Protected areas remain a cornerstone for global conservation. However, their effectiveness at halting biodiversity decline is not fully understood. Studies of protected area benefits have largely focused on measuring their impact on halting deforestation and have neglected to measure the impacts of protected areas on other threats. Evaluations that measure the impact of protected area managemen...

a study was conducted to determine habitat suitability of goitred gazelle (gazella subgutturosa) in kalmand-bahadoran protected area during four seasons of year 2003-2004.the geographic position of dispersal points of gazelle herds was recorded with global position system. the data were transmitted into attributed tables in arc view software and their layers were created. the maps of slope, alt...

Conflicts between resource-dependent people and protected area managers abound in many developing countries. From the rural people's perspective, protected areas may contain valuable or necessary natural resources that are worth the effort, and risk of capture, to extract. From the protected area manager's perspective, the rural people's extraction of resources causes environmental degradation ...

The definition of protected areas as legal entities is not defined at the legislative level, which significantly reduces range tools for protecting corresponding territories from abuses and loopholes in current legislation regarding scope methods utilizing their natural potential. study focuses on an analysis concept “legal personality” Ukraine, considering requirements to address restoration p...