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Ecological Values amid Local Interests: Natural Resource Conservation, Social Differentiation, and Human Survival in Honduras*
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ABSTRACT Local peoples living in protected areas often have a different understanding about their natural space than do non-local groups that promote and declare such areas "protected." By designing protected areas without local involvement, or understandings of local social differentiation and power, natural resources management schemes will likely be unsuccessful. Protected area Cerro Guanacaure in southern Honduras has been subject to many development projects, most of which have failed, a...
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Obligations, Gaps, and Priorities Within the International Regime for Protected Areas
Georgetown International Environmental Law Review
; I. INTRODUCTION Protected areas are one of the less glamorous subjects of international environmental law. They are commonly overshadowed by what are perceived as much more dramatic topics, those that capture the public attention to a much greater degree.1 This is highly ironic for three reasons.
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Could do better: although the coverage of today's protected areas has surpassed targets set during the 1990s, the planning and management of many needs to improve.(Geographical dossier/protected areas)
Geographical
; The WCMC's database on protected areas has enabled scientists to begin assessing the effectiveness of global conservation planning. The first global gap analysis, prepared by Conservation International in 2003, found that although the global target of ten per cent coverage had been achieved, 12 per
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NATURE FOR LIFE PROTECTING PROTECTED AREAS, PART 2
The Manila Times
; Although the Philippines has a law on protected areas, very little attention and support are given to protected areas. For the millions of fishers who depend on the sea for their daily subsistence and of farmers who equally rely on forest resources for food on their tables, protected areas spell
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A theory in evolution: since the first national park was designated as a wilderness area more than 130 years ago, the concept of the protected area has changed significantly.(Geographical dossier/protected areas)
Geographical
; From the mid-1800s, the US government encouraged settlement and development of the nation's west in an effort to fulfil its self-proclaimed 'manifest destiny' to spread over the entire continent. But even as it was offering settlers cash incentives to work this untamed wilderness, Congress chose to
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Move to have more protected areas
New Straits Times
; New Straits Times 07-05-2000 Move to have more protected areas Edition: Main/Lifestyle; 2* Section: National Kuala Lumpur -- KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. - Determined to protect the country's rich biodiversity from the negative effects of rapid development, the Government hopes to increase the size and
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Undermining Wilderness.(mining industry threatens protected areas)
Alternatives Journal
; The Canadian mining industry is abandoning its support for a national network of protected areas LATE ONE EVENING in April 1998, a dike broke at the Canadian-owned Los Frailes zinc mine in southern Spain, releasing five million cubic metres of acidic mining waste into a nearby river. Flooding the
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Experts Warn Global Changes Threaten World's Protected Areas
U.S. Newswire
; WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Experts today warned that global changes such as climate change, growing population, and invasive alien species are threatening the unprecedented gains made in establishing parks and protected areas worldwide which today cover nearly 13 percent of the world's
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Take Protected Areas Seriously
International Herald Tribune
; Claude Martin International Herald Tribune 07-18-2000 Most of the news we read about the environment is bad. Almost every day come reports ... be concerned about them. Yet when we look at our planet, the news is not all bad. Sometimes human endeavor and intervention in ...
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NATURE FOR LIFE PROTECTING PROTECTED AREAS
The Manila Times
; MY colleague in conservation, Cristi Nozawa of BirdLife International, is the vice-chairman of the World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) which is one of the six volunteer commissions of the World Conservation Union (IUCN). The IUCN is a global NGO whose membership comprises both governments
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It's the least we can do for our world Protected areas
International Herald Tribune
; Nikita Lopoukhine International Herald Tribune 06-16-2005 There have always been protected areas, though not always for the same reasons. Robin Hood poached deer in the Royal Sherwood Forest, an area protected for royal hunting parties. The Yellowstone and Banff National Parks in North America were
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