BACKGROUND How do national-level actions overlap with global priorities for conservation? Answering this question is especially important in countries with high and unique biological diversity like Colombia. Global biodiversity schemes provide conservation guidance at a large scale, while national governments gazette land for protection based on a combination of criteria at regional or local sc...

The Abshar protected area with 3639 ha and an altitude ranging from 400-855 m a.s.l. is one of the forest areas that due to its topography is covered by Carpinus betulus, Parrotia persica and Diospyros lotus speices. The floristic study of this area is long with sampling plots. The floristic-physiognomic investigation showed that flora of this region included 99 plant species which belonged to ...

The article focuses on the integrated environmental accounting model called ‘eValue’, developed for protected areas and applied in research programme coordinated by Italian Ministry of Environment aimed at implementing an system Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). eValue adopts a cost-benefit analysis approach. Financial based costs revenues is with accounting, which reflects revenues, i.e., benefit...