There are limitations of decentralization with respect to formal protected areas. However, conflict can be reduced if the role of protected areas in the landscape becomes the focus of national conservation strategies rather than simply increasing the number of protected areas.

This area is divided into a total of 157 protected areas.

Ratio of area protected to maintain biological diversity to surface areas

The landscape is covered mostly (86 of land area) by coniferous taiga forests and fens, with little cultivated land.

This is an area of classical glaciokarstic landscape, with numerous glacial trough valleys and cirques, with ridges and peaks between them.

An armoured squadron and a helicopter flight unit will be based in the United Nations Protected Area.

This is a protected and isolated area, having been kept closed by the Soviet Union since 1944.

Since the hollow is a protected area, many ancient species extinct in other regions have found refuge here.

This interaction between the natural landscape and humans creates the cultural landscape.

Two of the Antarctic Specially Protected Areas for which a revised management plan was adopted in 2003 covered solely marine areas, which was a significant development in the Antarctic protected area system.

Recent work in this area has, for example, adopted the term collective biocultural heritage to describe the protected subject matter.

Forests had been planted over an area exceeding 100,000 hectares and nearly 500,000 hectares of natural forests were systematically protected.

Only 17,000 km2 (6,600 sq mi) or 3 of the island's land area is protected and due to dire economic conditions and political instability, most of the protected areas are ineffectively managed and defended.

An extensive geological survey was carried out in the Prince Charles Mountains that will provide information on the recent uplift and landscape evolution in that area.

The most famous protected area and the oldest national park in Croatia is the Plitvice Lakes National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

These relationships could include the incorporation of the protected area in the excursions and holiday package, measures to raise the awareness of the tourists before their arrival in the area and direct financial contributions.

Knowledge transfer in landscape ecology By knowledge transfer in landscape ecology, means a group of activities that increase the understanding of landscape ecology with the goal of encouraging application of this knowledge.

This shows you a patent landscape.

This is our landscape of food.

Primarily for this reason the city has been included, together with the surrounding territory, in an area protected by the UNESCO World Heritage program.

Bolivia designated wetlands larger than the size of Switzerland as a freshwater protected area in 2001 these are also home to the giant otter.

Biological diversity. Substantial progress has been made in establishing protected area networks in all regions of the world to prevent loss of forest biological diversity.

Systematic archaeological studies of the area, however, have been carried out since 1988 by the research group Social Structure and Territory Landscape Archaeology of the Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC).

Edward Burtynsky photographs the landscape of oil

You may have seen this in other forms, but the top line is the amount of protected area on land, globally, and it's about 12 percent.

The Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA) is located in the Republic of Kiribati, an ocean nation in the central Pacific approximately midway between Australia and Hawaii.

PIPA constitutes 11.34 of Kiribati s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) and with a size of it is the largest marine protected area (MPA) in the Pacific Ocean.

The landscape covered by the district is called Oberschwäbisches Hügelland and Westallgäuer Hügelland , and as the name suggests it is mostly hilly landscape.

Increase significantly the area of protected forests worldwide and other areas of sustainably managed forests, as well as the proportion of forest products from sustainably managed forests

The land of Asmat is located both within and adjacent to Lorentz National Park and World Heritage Site, the largest protected area in the Asia Pacific region.

The main headquarters of the mission, which was located at Nicosia since the inception of UNFICYP, will continue to be based in the United Nations Protected Area, Nicosia.

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This was that Minefields were to be Monitored By Military Personnel or Protected By Fencing Or Other Means To Ensure The Effective Exclusion Of Civilians From The Area .

Our fractured landscape for energy governance was not planned.

Russia s invasion of Georgia has reshaped the strategic landscape.

the landscape is much more nuanced, and highly personalized.

Layla protected Sami.

And all the sort of excess freshwater wastewater is filtered organically into the landscape, gradually transforming the desert island into sort of a green, lush landscape.

National parks and other protected areas are not adequately protected by law enforcement agencies.

And in general, children are protected and expected to be protected and kept safe.

Citizens organized sit ins across the whole landscape of Pakistan.

Landscape Azerbaijan is home to a vast variety of landscapes.

The change from and protected by fencing to or protected by fencing opened up discussion.

The Republic of Kiribati, in partnership with the non governmental conservation organizations Conservation International and the New England Aquarium, has formed the Phoenix Island Protected Area Conservation Trust (PIPA Trust).

TEEB has more than a dozen separate groups of solutions including protected area evaluation and payments for ecosystem services and eco certification and you name it, but these are the favorites.