Protected areas remain a cornerstone for global conservation. However, their effectiveness at halting biodiversity decline is not fully understood. Studies of protected area benefits have largely focused on measuring their impact on halting deforestation and have neglected to measure the impacts of protected areas on other threats. Evaluations that measure the impact of protected area managemen...

Conflicts between resource-dependent people and protected area managers abound in many developing countries. From the rural people's perspective, protected areas may contain valuable or necessary natural resources that are worth the effort, and risk of capture, to extract. From the protected area manager's perspective, the rural people's extraction of resources causes environmental degradation ...

the objective of this research was to identify and describe the different ecological species groups (vegetation types) present in the rural heritage museum of guilan. the study area was approximately 260 ha, which is located in the saravan forest park in guilan province, north of iran. sampling procedure was performed with a systematic random technique. a total of 89 plots were sampled. classif...

sensitive coastal areas are fragile ecosystems affected by geographic features and in the same time settlements were developed around these areas due to their ecological capability. coastal ecosystems due to their countless benefits are very important for protection. hence, this paper attempts to determine the sensitivity of coastal ecosystem to disturbances in hormozgan province. we reviewed 2...