Protected Areas 474 000

The white areas on this map are the places protected from the winter winds.

Regulations to enhance the coverage of protected areas would ensure the transfer and adoption of suitable protected area management practices.

Furthermore, the level to which tourism contributes to the conservation of protected areas also depends on the ability of protected areas managers' to set up fruitful relationships with the private sector.

Marine Protected Areas Are Cost Effective

The Alpine Network of Protected Areas has engaged in a partnership with the managers of mountain protected areas in the neighbouring Carpathians. The partnership, supported by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), is aimed at the establishment of the Carpathian network of protected areas.

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.

The extent of protected areas will triple within five years.

development of the resources of protected areas in the Central American isthmus

Because with marine protected areas, we actually recreate the past.

Protected areas are increasingly valuable tourism products what forms of additional protection within and outside protected areas would be needed to prevent tourism from generating additional impacts?

MPAs are proven to also contribute significantly to local economies.

Here's the Pacific with large MPAs and large conservation zones on it.

During the discussions, there were diverging views as to the use and effectiveness of marine protected areas.

Land conflicts with protected areas, land conflicts with logging and production forests

Those systems, however, are more easily amenable to the establishment of protected areas.

Congo has five of the world's richest sites of protected area, and the Okapi Faunal Reserve is one of them.

Population trends are stable in well protected areas, and are rebuilding in a few areas which had been neglected.

Numerous countries use Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) to protect critical breeding grounds and migration routes for marine life.

(q) Assess the conditions and management effectiveness of existing protected forest areas with a view to identifying improvements needed

Habitat corridors are needed for linking these protected areas so that small populations are not isolated.

Yet others referred to the difficulties regarding the enforcement of such protected areas in the high seas.

Saudi Arabia explains that it will not be able to adequately manage its existing protected areas with its own funds.

Well, there are a couple estimates of how much it would cost to create a network of protected areas covering 20 percent of the ocean that would be only a fraction of what we are now paying the government hands out to a fishery that is collapsing.

I worked in other parts of New Zealand as well, in beautiful, fragile, protected areas

He called them electrics.

A generator.

Protected areas provide hope that the creatures of Ed Wilson's dream of an encyclopedia of life, or the census of marine life, will live not just as a list, a photograph, or a paragraph.

The island has several protected areas, including Cabrits National Park, as well as 365 rivers.

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

During the discussions, diverging views were expressed as to the use and effectiveness of marine protected areas (see also para. 44 above).

To respond to this emerging issue, nine of the world's leading hotel companies have come together, through the International Business Leaders Forum, to work with Conservation International to consider the issue of sustainable hotel siting, design and construction.

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.

Government policies could then focus on training protected areas managers in such areas a how to develop tourism facilities that marry quality and environmental considerations, interpretation programmes, congestion management strategies and tools, setting up effective entrance fee systems etc.

Such areas not only permit the regeneration of species, but also provide ecological benefits that spill over to neighboring unprotected areas.

Oh, the bottom of this box has electricity in here, but this doesn't have electricity.

But the ocean protected area is basically flat line until right about now it appears to be ticking up.

(p) Create, develop or expand, and maintain networks of protected forest areas, taking into account the importance of conserving representative forests, by means of a range of conservation mechanisms, applied within and outside protected forest areas

Light is converted to electricity on them.

It's an unpaid electric light bill?

First, the house. I want electricity.

Why is there no electricity?

I know. There's no electricity.

Some delegations referred to the call in the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation to establish a representative network of high seas protected areas and expressed their support for exploring the potential for them, stating that they were a flexible tool that could be constructed to achieve a wide range of outcomes.

The Committee on Fisheries briefly addressed the issue of marine protected areas, recognizing that such areas could be useful as fisheries management tools if specifically designed through acceptable processes.