What Future for Protected Areas? Analysing the Mismatch between South Africa's Pre-existing Protected areas System and the Declared vision in Contemporary Conservation Policy.

ABSTRACT: Designation of protected areas has enjoyed global application as a means of biodiversity conservation for over 100 years. National conservation policy is essential as a means of protecting biodiversity, but is contingent on, amongst others, changing values and international drivers, and remains dynamic in many countries. As conservation policies evolve, the role of pre-existing protected areas within broader strategies for conservation can become unclear, with consequences both for the ability of the conservation policies to achieve their stated goals, and also for biodiversity outcomes within a nation. In order to map evolving inconsistencies between conservation policy and the role of protected areas within it, we develop a conceptual conservation policy framework synthesised from differ

SUBMITTER: Alberts RC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11549172 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature