Biosphere reserves are protected areas vital for the preservation of living and inanimate nature, including protection anthropogenic values cultural heritage. The basins Mura, Drava, Danube rivers stretch through Slovenia, Croatia, Austria, Hungary, Serbia form a unique spatial unity. Reserve concept defines about 300,000 hectares core buffer zones around 700,000 transition zones. This large, p...

Sustainable agricultural development and land-use systems require the elaboration design of proper options, also land use changes for agro-ecosystems. This project aimed to assess shifts options major farming systems, if how biosphere reserve establishment its management have changed natural landscape components, and/or forest coverage Yayo Coffee Forest Biosphere Reserve. Focus group discussio...

Central America’s tropical forests have been felled more rapidly than those of any other world region during the latter half of the twentieth century. During this time, nearly half of Guatemala’s forests were eliminated. Most of this deforestation has been concentrated in the northern department of Petén. The remaining forests in Petén are now mainly concentrated in the Maya Biosphere Reserve (...