Acknowledgements ................................................ v
Contributors .................................................... v
Foreword ....................................................... vi
Key to regional maps ........................................... xi
Introduction ................................................. xiii
Dedication ..................................................... xv
1.History, definitions, values and
global perspective ............................................ 1
What is a protected area7 ..................................... 4
The global balance sheet: how many
protected areas ............................................... 9
Values and benefits of protected areas ....................... 14
Intangible values of protected areas ......................... 19
International dimensions ..................................... 21
Antarctica - a special case .................................. 32
A global review .............................................. 34
Figures
1.1. The 'human footprint' as a percentage
of human influence in every biome on
the Earth's land surface ................................. 2
1.2. Global growth in protected areas ........................ 11
1.3. Global growth in the number of protected areas .......... 11
1.4. The world's protected areas by region ................... 13
1.5. Global protected areas by IUCN Category ................. 14
1.6. Global protected areas, level of protection,
management and use ...................................... 14
1.7. The constituent elements of total economic value ........ 15
1.8. The relationship of World Heritage
sites to other types of protected areas ................ 26
1.9. Biosphere reserve zonation - oncept and practice ........ 29
Tables
1.1. Historic milestones in the development of protected
areas .................................................... 6
1.2. Old and new paradigms ................................... 10
1.3. The world's 20 largest protected areas .................. 19
1.4. International environmental conventions,
treaties and agreements, and associated protocols ....... 20
Boxes
1.1. IUCN categories ......................................... 12
1.2. Current protected area definitions ...................... 16
2.Protected areas and biodiversity ............................ 36
Habitat coverage by the protected areas ...................... 46
Figures
2.1. Global distribution of protected sites
of high urgency for consolidating the
global network of protected areas ....................... 44
2.2. Global distribution of unprotected
sites of high urgency ................................... 44
2.3. Global distribution of wetlands ......................... 67
2.4. Protected areas by river basin .......................... 68
2.5. Ramsar sites by river basin ............................. 69
Tables
2.1. Major habitat types, their global
coverage and the areas protected ........................ 47
2.2. Protection of temperate and boreal
needleleaf forests ...................................... 51
2.3. Protection of temperate broadleaf
and mixed forests ....................................... 52
2.4. Tree species in tropical moist
forests ................................................. 53
2.5. Protection of tropical moist forest ..................... 53
2.6. Protection of tropical dry forest ....................... 55
2.7. Protection of boreal and sub-boreal
open forests ............................................ 56
2.8. Protection of tropical open forests ..................... 57
2.9. Protection of tropical savannas ......................... 58
2.10.Protection of temperate grasslands ...................... 58
2.11.Protection of warm deserts and semi-deserts ............. 59
2.12.Protection of cold deserts and semi-deserts ............. 59
2.13.Protection of tundra .................................... 61
2.14.Protection of subtropical and tropical
shrublands ............................................. 62
2.15.Protection of boreal shrublands ......................... 62
2.16.Barren habitat in Himalayan and Tibetan
Plateau ecoregions and protected areas ................. 65
2.17.Proportion of mountain areas within
protected areas ......................................... 66
2.18.Estimated distribution of freshwater
resources by continent .................................. 66
2.19.Protection of wetlands .................................. 69
2.20.Ramsar sites of dominant wetland types .................. 70
2.21.Marine ecoregions of the world .......................... 72
2.22.Breakdown of marine protected areas ..................... 74
Boxes
2.1. WWF and biogeographic regions ........................... 45
2.2. Biodiversity conservation in the
Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau .......................... 64
2.3. Marine ecosystems ....................................... 71
3.Human settlement and incursion ............................... 76
Changes in fire regimes ...................................... 79
Infrastructure development ................................... 79
Tourism and recreation ....................................... 80
Resource extraction .......................................... 81
Alien species ................................................ 88
Impacts from beyond the boundaries ........................... 90
Climate change ............................................... 92
3.1. Types of threats to protected areas ..................... 78
3.2. Threats to protected areas from
tourism and recreation .................................. 80
3.1. Forest conversion to coffee in Dong
Hua Sao protected area, Lao PDR ......................... 82
3.2. World Heritage in danger ................................ 86
4.Protected areas in the wider context ......................... 98
Social context and changing paradigms ....................... 98
Establishing protected areas ............................... 101
IUCN protected area management categories .................. 106
Protected area management as governance .................... 108
Working with the community ................................. 109
Indigenous people and protected areas ...................... 113
Community conserved areas .................................. 114
International trends in protected area
governance ................................................. 115
Tables
4.1. Matrix of protected area management
objectives and IUCN categories ......................... 108
4.2. Modes of protected area governance ..................... 109
Boxes
4.1. Private protected areas ................................ 102
4.2. The Baja to Bering marine conservation
initiative ............................................. 105
4.3. Species conservation and traditional resource
ownership in the Pacific Islands ....................... 110
4.4. Kaa-iya del Gran Chaco National
Park and Management Area ............................... 112
4.5. Alto Fragua-lndiwasi: Colombia
recognizes a community conserved
area as a national park ................................ 115
4.6. Participatory planning and
management: the Galapagos .............................. 116
5.The functions and processes of protected
area management ............................................. 120
Obtaining and managing information .......................... 122
Management planning ......................................... 123
Finance and economics ....................................... 126
Administration .............................................. 130
Sustainable management ...................................... 131
Operations management ....................................... 132
Managing threats ............................................ 132
Cultural Heritage Management ................................ 133
Tourism and recreation ...................................... 133
Evaluating management effectiveness ......................... 138
Figures
5.1. Data and information flow in the UWA
management formation system ............................ 124
