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Indigenous and traditional peoples and climate change
… 30 4.2 THE TROPICAL FOREST BELT AND CLIMATE CHANGE … 32 4.2.2 Tropical forests and climate change … 32 4.2.3 Indigenous Peoples in the tropical rainforest belt … FAO, 2007) 4.2.3 Indigenous Peoples in the tropical rainforest belt Tropical forests are the richest habitat type …
On dangerous ground _ Global Witness
… agricultural plantations or gangs of illegal loggers. The rainforest has given way to thousands of illegal logging … been felled.36 At the frontiers of agricultural land and tropical forests, violence is now commonplace. Following … proven to be some of the most effec- tive protectors of tropical forests,137 often with little state support, but …
Sacred natural sites: Guidelines for protected area managers
… for its research in marine science, marine biology, tropical biology and environmental science as well as for its … and Cairns, adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef and the Tropical Rain- forest World Heritage Areas. Website: … Professor Peter Valentine (peter.valentine@jcu.edu.au) Rainforest CRC The Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical …
Protected landscapes and cultural and spiritual values
… New Guinea, the Philippines and the Solomon Islands, and tropical countries such as Camer- oon, the Democratic … the temperate southern areas of eastern Australia and the tropical north. The zone of overlap has significance for the … Andes, extending down to the western edge of the rainforest in the Esmeraldas coastal region (Young and …
Indigenous and local communities and protected areas: Towards equity and enhanced conservation. Guidance on policy and practice for co-managed protected areas and community conserved areas
… largest park in Bolivia, includes the largest area of dry tropical forest under full-protected area status anywhere in … Box 5.5) n Palian river basin, Trang Province, Thailand (rainforest, coast, mangroves) n Thateng District, Sekong …
The Sacred Dimension of Protected Areas: Proceedings of the Second Workshop of the Delos Initiative - Ouranoupolis 2007
… of indigenous and traditional cultures live in the tropical belt, from which developed countries are virtually … the majori- ty of conservation efforts occur in the tropical belt because of the levels of bi- odiversity present …