Whatever the extent of protected areas, the highest priority is to improve the management of the current protected areas.
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But just 4,334 protected areas, amounting to 10% of analyzed protected areas, "are completely free of intense human pressure," they wrote.
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Given that most biodiversity will always lie outside protected areas, the key challenge is to conserve and sustainably use biodiversity outside of protected areas.
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Other protected areas fell out of protection for land development.
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Oil firms are not allowed to drill in protected areas.
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Those populations were across 126 protected areas in 19 countries.
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He now proposes opening up some protected areas for logging.
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It's unclear, however, how large Obama's protected areas will be.
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It's the worst deforestation of all protected areas in Brazil.
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Both protected areas are massive and opposed by Utah leaders.
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Roughly 2000% of the deforestation took place in nominally protected areas.
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Creating large protected areas that cross borders could help, for example.
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Now, the Trump administration is trying to shrink similar protected areas.
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"Rivers are basically the redheaded stepchild of protected areas," he said.
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The rapid growth of protected areas from Peru to Indonesia is exacerbating their vulnerability: more than 250,000 people in 15 countries were evicted because of protected areas from 1990 to 0003, according to data compiled by RRI.
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Should the U.N. create a new agency just for Marine Protected Areas?
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Ivory Coast estimates about 40 percent its cocoa comes from protected areas.
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Mexico is now freeing up two hitherto protected areas, telecoms and energy.
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From 22012 to 22013, nations designated an astonishing 22016,000 new protected areas.
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The International Peace Information Service, an independent research institute based in Belgium, has documented more than 2130,22000 of these mines, and the Wildlife Conservation Society has counted at least 240 more within protected areas and proposed protected areas.
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Ivory Coast has estimated 40 percent of its cocoa comes from protected areas.
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During the same time period, populations remained stable in protected areas without conflict.
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Earle has fought for decades to create marine protected areas across the planet.
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Most of the funding in that time period supported reserves and protected areas.
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The protected areas are critical to imperiled species like whales and sea turtles.
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They found current protected areas only cover about 1/4 of species diversity.
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Some argue that these open-ocean protected areas harbor hundreds of oceangoing species.
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But without protected areas, many more species would have already slipped into extinction.
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Few protected areas in Africa enjoy anything close to that kind of support.
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The existence of the supercolony could bolster support for Marine Protected Areas around Antarctica.
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Still, she is heartened by the number of countries willing to create protected areas.
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Connecting these protected areas with corridors would enable animals to move back and forth.
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People living around protected areas need to see practical benefits to living with wildlife.
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It also means expanding protected areas and, critically, taking concrete steps to enforce them.
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Mangroves, Mediterranean forests, some grasslands and savannahs were among protected areas most at risk.
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The proposed structures would cut through various protected areas, including the National Butterfly Center.
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Some were in protected areas, others were in places where foxes are heavily hunted.
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Creating formal protected areas was a better way of protecting the rainforest, Davalos said.
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When in office, Kabila drew criticism for offering drilling deals that encroached on protected areas.
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That is why the American public enjoys its national parks, monuments and other protected areas.
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This is why the commission had pledged to create a network of marine protected areas.
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For generations, local fishermen have safeguarded their supplies of fish by creating marine protected areas.
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Mr. Trump's plans add up to the largest elimination of protected areas in American history.
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And the panel advocated expanding protected areas to shield species and to allow ecosystems to recover.
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Roughly 18% of China is given over to national parks or protected areas of some sort.
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" In another post, the top model said that protected areas are being destroyed "for private interests.
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The protected areas were created last year, before the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff in August.
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Why it matters: In many places in Africa, protected areas are the last strongholds for biodiversity.
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What they found: Africa's protected areas are extremely sensitive to the disturbances that come with war.
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The United Nations Environment Programme estimates protected areas hold 15% of the carbon stored on land.
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In order to safeguard protected areas, experts emphasized the need for governments to allocate additional resources.
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The United Nations Environment Programme estimates protected areas hold 15% of the carbon stored on land.
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In order to safeguard protected areas, experts emphasized the need for governments to allocate additional resources.
