Protected areas

This report summarises the findings of a study, conducted between 2001 and 2002, which aimed to test the effectiveness of these strategies in reconciling biodiversity conservation and socio-economic development interests, in particular through interventions that both improved livelihoods and resulted in increased support for biodiversity conservation, in terms of the attitudes and behaviours of local communities.

Deforestation and forest degradation are two of the main causes of the progressing loss of terrestrial biodiversity and are continuing at an alarming rate worldwide, especially in tropical countries. The underlying drivers of forest destruction vary from region to region, but can be linked mainly to human activities such as land use pressure and related policies.

Denkmalschutz und Naturschutz sind zwei Disziplinen, die sich dem Schutz und der Pflege kulturhistorisch bedeutsamer Einzelobjekte, aber auch Ensembles und ganzen Landschaften annehmen. Nicht immer gelingt es, dieses Interesse gemeinsam zu vertreten, nicht immer entsprechen sich die disziplinären Zielsetzungen.

Le Maroc entreprend une initiative de grande envergure visant l'établissement d'un réseau national d'aires protégées écologiquement représentatif et adéquatement géré. Plus de 150 Sites d'Intérêt Biologique et Ecologique, identifiés dans différentes régions du pays constituent la base spatiale pour l'établissement de ces aires protégées. Jusqu'en 2006, neuf de ces sites ont été classés Parcs Nationaux.

This book goes beyond a presentation of Peru's beauty. It states different alternatives of tourism and the option of living a unique experience by exploring history, culture, nature and adventure, taking into acount the point of view that natural protected areas offer us. Additionally, this book presents examples of how these areas can be sources of social progress if they are used responsibly.

This book should give a wide-ranging overview of the North Estonian Klint as a nature monument symbolizing Estonian national identity, and not only from a geological-geographical point of view but also as a nature monument adding value to human living environment. Rocks and land, forest and the sea, economy and settlement history, people and tradition -- the Baltic Klint has left its clear-cut traces on all that in North Estonia.