Sentences with phrase «of protected areas»

A full quarter of the country is in protected national parks, the largest percentage of protected areas in the world.

To ensure future persistence, tiger populations need to be managed as a network of protected areas connected by corridors.

With the former playing an integral role in conservation strategy as they help wild flora and fauna find refuge outside of protected areas.

But they have been protecting for the last 50 years huge portions of the country in a network of the national system of protected areas.

He has written on the global extent of wilderness and the role of communities in the management of protected areas.

For example, there's been a 14 % increase in the proportion of the population with access to safe drinking water, and the number of protected areas is increasing.

«Only 3.5 percent of the protected area is shelf, where the oil and gas and fishing are,» he says.

The effectiveness of protected areas such as nature reserves in supporting a species depends on how much the species already uses, or potentially could use, the habitat.

For this reason the government has ordered an increasing amount of protected area's.

These findings come at a time when countries are working toward what could become the biggest expansion of protected areas in history.

What is more, the benefits of this kind of protection extend beyond the boundaries of a protected area.

They recognize that part of the current failure of the protected areas to stop the decline of biodiversity is partly to do with the lack of science available.

The researchers analyzed the success of protected areas from 2000 to 2010.

The ability of protected areas to offer strong climate change resilience benefits is likely to be contingent on these characteristics.

In the midst of the protected area are in fact present countless Mayan ruins.

Less than 1.5 percent has any form of protected area status.

It's a way of protecting areas which otherwise might be devastated in the name of short - term financial gain, but the elimination of which has lasting environmental and social implications.

It might seem like some of these things are trivial, but each little piece of protected area matters.

The current global network of protected areas is quite extensive, covering 17 million square kilometers of land and 2 million square kilometers of oceans.

Their need to move often puts them at risk, as they may travel outside of protected areas.

The island is actually part of a protected area since 1981 and is included as part of the reef as a World Heritage site.

Community Management of Protected Areas Conservation (COMPACT) Project held consultations with various members of the San Pedro community regarding future funding for economic projects.

These include the growing concern in commodity markets on the environmental performance of ranchers and farmers; greater investment in fire control mechanisms among owners of fire - sensitive investments; emergence of a carbon market for forest - based offsets; and the establishment of protected areas in regions where development is fast - expanding.

Together with colleagues from the International Food Policy Research Institute, Duke University, the University of Alberta, and Costa Rica's Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza, Ferraro analysed the impact of protected areas on deforestation in Costa Rica between 1960 and 1997.

A new study published in the open access journal PLOS Biology attempted to calculate the global value of protected areas in terms of ecotourism, as well as the total number of visits per year protected areas receive.

Born and raised in El Quetzalito, a rural community in the state of Petén, Guatemala, the 48 - year - old Román started working in 1990 with the National Council of Protected Areas of Guatemala (CONAP)-- the organization tasked with making the 2.1m - hectare (6m - acre) Maya Biosphere Reserve a reality — and has worked in conservation ever since, including as director of CONAP.

Nations with the largest number of «gap species» or species whose range lie entirely outside of protected areas include the U.S., Canada, and Brazil.

In other parts of the world where either it is not possible for the Nature Conservancy to do land acquisition (or in a place like China where there is no private land ownership) we use very different kinds of tools, including working with governments on the development and creation of their protected areas networks, for example.

The Sumatran Tiger Conservation Program is working with local partners to incorporate this area within the park, doubling the size of the protected area for tigers and other endangered wildlife.

Those sites and co-managers that constitute the BBRRS can also access funds under the Community Management of Protected Areas for Conservation (COMPACT) and other international funding sources.

There are seven types of protected areas in Belize, each with their own guidelines for how they may be used.

A smaller percentage of protected areas in Europe (24 %) and North America (17 %) exhibited high levels of nighttime lighting in all years.

The study, which is the first comprehensive assessment of protected areas coverage on marine life, appears in the international journal Scientific Reports.

«The effectiveness of protected areas needs to be thoroughly examined and monitored, and new approaches that integrate ecology, demography and socioeconomics are needed to truly protect protected areas.»

Most of them are quite small and only some 8 percent of protected areas worldwide contain ample — and sufficiently variable — landscape to maintain their present climactic biomes 100 years from now.

It was found that protected areas that were strictly set aside to protect biodiversity and where human visitation was strictly controlled were shown to be ineffective at slowing down deforestation while the other categories of protected areas achieved mixed results.

The scientists said drilling on the coastal plain would be particularly harmful because it contains a «unique compression» of habitats supporting animals like polar bears, grizzly bears, wolverines, representing «the greatest wildlife diversity of any protected area above the Arctic Circle.»

This should prevent some of the bad blood that has developed when local people have been shut out of protected areas (Campbell, 2000).

A comprehensive study of biodiversity indicators over the past decade [116] reveals that, despite some local success in increasing extent of protected areas, overall indicators of pressures on biodiversity including that due to climate change are continuing to increase and indicators of the state of biodiversity are continuing to decline.

In fact, despite the hundreds of millions of dollars in donor funds that have flowed into the region since 2000 and the establishment of more than 100 million hectares of protected areas since 2002, average annual deforestation rates have increased since the 1990s, peaking at 73,785 square kilometers (28,488 square miles) of forest loss between 2002 and 2004.

In fact there are likely to be severe setbacks in the total numbers or area of protected areas in many tropical countries, therefore decentralising conservation policies to communities and local stakeholders can be powerful and effective.

«It is not able to live in the degraded habitats that are left in many of these protected areas.»

The Estancia is a good example of sustainable rainforest use in line with the conservation goals of the protected area by cultivating organic yerba mate and the heart of palm Euterpe edulis78.

There are somewhere between 2800 to 3300 ha of coffee and about 3000 to 4000 ha of protected area.

A secondary and closely connected link between ecosystem diversity, protected area management and organic agriculture is in the buffer zones (the region near the border of a protected area).

The use of organic agriculture in protected buffer zones has been explored in the Meso - American Biological Corridor, a complex of protected areas and sustainable management stretching over seven countries.

Although the trend is grim, the study of protected areas offers some hope that marine ecosystems can rebound, according to the paper presenting the analysis in the November 3 issue of Science.

Noise pollution from humans has doubled sound levels in more than half of all protected areas in the United States — from local nature reserves to national parks — and it has made some places 10 times louder, according to a new study.

Other data included the cost of acquiring tracts of land, and the location of protected areas.

With increasing efforts to assess the efficacy of protected areas worldwide and calls to remove underperforming sites, the findings of this study provides new perspectives to conservation planning processes.