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"Among the victims of these alleged abuses are indigenous peoples living near protected areas," they wrote.
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Parks and other protected areas were expanding in many regions, including the Americas and Asia-Pacific.
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According to government reports, 104 marine protected areas either exist or are coming down the pike.
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Such a score could discourage policymakers and groups from pursuing additional protected areas near urban settings.
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The companies also signaled their support for the network of protected areas currently before the commission.
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"This area falls between two marine-protected areas that are being planned right now," she said.
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Second, governments should mandate a significant increase in protected areas, both on land and at sea.
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In Thailand, conflict with humans often arises when elephants leave protected areas to seek human crops.
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Government-established protected areas are essential if future generations are to benefit from Earth's incredible richness.
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Establishing protected areas is critically important work, and the first line of defense is preserving biodiversity.
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These protected areas are not perfect, and about a third are facing potential or real threats.
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Protected areas were protected well before advocates from industrialized countries decided that these areas needed protection.
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That means small gains in the protected areas are probably dwarfed by the species' overall decline.
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But as with all of the protected areas on the border, these populations are dwindling fast.
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This latest find could add support for the proposed Marine Protected Areas designation for the Weddell Sea.
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"Among the victims of these alleged abuses are indigenous peoples living near protected areas," the letter says.
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Russia also said it would cut budgeted expenditure - outside the protected areas - by 10 percent in 2015.
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It helps that the number of marine protected areas (MPAs) around the world is on the rise.
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This underscores the need to enforce conservation and fishing bans in protected areas like Chagos, said Ferretti.
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EBRD said it also improved its assessment process and pulled out of some projects near protected areas.
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Governments can use it to help monitor marine protected areas and enforce the borders around those areas.
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Splitters would accomplish this by having people consolidate into cities, while radically increasing protected areas for wilderness.
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There's nothing stopping sectoral organizations from setting up protected areas right now, says the Commonwealth Secretariat's Ardron.
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These protected areas have been established, in part, to protect wildlife and plants that span both countries.
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Covering 50,000 sq km, the reserve is one of the largest protected areas in Africa, according to UNESCO.
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Researchers looked at thousands of reports about wildlife populations in protected areas in Africa between 1946 and 2010.
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This sanctuary was first established in 1986, and then greatly expanded in 2012 into six discrete protected areas.
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People may move through protected areas, and those who would otherwise eat livestock hunt wild animals to eat.
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We then need to develop a holistic interconnected system of protected areas that includes biodiversity not currently protected.
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Ethiopia recently created three new protected areas in an effort to save wild arabica coffee, according to Davis.
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She also advocates for more security in protected areas to prevent animal theft, poaching, and illegal tree-felling.
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Staff at the Louvre are scrambling to move art to protected areas in case the flooding gets worse.
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Nations could also expand protected areas of the ocean to help marine ecosystems stay resilient against shifting conditions.
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A perfect storm In Cambodia, setting snares is illegal in protected areas -- where most of the wildlife is found.
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He advocates establishing a number of protected areas—"inkspots"—which could become autonomous zones in a more confederal Syria.
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At least 650 orangutans were lost in protected areas of Sabah's eastern lowlands between 2002 and 2017, WWF said.
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There are 444 protected areas in Malaysia, it added, with both land and sea areas totaling 4.1 million hectares.
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"Local communities will be able to see how their government officials are managing forest resources, protected areas," Joshi said.
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The group discovered various illegal mines, and used the evidence to help prevent them from moving into protected areas.
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It would permanently alter dozens of National Wildlife Refuges, National Seashores, state-protected areas, and ecologically important marine areas.
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The goal was to help Fennessy in a conservation effort where he relocates giraffes into parks or protected areas.
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The dry weather conditions prompted the province to issue a fire ban for parks and protected areas on Thursday.
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Many of these protected areas are near populous urban centers and offer children a first dose of wild America.
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Over the years, the Brazilian government has developed a system of protected areas for ecological protection and indigenous reserves.
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Much of the surge in production in West Africa has come from the encroachment of cocoa into protected areas.
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And this week, my native Brazil announced that it would establish two major protected areas in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Diplomats at the United Nations will start treaty negotiations to create marine protected areas in waters beyond national jurisdiction.
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If corridors between forest patches and buffer zones around protected areas are safeguarded, both humans and animals could thrive.
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Largely in developed countries, threats from recreational activities occurred in 55 percent of the protected areas, the report also showed.
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Colonial conservation practices continue to displace indigenous peoples from their land in order to establish protected areas or game reserves.
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Merely allowing mining near protected areas could generate conflict and put them under threat, WWF and Greenpeace said in statements.
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Covering 50,000 square km, the Selous Game Reserve is one of the largest protected areas in Africa, according to UNESCO.
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"In the center and north of the country, most of the protected areas have forest disturbance in them," says Hansen.
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But about 30 percent live in non-protected areas interspersed with farmland, as did the once-deadly tigress T-1.
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His action protected areas sacred to American Indian tribes but also prevented any potential development, like oil and gas drilling.
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Marine protected areas are also causing "serious concern", said the report, with the majority of their shorelines are being eroded.
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It also created protected areas in zones of land conflict as a means to tamp down rampant fire and deforestation.
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The wildlife service managed to capture the stray lions in the first two incidents and returned them to protected areas.
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Covering 50,000 sq km, the Selous Game Reserve is one of the largest protected areas in Africa, according to UNESCO.
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More than 5 percent of the world's oceans are now Marine Protected Areas, up from 1 percent a decade ago.
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Op-Ed Contributor SAN FRANCISCO — I have spent my entire life pushing for new protected areas in the world's oceans.
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Environmental archives revealed that since the early 1900s, five legal changes to the park's protected areas were enacted or proposed.
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The polio virus, once thought to verge on eradication, is one of the most contagious diseases in inadequately protected areas.
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The country also expanded its protected areas and promoted nationwide campaigns to educate people on how to prevent accidental fires.
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"We need to protect more habitats around the world, we need to establish more national parks, and more protected areas."
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He found that the concentration of tigers outside the protected parks was 70 percent lower than in the protected areas.
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But this trend is not confined to one part of the island, and everywhere protected areas are coming under threat.
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But governments' reluctance to establish Marine Protected Areas isn't the biggest challenge to actually achieving the 30 percent by 2030 target.
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Between 23 and 70, more than 227,240 snares were removed by patrol teams from just five protected areas in the region.
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For humans who enjoy the protected areas and the local plant and animal species dependent on this ecosystem, it's bad news.
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What they did: The researchers looked at 3,585 protected areas, and cross-referenced them with instances of conflict from 1946-2010.
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Conservationists need to use this breathing space to create new protected areas and promote land-use planning in environmentally critical regions.
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That is more than all formally protected areas on the continent combined, exceeding the total national park area by 22 percent.
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The unbroken expanses of protected areas form a buffer and matrix for wilderness, for ecologically sensitive springs, for Native sacred sites.
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The same techniques have been used to control rats and other predators in protected areas on New Zealand's two main islands.
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We can invest in green infrastructure to restore and preserve our coastal ecosystems, including wetlands, coastal dunes, and marine protected areas.
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New Deal programs like the Civilian Conservation Corps provided workers to build roads, observation towers and canals in the protected areas.
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"Even if they did it, why would they feed the animals in protected areas where they cannot shoot them?" he said.
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Scientists have discovered a 75 percent drop in the number of flying insects in protected areas of Germany since the 1980s.
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He was also pushing for oil and gas extraction in protected areas and proposing hydroelectric dams that would displace native communities.
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The standard strategy is to designate protected areas in remote regions where the cost and the inconvenience to humans is minimal.
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Protected areas that are not adequately managed inevitably succumb to poaching, illegal livestock incursions, land grabs and illegal mining and logging.
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Not least, creating protected areas can also allow vulnerable species to spawn and migrate, including to areas where fishing is allowed.
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About a third of them would be located in protected areas, the campaign groups RiverWatch and EuroNatur said in a study.
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"A decision (to reduce the size of protected areas)... will not cause any environmental impact," he wrote on his Facebook page.
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Stolen, that is, from national parks, protected areas and the lands of indigenous communities, whose leaders risked assassination if they resisted.
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" Another review, which asked if tourism to parks and protected areas boosted local incomes, found that "measurable progress has been rare.
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You can filter for marine protected areas, filter for where fishing is restricted, analyze fishing in Indonesia, and change the colors.
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As authorities prioritized conservation, more than 250,000 people were evicted from protected areas in 15 countries from 1990 to 2014, RRI estimated.
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Some protected areas, including those in the Amazon rainforest, allow indigenous groups and other communities to live on the land, Lobo said.
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Fragmentation also threatens large migratory species, as smaller pockets of protected areas often cannot support sustainable populations of large herbivores and carnivores.
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Cheetahs require a vast amounts of land to roam, and they often stray outside the boundaries of protected areas into nearby farmland.
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Japan wants to avoid kicking off bilateral FTA talks for fear of being pressured into opening up highly protected areas like agriculture.
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The government issued a decree in 1993 to set up "protected areas" as a way to preserve land, forests and coastal zones.
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PPRA imposes requirements on schools that administer third-party surveys asking questions from any of eight protected areas — including religion and income.
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"Establishing new protected areas and parks could help, but we are losing wilderness faster than new parks are being established," he says.
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In West and Central Africa in particular, the killing now takes place almost entirely within national parks and other ostensibly protected areas.
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Unfortunately, only a few countries in Africa have the tax base or the political will to maintain and patrol protected areas effectively.
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Adrian led the state's efforts to manage California's network of marine protected areas, and she cared deeply about the ocean and biodiversity.
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Reduced oxygen concentrations in the ocean - one consequence of global warming - will make marine protected areas uninhabitable to most species, they argued.
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Sheepherders lost just 0.02 percent of the sheep population in those protected areas, the lowest loss rate among sheep-wolf areas statewide.
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Today, many local communities experience some trickle-down from poaching, while attitudes are generally negative towards private game owners and protected areas.
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Africa currently receives around $51 billion in annual development aid — about 200 times more than it does for supporting its protected areas.
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Since his election, Jair Bolsonaro has made good on his promises to open formerly protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon to development.
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Local communities have been marginalized in obtaining resources from wildlife conservation, while poverty and population growth increasingly push them into protected areas.
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There are over 2202,2628 marine protected areas in the U.S. covering 28500 percent of marine waters, which include marine monuments and sanctuaries.
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The effort to have 30 percent of the world's oceans protected with Marine Protected Areas needs to be implemented and perhaps expanded.
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But many have already opposed agreements on Marine Protected Areas in the Southern Oceans, areas much smaller than predicted blue-carbon sites.
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The BBNJ will include guidelines for designating new marine protected areas, where commercial fishing is limited, and for sharing marine genetic resources.
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Other commitments Warren pledges are familiar environmental and ocean cleanup efforts, such as ending offshore drilling and expanding designated marine protected areas.
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Bolsonaro has railed against environmental fines for farmers and called for indigenous reserves and other protected areas to be opened up for development.
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The authors urged better safeguards for deep reefs, for instance by expanding protected areas and banning bottom trawlers that can scrape the seabed.
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Rodriguez said Villanueva's troubles arise from the way many of Costa Rica's protected areas were created in the 1980s, which was "basically improvised".
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The eight-judge bench ruled unanimously that using the provisional measure to reduce the size of protected areas for any reason was unconstitutional.
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Once the region is properly analyzed and mapped, the researchers call for the creation of marine protected areas in places like the reef.
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He has railed against environmental fines for farmers and called for indigenous reserves and other protected areas to be opened up for development.
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A lot of people have been focused on remote islands, asking 'How can we create protected areas and preserve the most pristine places?
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Among recommendations, countries should improve assessment and management of protected areas, and try where possible to connect them so threatened species can migrate.
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Democrats and environmentalists have fought the review of national monuments tooth and nail, arguing that any reductions in protected areas would be harmful.
