Global Protected Area Expansion: Creating More than Paper Parks
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Global Protected Area Expansion: Creating More than Paper Parks
Aichi target 11 of the Convention of Biological Diversity promotes the expansion of the global protected area network to cover 17 percent of all terrestrial land and 10 percent of coastal and marine areas by 2020 (www.cbd.int/sp/targets). At the recent World Parks Congress, organized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in Sydney, Australia, 12 innovative approaches wer...
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عنوان ژورنال: BioScience
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1525-3244,0006-3568
DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biv064