Protected areas

Anticosti, ce morceau de continent échoué comme une baleine sur son flanc, a attiré de tout temps les êtres épris de liberté. Ce récif démesuré a seine la mort mais il a aussi donne le bonheur. Une solitude obsédante s'en dégage, devenant le refuge de ceux qui rêvent d'un nouveau monde en marge de la modernité. La relation d'Alain Dumas et d'Yves Ouellet avec Anticosti en est une de passion, presque d'obsession.

Areas of high ecological value, i.e. parks and protected areas as well as urban parks, experience ever increasing pressures from recreation and tourism. In addition, new technologies make remote areas increasingly accessible. This leads to extensive ecological impacts, and to increasing conflicts between user groups.

Handbook and abstracts for conference held in 1996.

The starting point of the present study is the fact that the quality of biotopes in Switzerland that are nationally protected is deteriorating and some are also shrinking in size. There are nearly 6000 biotopes in Switzerland, covering about 2% of the country's surface area. They belong to five categories: raised bogs, fens, floodplains, dry meadows and pastures, and spawning areas for amphibians.

The Alberto Löfgren State Park (PEAL) is a conservation unit of indirect use, with 174 hectares, located in the northern city of São Paulo, which receives an enormous amount of public visitors. The report aimed to perform a diagnosis of public visitation and outline proposals for action for the conservation unit, in order to help the management in this park.

Mediante una discusión del concepto de parque nacional, tal como se ha ido usando por la legislación española para establecer la red de parques nacionales, con el objetivo de averiguar hasta qué punto pueden existir áreas apropiadas para su catalogación como parque nacional de acuerdo a lo que la propia administración ha ido definiendo como tales mediante la creación de la citada red de parques.