Protected areas

Question 1

Protected areas

Answer 1

A protected area is a clearly defined geographical
space, recognised, dedicated and managed, through
legal or other effective means, to achieve the long
term conservation of nature with associated
ecosystem services and cultural values

Question 2

portenges

Answer 2

-17% of land is protected
-8% of the ocean is protected
-in canada 12 % is protected(9% ocean)

Question 3

central america and south america

Answer 3

have the most protected land/are

Question 4

marine protected areas

Answer 4

are growing

Question 5

IUCN

Answer 5

International Union for the
Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

Question 6

IUCN PAs management categories

Answer 6

categories close to I increse protection (more strict on humans) as it goes down to 6 (less streact/human use)

Question 7

Environmental outcomes of PAs

Answer 7

• Protection reduces the likelihood of an area to be cleared
  
  • Areas far from roads, cities and in steeper slopes are better
    conserved
• 20%-50% of protected areas are meeting their goals
  
  • Lack of funding and poor governance
• Marine protected areas: 71% positively influenced fish
  populations and influenced species recovery
  
  • Many still face lack of funding, staff and adequate
    monitoring

Question 8

they are good but they in practice may not work as well as it should

Answer 8

may not always be supported by the goverment - ex:brazil- if they find a need, they may allow for maning,deforestration

Question 9

indegenous people

Answer 9

have been impacted by protected areas

Question 10

ecological refugees.

Answer 10

climate change refugge

Question 11

conservation
refugees

Answer 11

people needs to move from their land due to conservation

Question 12

Socio-economic outcomes of PAs

Answer 12

-Fortress conservation model-need to protect these ecosystem in a fortress like way

-Restrictions on access and use for traditional right
holders

-Protecting nature from the natives

-‘Conservation’ refugees

Question 13

The evolution of protected areas

Answer 13

island approch > network approch (connect ecosystems)>landscape approch (how the whole scape works)> social-ecological approch (ex:indegenous protected areas)

Question 14

protected areas that work with people

Answer 14

tend to have ecological betterment

Question 15

New approaches to conservation

Answer 15

 More explicit recognition of local rights
 Moving from ‘top-down‘ to ‘bottom-up’ conservation
 Increasing understanding of human role in nature
 Highlighting interconnectivity of environmental
conservation and quality of human life