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From Hawaii to Brazil to Britain, the establishment of large marine protected areas, thousands of square miles in size, is on the rise.
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Setting aside protected areas that amount to nothing but a rounding error in the range size of tunas won't protect them from overfishing.
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In more protected areas, like national parks, the number of people allowed in sensitive areas around sensitive species can be restricted, says Shannon.
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According the most comprehensive analysis of conservation funding to date, 22 percent of nearly 300 protected areas on the continent face funding shortfalls.
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There are hundreds of acres of wildlife refuges; in particular, the Missisquoi and Sand Bar protected areas are important stopovers for migratory birds.
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In Peru, for example, Rainforest Connection's surveillance systems detected logging activity outside the boundaries of the protected areas where local rangers had jurisdiction.
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According to your own government studies, many of the people in some of these protected areas came in after the park was created.
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There are more than 6900,2628 marine protected areas in the U.S. covering 28503 percent of marine waters, which include marine monuments and sanctuaries.
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Democrats and environmentalists have fought the review of national monuments tooth and nail, arguing that any reductions in protected areas would be harmful.
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Some Utah county officials welcome a reduction in the size of the monuments, which they say has restricted road access to protected areas.
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The resolution, which calls for developing marine protected areas and environmental impact assessments, lays the groundwork for creating stronger high seas conservation measures.
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Ten researchers studied data collected over the last decade by managers at about 2,000 protected areas, including untouched forests and national parks or reserves.
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They found that hunting posed the biggest threat in developing countries, while recreational activities were most damaging to protected areas in more affluent nations.
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The study was carried out by the WWF in partnership with Mexico's National Autonomous University, the National Commission for Natural Protected Areas and others.
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As of Wednesday, there were 94 fires burning inside protected areas in both the states containing the Amazon and the rest of the country.
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Requiring ships to carry transponders that report their position, for example, can reveal vessels that suspiciously avoid ports or dawdle in marine protected areas.
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"The announcement leaves me feeling a bit positive but my concern is still the level of active management of these protected areas," she said.
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Why it matters: Human disturbances are supposed to be reduced in these protected areas since they're specifically designed to be safe havens for biodiversity.
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A 27-year study published Wednesday in the journal PLOS One found there's been a massive drop in insects in protected areas in Germany.
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The newest protected areas include sacred sites important to Native American tribes who have fought for the land, water and wildlife there for generations.
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For now, conservationists say, the international community needs to continue protecting saigas through proven strategies like cracking down on poaching and expanding protected areas.
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Creating highly and fully protected areas not only helps protect habitats and wildlife, but will enhance the resilience of ocean ecosystems to climate change.
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Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro has supported opening up protected areas of the Amazon to facilitate agriculture and mining since he took office in January.
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But many protected areas fall short, according to a report in the journal Science led by researchers at the University of Queensland in Australia.
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On the bright side, this doesn't impact species living in larger protected areas, because the cats were killing prey in urban and suburban habitats.
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Research has shown that noise pollution has doubled the background sound levels in more than 60 percent of protected areas in the United States.
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"Adrian led the state's efforts to manage California's network of marine protected areas, and she cared deeply about the ocean and biodiversity," Newsom said.
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A better knowledge of how elephants find and make decisions about food may result in more effective approaches to keeping them in protected areas.
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In Kenya, for example, power lines are being installed at breakneck speed, often in protected areas and along major pathways used by migratory birds.
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Some of that involves basic conservation, turning vulnerable forests and grasslands into protected areas and reserves — particularly the most ecologically valuable or irreplaceable areas.
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Noting that some "protected areas" — like parks and wildlife refuges — inadequately safeguard biodiversity, he discourages setting acreage goals for conserving the world's diminishing biodiversity.
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There is also the question of whether the intended conservation recipients —the poor local communities, landowners and protected areas — actually get the hunting revenues.
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To clean up the oceans, Warren calls for expanding marine protected areas, which are sanctuaries where most commercial fishing and other activities are banned.
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"We were in one of the most pristine, protected areas of Florida, and now this is going on," she said in a phone interview.
