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Composing a vegetation-stand map for the protected area of 'Radan' Nature Park [PDF]

Zaštita prirode, 2020
Protected areas are one of the priorities for mapping habitats, especially forest habitats, which are dominant in most protected areas of central Serbia, such as "Radan" Nature Park. This paper presents the forest habitat mapping in the protected area of
Ostojić Dragana, Krsteski Biljana, Stojković Zoran, Petković Ana, Stojiljković Bogosav, Jovanović Ivana, Bosić Tamara   +6 more
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Challenges and opportunities for sustainable solid waste management in private nature reserves: The case of Sabi Sand Wildtuin, South Africa

Koedoe: African Protected Area Conservation and Science, 2022
The mismanagement of waste in protected areas may lead to significant and irreversible environmental, economic and social impacts, such as land degradation, resource depletion, surface and groundwater pollution, loss of biodiversity and impacts on the ...
Claudine Roos, Reece C. Alberts, Francois P. Retief, Dirk P. Cilliers, William Hodgson, Iain Olivier   +5 more
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Forest Inventories in Private and Protected Areas of Paraguay

Challenges, 2023
Environmental degradation in Paraguayan ecosystems relates to anthropogenic intervention and has intensified with wildfires and drought. To help mitigate forest cover loss, the local government created laws, parceled land to private owners, and established protected areas. How differences in land tenure regimes affect dendrology and biodiversity remain
Andrew G. Cervantes, Patricia T. Vega Gutierrez, Seri C. Robinson   +2 more
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Tourism commodification and privatization of nature: private protected areas in the Serra de Tramuntana (Mallorca)

Boletín de la Asociación de Geógrafos Españoles, 2023
The creation of private protected areas (PPA) is commonly considered an instrument of neoliberal conservation, characterized by private management and commodification of nature for (eco)tourism and other market-based instruments (MBIs). PPAs are accused of reproducing social inequalities when entailing enclosure, exclusivity, land grabbing or ...
Nora Müller, Robert Fletcher, Macià Blázquez Salom   +2 more
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Legal hunting for conservation of highly threatened species: The case of African rhinos

Conservation Letters, 2022
Legal hunting of threatened species—and especially the recreational practice of “trophy hunting”—is controversial with ethical objections being increasingly voiced.
Michael ’t Sas‐Rolfes, Richard Emslie, Keryn Adcock, Michael Knight   +3 more
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Opportunities for cost-sharing in conservation: variation in volunteering effort across protected areas [PDF]

, 2013
Efforts to expand protected area networks are limited by the costs of managing protected sites. Volunteers who donate labor to help manage protected areas can help defray these costs.
Mark Parnell (286657), Stoneman, Rob, Josephine E. Booth¤b, Booth, Josephine E., Josephine E Booth, Davies, Zoe G., Paul R. Armsworth, Rob Stoneman, Zoe G. Davies¤c, Zoe G. Davies (155036), Lisette Cantú-Salazar (286655), Cantu-Salazar, Lisette, Zoe G Davies, Josephine E. Booth (286659), Armsworth, Paul R., Paul R. Armsworth (265694), Rob Stoneman (286662), Mark Parnell, Parnell, Mark, Paul R Armsworth, Lisette Cantú-Salazar   +20 more
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A proposal for practical and effective biological corridors to connect protected areas in northwest Costa Rica [PDF]

Nature Conservation, 2019
Habitat loss and increases in habitat isolation are causing animal population reductions and extirpations in forested areas of the world. This problem extends to protected areas, which, while often well-conserved, can be too small and isolated to ...
Matthew D. Moran, Allison Monroe, Lindsay Stallcup   +2 more
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Habitat Connectivity for the Conservation of Small Ungulates in A Human-Dominated Landscape

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2021
Conserving landscape connections among favorable habitats is a widely used strategy to maintain populations in an increasingly fragmented world. A species can then exist as a metapopulation consisting of several subpopulations connected by dispersal. Our
Rajashekhar Niyogi, Mriganka Shekhar Sarkar, Poushali Hazra, Masidur Rahman, Subham Banerjee, Robert John   +5 more
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Private protected areas: management regimes, tenure arrangements and protected area categorization in East Africa [PDF]

Oryx, 2008
Abstract Private sector bodies can be important owners and managers of conservation areas. However, little is known about the extent, scale and scope of private protected areas. Understanding and defining the characterizations of private protected areas are problematic, as private sector involvement in protected areas can involve an array of ...
Eleanor Carter, William M. Adams, Jon Hutton   +2 more
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Management costs for small protected areas and economies of scale in habitat conservation [PDF]

, 2011
Protected area management must be resourced adequately to achieve its conservation objectives. The variability in management costs across candidate sites for protection therefore should inform conservation planning.
Armsworth, Paul R., Stoneman, Rob, Davies, Zoe G., Paul R. Armsworth, Rob Stoneman, Mark Parnell, Zoe G. Davies, Parnell, Mark, Cantu-Salazar, Lisette, Lisette Cantú-Salazar   +9 more
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