scholarly journals Balancing housing growth and land conservation: Conservation development preserves private lands near protected areas

2017 ◽  
Vol 157 ◽  
pp. 598-607 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miranda H. Mockrin ◽  
Sarah E. Reed ◽  
Liba Pejchar ◽  
Salo Jessica
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Land Conservation ◽  
Private Lands ◽  
Housing Growth

scholarly journals Housing growth in and near United States protected areas limits their conservation value

2009 ◽  
Vol 107 (2) ◽  
pp. 940-945 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. C. Radeloff ◽  
S. I. Stewart ◽  
T. J. Hawbaker ◽  
U. Gimmi ◽  
A. M. Pidgeon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
Conservation Value ◽  
Housing Growth

Beyond protected areas: Private lands and public policy anchor intact pathways for multi-species wildlife migration

2019 ◽  
Vol 234 ◽  
pp. 18-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason D. Tack ◽  
Andrew F. Jakes ◽  
Paul F. Jones ◽  
Joseph T. Smith ◽  
Rebecca E. Newton ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
Private Lands ◽  
Wildlife Migration

scholarly journals The potential for voluntary instruments to achieve conservation planning goals: the case of conservancies in South Africa

Oryx ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 357-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Downsborough ◽  
Charlie M. Shackleton ◽  
Andrew T. Knight
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
South African ◽  
Conservation Planning ◽  
Nationwide Survey ◽  
Land Conservation ◽  
Private Land ◽  
Eastern Cape ◽  
Private Land Conservation ◽  
Effective Conservation

AbstractSpatial prioritizations and gap analyses are increasingly undertaken to allocate conservation resources. Most spatial prioritizations are conducted without specifying the conservation instruments to be implemented and gap analyses typically assess formally protected areas but increasingly include private land conservation instruments. We examine conservancies to see if these voluntary instruments contribute towards achieving goals of South African conservation planning initiatives. We conducted a nationwide survey and interviews with conservancy members in Gauteng and the Eastern Cape. Conservancies have potential for assisting South Africa to achieve conservation planning goals at national and local scales but their inclusion in spatial prioritizations and gap analyses predicates improved protection for nature, operational refinement and increased support. We sound a warning to conservation planning initiatives that incorporate voluntary instruments on private land, and present recommendations for strengthening such instruments to make them more effective. Our findings may assist conservation planners elsewhere to design more effective conservation planning initiatives focused on private land.

INCORPORATING PRIVATE LANDS IN CONSERVATION PLANNING: PROTECTED AREAS IN BRITAIN

2008 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 1050-1060 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah F. Jackson ◽  
Kevin J. Gaston
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Conservation Planning ◽  
Private Lands

scholarly journals How urban forest can support Protected Areas connectivity?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Pannunzio Ribeiro ◽  
Kaline de Mello ◽  
Roberta Averna Valente
Keyword(s):  
Graph Theory ◽  
Functional Connectivity ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Urban Forest ◽  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
Natural Ecosystem ◽  
Forest Fragments ◽  
Private Lands ◽  
Focal Species

Abstract The highly modified urban matrix becomes an inhospitable environment for many species because the natural vegetation fragments are highly fragmented and often isolated in the landscape. Protected Areas (PAs) located closer or within urban areas may not achieve their goal of protecting local or regional biodiversity. Thus, the proposition of ecological corridors aims to connect the PAs, providing the dispersion of species in anthropogenic landscapes. In this context, this study aimed to evaluate the PAs connectivity in an urban landscape and understand if urban forest fragments can support their connectivity, generating important information for biodiversity conservation and urban planning. For this, we used models based on Graph Theory to assess the functional connectivity among PAs. The focal species used were Atlantic Forest birds. We used the participatory technique to assess their dispersal capabilities, and this information was used to create a resistance surface map. The focal species movement in the landscape was modeled through Graph Theory. This model evaluated the functional connectivity and extracted the least-cost paths between PAs and other forest fragments that designed the urban ecological network. We identified that few PAs are connected in the urban landscape of Sorocaba city and its surroundings and 28 forest fragments that are important to support the connectivity among PAs. Among these, only four fragments are located within a PA. The other 24 forest fragments located outside PAs should be the center of attention for forest conservation and restoration actions, as they can improve the connectivity between the PAs. Our results show that PAs connectivity in urban landscapes depends on incentives for native vegetation conservation on private lands once most of the important forest fragments for the PAs connectivity are located in these areas. In addition, the restoration of riparian zones is important because they compose a great ecological corridor in the urban landscape. Strategies that increase the permeability of the matrix (e.g., increasing green spaces and gardens) and restoring target fragments are also important. Finally, land-use planning, focusing on natural ecosystem conservation and combating urban sprawl, is necessary to promote PAs connectivity in urban landscapes.

scholarly journals Protected areas and community incentives in savannah ecosystems: a case study of Tanzania’s Maasai Steppe

Oryx ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 390-398 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hassan Sachedina ◽  
Fred Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Wildlife Conservation ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Direct Payment ◽  
Benefit Sharing ◽  
Private Lands ◽  
Direct Income ◽  
Maasai Steppe

AbstractTwo issues of central importance to conservation are developing an improved understanding of the relative roles of state protected areas and local institutions and developing effective strategies for creating community-based incentives for conservation. We provide a case study of northern Tanzania’s Maasai Steppe to explore these issues in the context of a savannah ecosystem where wildlife is mobile and depends extensively on community lands for seasonal habitats. We compare the impacts and outcomes of four approaches to developing local incentives for wildlife conservation on community lands: protected area benefit-sharing, trophy hunting donations, village–private tourism concession contracts, and a direct payment scheme for habitat conservation. Tourism and direct payment concession areas have resulted in large areas of community land being protected for wildlife by villages as a result of the conditional and contractual nature of these ventures. By contrast, other approaches that provide economic benefits to communities but are not conditional on defined conservation actions at the local level demonstrate little impact on wildlife conservation on community lands. In spatially extensive ecosystems where protected areas cover limited areas and wildlife relies heavily on community and private lands, strategies based on maximizing the direct income of communities from wildlife are fundamental to the sustainability of such systems.

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