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In August 2015, the Malawi Department of National Parks enlisted the help of African Parks, a nonprofit that specializes in rehabilitating struggling protected areas.
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But the authority to manage marine protected areas beyond national jurisdiction lies with the intergovernmental sectoral organizations that share a stake in the area.
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Much of the region has never been heavily populated, and over the years, several large swaths of land have been designated as protected areas.
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Matthew Nowak, one of the study&aposs authors, said the Tapanuli orangutans live in three pockets of forest that are separated by non-protected areas.
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While both strategies proved more effective for maintaining rainforest than non-protected areas, those managed by locals fared better than government-administered land, it found.
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Galapagos, after all, is one of the most protected areas in the world, and only a small percentage of the land is dedicated to agriculture.
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A third of all protected areas carry a human footprint at least as deep as that of pastureland; "paper parks", existing in name only, abound.
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"While we're very excited about this we don't want it to become a precedent for other marine protected areas in the Southern Ocean," he said.
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Easing regulations and opening up environmentally protected areas to resource extraction could hurt prices and therefore jobs by adding to the already-existing supply glut.
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Now we have basically guaranteed clean water because we created protected areas around the river bed so toxins and stuff couldn't go in the water.
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The new protected areas were designated last year to create "shields" on the frontline of expansion of timber cutting and agribusiness industries in the Amazon.
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A new study in the May 5 issue of Science Magazine shows that human noise pollution has doubled in 63 percent of U.S. protected areas.
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Some things to consider: This study only looked at protected areas, because "we don't have good data on what's happening outside of them," says Daskin.
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The government and the UN refugee agency have managed so far to provide basic essentials and to settle the refugees in protected areas, Chanda said.
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"It's been a pretty bleak history in terms of relationship with Indigenous people," said Rob Prosper, Parks Canada vice-president of protected areas and conservation.
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But now inner-city residents have been moved to the outskirts, protected areas developed and mega-projects favoured over more sensible bits of urban planning.
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As miners, they often live outside the law, digging for ore on land without permission or government permits, sometimes in national parks and protected areas.
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The proposal to remove nearly 600,000 hectares of forest from three protected areas in the Amazon and Atlantic rainforest has been approved by Brazil's Senate.
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Lawmakers who back the move say South America's largest country has plenty of protected areas and the country needs to open up land for development.
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"The first thing you need to do is conserve them in the wild, so we need to improve the management of protected areas," Davis said.
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Overall, he continued, the country is permitting too many visitors into protected areas such as Corcovado National Park, where much of his work is focused.
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SANBI drew on studies and data from a number of sources but Donaldson said most was from protected areas and national parks, not private lands.
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On a positive note, the average human footprint within protected areas was almost 50% lower than the global mean for all types of land areas.
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A 2015 analysis estimated that effectively managing the more than 250 most important public protected areas for Africa's cats would cost $1.25 billion a year.
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Their final list encompassed 5003 populations of 36 species of herbivorous mammals — including elephants, giraffes, zebras, hippos and wildebeests — in 126 protected areas throughout Africa.
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In these protected areas, you can wander under a splatter of stars and grapple with the evidence of your own insignificance in a vast universe.
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The numbers were stark, indicating a vast impoverishment of an entire insect universe, even in protected areas where insects ought to be under less stress.
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For a graphic version of this story, click: here The armed men said residents could mine in the protected areas, but there would be conditions.
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But preventing new deforestation, the report found, could cut carbon emissions from future fires in half and prevent the blazes from spreading into protected areas.
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The park is contiguous with other large protected areas, including the Pasayten Wilderness, Mount Baker Wilderness, Glacier Peak Wilderness, and Lake Chelan National Recreation Area.
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You can create as many marine protected areas as you like -- but their GPS-defined boundaries are no barrier to warmer and more acidic water.
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Research shows that cheetahs find it harder to produce cubs in areas that receive a lot of tourists, even if they&aposre in protected areas.
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Even if it were rerouted around the national park, the road would open up a number of protected areas to increased logging, farming and hunting.
