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Australia's rich and distinct biodiversity is under multiple threats including loss of habitat to human settlement, agriculture and grazing, introduction and spread of alien invasives, pollution, altered fire regimes and landclearing. The landclearing rate of c. 500,000 hectares p.a. is comparable to the worst African, South American and Asian de-forestation rates, much occurring on private lands. This paper gives a brief survey of the ecological and social factors driving the increasing emphasis on private lands in the national biodiversity effort. It also reviews some of the key mechanisms being explored to augment the formal parks system to stem the decline and result in long-term biodiversity gains. With a huge range of programmes and mechanisms being trialed, this paper presents a comprehensive overview

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Communication and co-operation among all conservation bodies and concerned individuals are vital to effective conservation and to securing the funding and other resources needed. Only by forming productive links among all protected area organisations and initiatives in the region can the aim of the East Asia Action Plan be realised. This Directory, valid as at 31 July 2000, is intended to facilitate this networking and capacity building by providing contacts in three sections: People, Organisations and Places.

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The East Asia Action Plan (IUCN, 1996) recommended exchange programmes as a means of improving protected area management capacity in the East Asia region. The experience of exchange programmmes from around the world shows that they can bring great benefits when executed and managed effectively.

This report reviews and summarizes past experience world-wide in protected area-related exchange programmes, and analyzes its relevance to East Asia. A ten-stage planning process that can be adapted for use at the local, national and regional scale and a strategy for introducing protected area exchange programmes into East Asia are recommended

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These guidelines address one of the most critical issues which protected area planners and managers face in the East Asia region: obtaining the funds needed to ensure the survival and success of protected areas.

The publication explains how protected areas can generate more finance to help meet their needs, and contains brief case studies. It also includes a list of potential funding sources in the region. It is hoped that the advice available in these guidelines will provide protected areas managers in East Asia with some of the tools and knowledge that they require to improve the financial ‘bottom line’ of their protected areas and protected area systems

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This publication provides a collection of material useful to planners and managers of parks and protected areas in East Asia. It has been designed to help them think about the influx of tourism to natural protected areas, and to urge them to consciously plan for management of the interactions of tourists and the natural and cultural environment. General suggestions have been made that each jurisdiction and park can use when developing their own approaches to policy development, funding, implementation and management. Local communities, private tourism operators and land-use planners will also be able to use various sections of this document to assist their practices in being more sustainable

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The Iron Curtain, running from the Barents Sea to the Black Sea, divided Europe for almost 40 years and no activity was allowed in this "forbidden" zone. When it fell in 1989, it left a strip of land that runs the entire length of Europe and that has remained comparatively undisturbed – a green belt.

The Green Belt initiative aims to integrate this entire strip of land with its key habitats and ecological areas as part of an international network of valuable ecosystems. This book provides background information on the initiative, reviews current activities in a number of case studies and looks at how the initiative can fit into current and future global efforts to protect European biodiversity.

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The IUCN system for classifying protected areas distinguishes six management categories (I-VI).

This publication aims to further clarify how they can be interpreted within Europe, in order to help protected areas managers and others concerned with protected areas to apply the IUCN system more consistently to ensure reliable categorisation and data gathering

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This plan sets out the policies and actions needed to ensure an adequate, effective and well-managed network of protected areas in Europe.

It outlines how potential areas should be integrated with other sectors, such as agriculture, forestry and tourism; sets out priorities at European, sub-regional and national level; proposes actions to strengthen the legal framework, planning and management of Europe's protected areas, and explains how to create the public support necessary for success.

Over 200 individuals and institutions have contributed to what has become IUCN's largest-ever exercise in regional collaboration between government agencies, NGOs and the individual staff of protected areas.

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In 1994, IUCN launched Parks for life: Action for Protected Areas in Europe - a plan devised by IUCN with 200 partners to ensure an adequate, effective and well-managed network of protected areas in Europe.

In November 1997, some 150 protected area experts from 34 countries met to review progress and chart a course for future work.

Containing 11 papers and 6 workshop reports, emphasis is on the implementation of 5 priority projects : upgrading the management of Category II sites, identifying potential World Heritage sites, building cooperation in trans-boundary protected areas, restoring wetlands in protected areas and conserving land used by the military

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Arbritary national boundaries do not define the extent of landscapes and ecosystems worthy of protection. They do, however, influence the quality of nature conservation as this is affected by differences in national legislation on different sides of the border.

This study analyses the status of protected areas across various European State boundaries, lists successes and shortcomings, and gives valuable advise as to how co-operation between protected areas can be improved and enhanced

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• “Protected Area Seminars” 
• BISHKEK GLOBAL MOUNTAIN SUMMIT, KYRGYSTAN, OCTOBER 28-NOVEMBER 1ST 2002 , Summary report of the meeting Graeme Worboys, Vice Chair Mountains
• Protected Areas of Northern Eurasia: Development through Participation. Strategy and Action Plan (Russian)
• "Radical view for protected areas: non-material values of protected areas" (Russian) V. Boreyko 
• Bulletin on Transboundary Protected Areas , Two issues in Russian and English Valery Briniskh 
• Humanitarian Ecological Journal Three issues in Russian 
• "Historical and Cultural Sites in State Nature Zapovedniks"
  In Russian and English I. E. Matyushkin
• The Methods of Economical Evaluation of Biodiversity".
• The Theory and Practice of Evaluation Work - in Russian O. E. Medvedeva 

Este documento recoge el esfuerzo conjunto de organizaciones e investigadores provenientes de los cinco países andino-tropicales (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Perú y Venezuela)sobre la relación entre áreas protegidas y gobernanza ambiental. La primera parte del texto está dedicada a brindar una breve revisión acerca del origen, usos y connotaciones del concepto de gobernanza y su aplicación en las áreas protegidas (Capítulo 2); le sigue una sección con la definición y los elementos de la gobernanza en las áreas protegidas andino-tropicales (Capítulo 3); a continuación encontraremos un análisis comparativo entre los elementos de gobernanza identificados en los cinco países andinos (Capítulo 4); y finalmente presentamos una sección con conclusiones y recomendaciones puntuales (Capítulo 5).

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