This study makes use of extensive spatial datasets, not previously available, to provide for the first time a comprehensive assessment of the conservation status of biodiversity in the terrestrial tropics. The extent to which potential habitats and closed moist forests are represented in protected areas is assessed. Priorities for conservation action are identified on the basis of a country's relative importance for a given habitat and the extent to which it is protected.
This directory provides details of measures taken to date to establish a system of protected areas in the region, which includes Afghanistan, Nepal, Bhutan, and parts of Pakistan, India, Burma, China and the former USSR. Each national system is reviewed and accompanied by a list and a map of protected areas. Over 100 individual properties are described in more detail.
The first in a series of directories on the protected area systems of the Indomalayan Realm, this volume covers Bangladesh, India; Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Each of the protected area systems is described under a series of standard headings, supported by lists of sites in each country, with 100 major sites in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka described in more detail.
