[PDF] Top 20 Apes, protected areas and infrastructure in Africa

... Along with the ICCN, a wider investment program known as the Virunga Alliance draws on the resources of the park to deliver broad-based services to the community in a way that is sensitive to the environment, focused on ... See full document

... Wich, S.A., Gaveau, D., Abram, N., et al. (2012b). Understanding the impacts of land-use policies on a threatened species: is there a future for the Bornean orang-utan? PLoS One, 7, e49142. DOI: ... See full document

... A common assumption is that increasingly higher-resolution satellite imagery is needed for better road mapping. However, spatial data from the Landsat and EU Sentinel satellites, and composite images produced by Google ... See full document

... of protected areas network vulnerability to climate change in West ...and protected areas, and build in-country capacity for protected ... See full document

... and Protected Areas in the three countries, the three Park Managers and their field Technical Advisors, as well as regional and national representatives from WWF, WCS and GTZ, and the World ... See full document

... distant areas are promoting species extinction before species can even be known by ...Such infrastructure has long been linked to the main causes of deforestation in this ...priority areas for future ... See full document

... southern Africa as a way of bridging wildlife conservation and development ...of protected areas entailed complex choices about which species, practices, and individuals belonged in different ... See full document

... South Africa * Corresponding author, e-mail: ...marine protected areas ...biodiversity areas, other recognised elements of effectiveness, connectivity, and ecological effects—from the scale of ... See full document

... managed areas by commercial operators are too ...managed areas must recognise the need for longer-term access rights commensurate with business investment ...the protected area, or investment in ... See full document

... Most of the studies reported on in Appendix A deal with a protected area or areas but the choice of participants differ. This leads to the third research gap, namely that most studies focus on local ... See full document

... four areas of high conservation value (total area = 65,594 ...hunting areas to enhance the conservation value of the four well-preserved ...degraded areas can help to further stabilize the ... See full document

... the protected areas; the latter is illustrated by the multiplication of associations, producer groups and local NGOs with very diverse and essentially irreconcilable objectives that undermines the efficacy ... See full document

... overview Africa The Commission focused attention on Africa in the early ...national protected area assessments and provide assistance to the newly independent countries in their efforts to retain ... See full document

... for infrastructure (main road construction and tourism developments), and inappropriate agricultural practices (Cortés & Risk 1985, Cortés 1990, Cortés & Jiménez 2003a, b, Alvarado et ... See full document

... The challenge extends beyond the increase of protection and includes a set of measures lined up to restore nature. Measures aim to revert the deterioration in conservation trends, improve and maintain the status of at ... See full document

... Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty 1991 (the Madrid Protocol). CCAMLR and the Madrid Protocol have differing boundaries which creates problems with harmonising their roles. The vast majority of the Treaty ... See full document

... Just as our nation’s parks and wilderness areas protect special places on land, California’s MPAs protect a wide array of ocean and estuarine habitats and species. From rocky intertidal zones to tranquil ... See full document

... But in the long run, benefits vastly overrule initial costs. Seen in a global perspective, the cost of a network of MPAs covering 30 per cent of the oceans is estimated at less than global spending on harmful subsidies to ... See full document

... a protected place by virtue of the provisions of section ...a protected area or a protected place to exercise the powers of an authorized officer under this ... See full document

... ecological areas, a network of predominantly forest reserves, was initiated by the former New Zealand Forest Service (NZFS) in the 1970s within the context of large-scale utilisation and exotic conversion ... See full document