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The National Council for Protected Areas (CONAP) maintained a few scattered posts in the fringe of forest on the eastern edge of Laguna del Tigre.
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The key chart is below, showing coral recovery in places within marine protected areas that ban fishing (in green) versus those without protection (in red).
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Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro has supported opening up protected areas of the world's largest tropical rainforest to facilitate agriculture and mining since taking office in January.
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Rob Pringle and Joshua Daskin, ecologists at Princeton and Yale Universites, studied 35 populations of large herbivores in protected areas across Africa from 1946 to 2010.
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Now, he says, they fear their way of life is under threat as the government declares swathes of forest in indigenous Karen homelands as protected areas.
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The researchers looked at other factors that could influence wildlife abundance, like unstable governments, but warfare remained the best predictor of wildlife declines in protected areas.
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Providing weekly updates on logging and resource projects can help improve local governance, he said, as governments will have documented evidence when protected areas are violated.
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Dahood-Fritz was a senior environmental scientist serving on the California Ocean Protection Council, where she overlooked and helped marine protected areas, the LA Times reported.
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Mexico, Palau, Britain and, most recently, the Seychelles have also set aside protected areas in their waters but have allowed some fishing to continue as before.
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In the meantime, we can help these animals by supporting the creation of more protected areas in the ocean, like the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary.
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In Congress, a large coalition known as the ruralist bloc has championed scores of measures to ease access to minerals and potential farmland in protected areas.
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So, in addition to advocating the expansion of protected areas, the authors outline a vast array of changes aimed at limiting the drivers of biodiversity loss.
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In its 30-year history, the association has designated more than 60 International Dark Sky Parks in protected areas, such as the Grand Canyon National Park.
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Many of America's early protected areas, including Yellowstone and Yosemite, were for years after they were established "paper parks," where mining and similar intrusions were allowed.
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"It's essential that local communities, governments and the international public continue working to establish marine protected areas to help ensure our ocean's biodiversity continues to flourish."
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In June, Timothy Gallaudet, Acting Administrator of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, suggested reducing the seafood trade deficit by allowing commercial fishing in marine protected areas.
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From 2004 to 2012, the country created new conservation areas, increased monitoring and took away government credits from rural producers who were caught razing protected areas.
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From 2004 to 2012, the country created new conservation areas, increased monitoring and took away government credits from rural producers who were caught razing protected areas.
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Indigenous communities and local residents manage about a third of all forests in developing countries - more than twice the share in government-protected areas, Blackman said.
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The reductions erase efforts to preserve massive swaths of land from Presidents Obama and Clinton, and represent the largest-ever rollback of protected areas in history.
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His enormous reductions in Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments were the single largest elimination of protected areas in the history of our country.
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According to research by Peter Lindsey and colleagues in the Wildlife Conservation Network, roughly 21 percent of protected areas within lion range face severe budget shortfalls.
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"Nevertheless, conflicts related to protected areas, land-grabbing, tenure and benefit sharing, are prevalent in the region and may be exacerbated by climate change," it said.
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Ecuador was the first nation to explicitly protect the rights of nature in its constitution, which prohibits the extraction of nonrenewable resources like oil from protected areas.
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The intent, he gradually realized, was to launder timber that had already been illegally cut elsewhere—places like national parks, indigenous community lands, and other protected areas.
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PetroSeychelles' head Patrick Joseph told Reuters that no explorers had shown an interest in the protected areas, but that he was unsure such stringent protection was necessary.
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The findings of the two-year study will be made available to managers at protected areas so they can develop better ways to protect and maintain them.
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"Including these new protected areas, we will protect about 25 percent of Brazilian waters, far exceeding the targets we committed to before the United Nations," Temer said.
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The dramatic population decline from one of Central Africa's largest, most remote protected areas "is a startling warning that no place is safe from poaching," he added.
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Wonder. Julian Bayliss (biodiversity and protected areas specialist, professor at Oxford Brookes University): I started systematically going across Northern Mozambique, scanning it using Google Earth satellite imagery.
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After retiring from a 30 year career in the arts as an independent producer, he has launched a mission to design posters of all major protected areas.
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