Implementing Green Infrastructures beyond Protected Areas

Conservation Biology: Beyond Marine Protected Areas

Socioeconomic and ecological analyses of eleven coral reef conservation efforts make clear that marine protected areas are not the answer, and that in fact support of local communities is far more important than some government mandated 'fishing closure'. Apparently there are marine 'paper parks' just as there are terrestrial 'paper parks'.

Caught in a Maelstrom: Implementing California Marine Protected Areas

Protected areas – protected species?

Wild life: The elusive fosa (Cryptoprocta ferox) is the top predator in the dry deciduous forests of Madagascar, but very little was known about its biology until the 1990s. The presence of volunteer groups studying its role in the forest’s ecology has also helped to protect its habitat. (Photo: Earthwatch/ Luke Dollar.) The world’s latest national park has just been created in the east of Russ...

Protected areas and poverty

Protected areas are controversial because they are so important for conservation and because they distribute fortune and misfortune unevenly. The nature of that distribution, as well as the terrain of protected areas themselves, have been vigorously contested. In particular, the relationship between protected areas and poverty is a long-running debate in academic and policy circles. We review t...

Financing Africa’s Protected Areas

Protected Areas (PAs) are fundamental for biodiversity conservation, for the provision of ecosystem services, and for tourism. In Africa, they are subject to increasing pressures of two kinds: objective factors, like high human fertility rates, that are generally not open to human manipulation, and subjective factors that are under human control. A major subjective component has been reduction ...