Protected areas

Rezervácia Abrod bola vyhlásená v roku 1964 a svojou hodnotou z hľadiska biodiverzity patrí k najvýznamnejším rezerváciám Borskej nížiny, ako aj celého Slovenska. Na jej území sa organizácia DAPHNE v spolupráci so správou Chránenej krajinnej oblasti Záhorie od roku 1994 venuje aktivitám na pochopenie ekologických zákonitostí a zachovanie rezervácie.

The cultural and spiritual significance of nature has been defined as the spiritual, cultural, inspirational, aesthetic, historic and social meanings, values, feelings, ideas and associations that natural features and nature in general have for past, present and future generations of people – both individuals and groups.

This book tells the story of one of Australia’s natural wonders, Kosciuszko National Park. A National Heritage–listed treasure, the park is the home of the mainland’s highest mountains, past glaciation sites, limestone caves, fields of summer wildflowers and alpine animals and plants found nowhere else on Earth.

A medida que la cobertura global de las áreas protegidas se acerca al 20% de la superficie ter estre y al 10% de la superficie del ma , cada vez más personas, agencias y comunidades son responsables de salvaguardar el patrimonio natural y el cultural asociado en el planeta.

State of protected and conserved areas in Eastern and Southern Africa is the first report that brings together information on protected and conserved areas for the whole Eastern and Southern Africa region. The Eastern and Southern Africa region covers 24 countries from South Africa in the south to Sudan in the north and four of the six Western Indian Ocean island nations.

These Guidelines are intended to help improve the conservation and management of geoheritage and geodiversity in protected and conserved areas and recognition of the interrelationships and interactions with biological features and processes.

This manual is based on, and represents an expanded and updated edition of the first MEET manual. The purpose of this manual is to provide protected area managing bodies and the local ecotourism sector with a clear pathway to plan and enhance engaged conservation-focused ecotourism in their areas.