands into national protected area systems: Lessons from a megadiversity country

Conservation Science and Practice, 2021
Private conservation lands are essential for protecting biodiversity, but few national‐level studies have assessed their coverage and the legal frameworks that support them.
José Maria Cardoso daSilva, Luiz Paulo Pinto, Fábio Rubio Scarano   +2 more
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Community participation in local decision-making in protected areas: the case of the New Forest National Park, Hampshire, England. [PDF]

This research sought to establish the extent of and reasons for community participation and non participation in local decision-making practices in the New Forest National Park, a protected area, in Southern England.
Hewlett, Denise
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Protected Areas in Asia.zip

, 2023
 We extracted the targeted protected areas boundaries from The World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA), which is the most comprehensive global database on terrestrial and marine protected areas. 
World Database on Protected Areas (14819134)
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Land trusts as a complementary solution to nature conservation system in Poland

Economics and Environment, 2023
This article is a new voice in the debate on the future of nature conservation in Poland. It develops the subject of grass-roots initiatives in the context of the most important contemporary challenges related to area-based nature conservation.
Agata Burlińska, Aleksandra Nowakowska
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