5.2. A typical planning process ............................. 127
Tables
5.1. WCPA management effectiveness framework ................ 140
5.2. Methods of data collection, participants
involved and WCPA framework elements ................... 141
5.3. Case studies of management effectiveness
evaluation ............................................. 142
Boxes
5.1. The role of rangers in protected
area management ........................................ 134
5.2. Developing capacity and training for
protected areas ........................................ 136
6.Managing the marine environment ............................. 146
Management interventions .................................... 146
Marine management areas - a broad array ..................... 146
Establishment and management issues ......................... 149
Tables
6.1.IUCN protected areas
management categories in the
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park ......................... 155
Boxes
6.1. The international framework ............................ 148
6.2. Fisheries benefits and limitations ..................... 149
7.Prospects for the 21st century .............................. 158
Assessing the global environment:
the challenges of change .................................... 158
Global "blueprints" for protected areas ..................... 164
Can the "blueprint" be implemented7 ......................... 167
Climate change and ecological networks ...................... 171
Resourcing the future ....................................... 172
Future prospects ............................................ 176
Figures
7.1. Relative loss of biodiversity of
vascular plants between
1970 and 2050 .......................................... 160
7.2. Species extinction rates ............................... 160
7.3. Pan-European ecological network ........................ 172
Boxes
7.1. The Durban action plan outcomes
and key targets ........................................ 165
7.2. CBD programme of work on protected areas:
elements and goals ..................................... 166
7.3. CBD programme of work on protected areas
time-bound targets ..................................... 168
7.4. The role of remote sensing
in protected areas management
in the 21st century .................................... 174
REGIONAL ANALYSIS
Introduction ................................................ 177
1. North America ............................................ 179
Canada, Greenland (Denmark), Mexico,
St Pierre and Miquelon (France), United
States of America Map Protected areas .................... 180
2. The Caribbean ............................................ 190
Anguilla (UK), Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba
(Netherlands), Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda
(UK), British Virgin Islands (UK), Cayman Islands
(UK), Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic,
Grenada, Guadeloupe (France), Haiti,
Jamaica, Martinique (France), Montserrat (UK),
Netherlands Antilles (Netherlands), Puerto Rico
(USA), St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent
and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago,
Turks and Caicos Islands (UK), United States
Virgin Islands (USA) Map Protected areas ................. 192
3. Central America 199
Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala,
Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama
Map Protected areas ...................................... 202
4. Brazil 208
Map Protected areas ...................................... 210
5. South America ............................................ 218
Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador,
French Guiana (France), Guyana, Paraguay,
Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela
Map Protected areas ...................................... 210
6. Europe ................................................... 227
Albania, Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia
and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech
Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Faroe Islands
(Denmark), Finland, France, Germany,
Gibraltar (United Kingdom), Greece, Hungary,
Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein,
Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia - FYR,
Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands,
Norway, Poland, Romania, San Marino,
Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Svalbard
and Jan Mayen Islands (Norway), Sweden,
Switzerland, United Kingdom, Vatican City State
Map Protected areas ...................................... 228
7. West and Central Africa .................................. 238
Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi,
Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African
Republic, Chad, Congo, Cote d'lvoire,
Democratic Republic of the Congo,
Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana,
Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali,
Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda,
Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Sierra
Leone, Togo
Map Protected areas ...................................... 240
8. Eastern and Southern Africa
Botswana, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea,
Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar,
Malawi, Mauritius, Mayotte (France),
Mozambique, Namibia, Reunion (France),
Seychelles, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan,
Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia,
Zimbabwe Map Protected areas ............................. 250
9. North Africa and the Middle East ......................... 258
Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Cyprus,
Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan,
Kuwait, Lebanon, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya,
Morocco, Oman, Occupied Palestinian Territories,
Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syrian Arab Republic,
Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates,
Western Sahara, Yemen Map Protected areas,
North Africa ............................................. 260
Protected areas, Middle East 262
10.Northern Eurasia ......................................... 268
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia,
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova,
Russian Federation, Tajikistan,
Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Map Protected areas ...................................... 270
11.South Asia ............................................... 277
Bangladesh, Bhutan, British Indian Ocean
Territory (UK), India, Maldives, Nepal,
Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Map Protected areas ...................................... 278
12.East Asia ................................................ 285
China, Democratic People's Republic of
Korea, Japan, Mongolia, Republic of Korea,
Taiwan POC
Map Protected areas ...................................... 286
13.Southeast Asia ........................................... 293
Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao
PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore,
Timor-Leste, Thailand, Viet Nam
Map Protected areas ...................................... 294
14.Australia and New Zealand ................................ 302
Map Protected areas ...................................... 304
15.Pacific islands .......................................... 312
American Samoa, Cook Islands, Federated
States of Micronesia, Fiji, French Polynesia,
Guam, Hawaii, Kiribati, Marshall Islands,
Nauru, New Caledonia, Niue, Northern
Mariana Islands, Palau, Papua New Guinea,
Pitcairn, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau,
Tonga, Tuvalu, United States Minor Outlying
Islands, Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna
Map Protected areas ...................................... 314
Bibliography ............................................. 320
Index ......................................................... 339
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