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  2. Protected area - Wikipedia

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    Mountains: Nationally designated protected areas cover 14.3% of the world's mountain areas, and these mountainous protected areas made up 32.5% of the world's total terrestrial protected area coverage in 2009. Mountain protected area coverage has increased globally by 21% since 1990 and out of the 198 countries with mountain areas, 43.9% still ...

  3. Protected areas of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Federal protected areas include lands and waters owned outright ("Fee ownerships"), as well as areas that are secured by easements, leases, etc. In addition to ownership-defined areas, there are numerous overlaying policy designations that apply management protections and use conditions on all or some of individual protected areas (e.g ...

  4. Environmental protection - Wikipedia

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    The 2002 figures of 10.1% of terrestrial area and 64,615,554 ha of protected marine area [48] were found to poorly represent about half of Australia's 85 bioregions. [ 49 ] Environmental protection in Australia could be seen as starting with the formation of the first national park, Royal National Park , in 1879. [ 50 ]

  5. Governance of protected areas - Wikipedia

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    The area is a protected area in the country at stake, although not internationally; it likely comprises voluntary conservation; it can comprise ancillary conservation; it can be considered an OECM from an international point The State government does not recognize it as part of its system of protected areas

  6. Protected area downgrading, downsizing, and degazettement

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    PADDD suggests that conservation success is dependent not only on the creation of new protected areas but also the maintenance of existing protected areas. [9] Scientists highlight the need for decision-makers to consider protected area characteristics and the socioeconomic context in which they are situated to better ensure their permanence. [14]

  7. Geoconservation - Wikipedia

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    The geosites are zoned to provide proper management of the protected areas. The core areas are the places in the geoheritage site that are the most important for protection, and require the higher amounts of infrastructure. The buffer areas is the zone around the core areas that will support the core zone and be used for a wider range of ...

  8. Conservation development - Wikipedia

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    Parismina, main street, Costa Rica. Conservation development, also known as conservation design, is a controlled-growth land use development that adopts the principle for allowing limited sustainable development while protecting the area's natural environmental features in perpetuity, including preserving open space landscape and vista, protecting farmland or natural habitats for wildlife, and ...

  9. 30 by 30 - Wikipedia

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    30 by 30 is the third of 23 global biodiversity targets for 2030 in the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, adopted in December 2022: . Ensure and enable that by 2030 at least 30 per cent of terrestrial, inland water, and of coastal and marine areas, especially areas of particular importance for biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services, are effectively conserved and ...