scholarly journals Forest visitors’ opinion of recreational facilities and trails in forests in the Blaník Protected Landscape Area – a case study

2013 ◽  
Vol 59 (No. 5) ◽  
pp. 185-190
Author(s):  
A. Drábková ◽  
L. Šišák
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Questionnaire Survey ◽  
Protected Area ◽  
Recreational Facilities ◽  
Recreational Area ◽  
Scarce Data

Currently, recreation is the most common use of protected areas and there are scarce data on the users and their opinion. The research was focused on visitors to the Blaník Protected Landscape Area (hereafter referred to as PLA), a well-known recreational area where data on visitors, important for PLA management, are missing. Therefore, the aim of the paper is find out: what kind of visitors comes to the study area; the type of forest trails and tourist facilities the visitors prefer. A questionnaire survey of forest visitors was used. Results show that the visitors mostly prefer maintained trails. According to forest visitors’ opinion, the most convenient facility to place near the forest tourist trail is the nature trail panels. Furthermore, based on the acquired data, it was possible to create a visitor’s profile which is important for respective research and other case studies in similar areas, and for managers of protected landscape areas to comply with both the visitors’ needs and the needs of the protected area.  

scholarly journals Assessing the effectiveness of Madagascar’s changing protected areas system: a case study of threatened Boraginales

Oryx ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
James S. Miller ◽  
Holly A. Porter Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Protected Area ◽  
Native Species ◽  
Plant Conservation ◽  
Iucn Red List ◽  
Red List ◽  
Iucn Red List Categories ◽  
System A ◽  
Red List Categories

AbstractThreat analyses of the Boraginales were conducted and used to assess the effectiveness of Madagascar’s current and proposed protected area systems in conserving the threatened species of a group of plants widespread in Madagascar. Specimen locality data for 52 species of four families of Boraginales were analysed to provisionally assign species to IUCN Red List categories. Six species were excluded from these global analyses as they are non-native and introduced. IUCN’s criterion B, analysis of geographical range, was found to be the most reliable means of estimating threat, and predicted future decline was found to overestimate threat. Twenty-six of the 46 native species of Boraginales were found to be threatened. Sixty-five percent of these have portions of their ranges in the 2002 protected areas system. When the protected areas system was expanded in 2006 the percentage of species with some protected populations increased to 78%. More than 93% would be protected if a series of proposed priority areas for plant conservation were protected. The implications of these analyses for the conservation of plant species in Madagascar are discussed.

Public–Private Partnerships in Ecotourism Development in Protected Areas: A Case Study of Tunkinsky National Park in Russia

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 1700
Author(s):  
Lyudmila MAKSANOVA ◽  
Sembrika IVANOVA ◽  
Darima BUDAEVA ◽  
Alyona ANDREEVA
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Protected Area ◽  
National Park ◽  
Protected Area Management ◽  
Public Private Partnerships ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Private Partnership ◽  
Potential Demand

This paper discusses the opportunities offered by public–private partnerships in developing ecotourism infrastructure in protected areas. The paper also addresses the issues contributing to threats and conflicts while implementing infrastructure projects. In order to fulfil research objectives, the authors employ a sociological instrument. Using a snowball method, the authors selected 34 experts with professional competencies in tourism development, natural resource management, protected area management, and public-private partnerships. The results of this study demonstrate a potential demand for the mechanisms of public-private partnerships when developing ecotourism infrastructure. Using the case study of Tunkinsky National Park, the authors identified potential threats and conflicts in the process of preparation and delivery of public-private partnership projects for ecotourism infrastructure development.

scholarly journals TRADITIONAL PEOPLE, PROTECTED AREAS AND TOURISM: A 15-YEAR BRAZILIAN CASE STUDY OF CULTURAL CHANGE

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
Author(s):  
LAURA SINAY ◽  
MARIA CRISTINA FOGLIATTI DE SINAY ◽  
RODNEY WILLIAM (BILL) CARTER ◽  
FÁBIO VINÍCIUS DE ARAÚJO PASSOS
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
Traditional Knowledge ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Protected Area ◽  
Community Living ◽  
Year 2000 ◽  
Participatory Observation ◽  
Brazilian Case

Abstract For decades, conservation initiatives considered the protection of nature and human progress to be mutually exclusive. As a result of this paradigm, communities living within protected areas often were displaced or treated as invaders and criminals in their ancestral territories. Consequently, much cultural heritage, including traditional knowledge, has been lost. In part to prevent cultural loss, in the year 2000, Brazil legally acknowledged within Federal Act 9,985 the rights, knowledge and way of living of traditional people as integral for the conservation of nature. Based on the case of the traditional Caiçara community living at Martin de Sá (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), this study showcases fifteen years of cultural change influenced, among others, by the implementation of protected area policy and growth in tourism. Participatory observation between 2000 and 2015 identified changes to the community’s way of thinking, lifestyle and livelihoods. Strategies are proposed to increase cultural protection.

scholarly journals Disturbances-based plan of delineating protected area’s buffer zone: A case study in Masigit Kareumbi Mountain, West Java, Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elham Sumarga ◽  
Ichsan Suwandhi ◽  
Hairatunnisa HAIRATUNNISA ◽  
Dwi Susilowardani ◽  
Adenna Yuska Nurrahman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Protected Area ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
Satellite Image ◽  
Fire Risk ◽  
Buffer Zone ◽  
West Java ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Mountain West

Abstract. Sumarga E, Swandhi I, Hairatunnisa, Susilowardani D, Nurrahman AY, Sadida A. 2021. Disturbances-based plan of delineating protected area’s buffer zone: A case study in Masigit Kareumbi Mountain, West Java, Indonesia. Biodiversitas 22: 5115-5122. The harmony between ecosystems and people, particularly those who live around and inside protected areas, is a key factor for the success of ecosystem protection. This subsequently will ensure the maintenance of ecosystem capacity in providing different types of services. Unfortunately, human activities are still commonly linked to different types of disturbances inside protected areas. This study aims to spatially analyze the anthropogenic disturbances inside a protected area, with a case study in Mount Masigit Kareumbi Protected Area, Indonesia. Two types of disturbances, which can be directly and indirectly related to human intervention, are analyzed, i.e., fires and encroachment for agricultural purposes. This study used Maximum Enthropy (MaxEnt) to analyze the risk of forest fire, while the encroachment was analyzed based on a combination of satellite image interpretation and direct field observation. Fire risk modeling performed well with a mean AUC of 0.98, estimating high fire risk (fire probability more than 0.5) distributed in about 109 ha area inside the Mount Masigit Kareumbi Protected Area. This study also identified about 428 ha of forest encroachment inside the protected area. This study further used the spatial information of the disturbances to determine the priority for selecting and designing areas for buffer zone development.

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