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Photo: Larry Cartmill
Photo: Larry Cartmill
Photo: Larry Cartmill
Photo: Larry Cartmill |
Conservation Planning
Primary Objectives of Various Land Management
Systems
Biological Reserve
- Conserve representative samples within ecosystem
- Preserve genetic reserves
- Provide opportunities for research, education and monitoring
National Park
- Conserve ecosystem samples and preserve genetic resources
- Provide recreational opportunities
- Provide opportunities for research and monitoring
- Protect national cultural heritage
- Improve environmental quality
National Cultural Monument
- Protect national cultural heritage
- Provide opportunities for research, education and monitoring
Forest Reserve
- Conserve and improve hydrological systems
- Control erosion and sedimentation
- Conserve and improve timber and forest resources
- Provide opportunities for recreation
- Protect and administer wildlife resources
- Provide opportunities for research, monitoring, and education
- Protect national cultural heritage
- Integrate use of rural and marginal resources
Wildlife Refuge
- Conserve representative ecosystem samples
- Conserve genetic resources
- Provide opportunities for education, monitoring, and research
Indian Reserve
- Protect and administer wildlife resources
- Protect national cultural heritage
Extractive Reserve
- Protect and administer wildlife resources
- Protect national cultural heritage
- Achieve conservation and integrate use of rural and marginal resources
Biosphere Reserve
- Conserve representative samples of ecosystem
- Conserve genetic resources
- Provide opportunities for research, monitoring, and education
- Achieve conservation and integrate use of rural and marginal resources
Special Considerations
- National Parks, National Monuments, Wildlife Reserves, and Forest
Reserves can promote ecotourism, which provides additional income.
- Extractive and Indian Reserves provide some protection for wildlife
preservation and permit sustainable agriculture and agroforestry.
- Biosphere and Biological Reserves must include a buffer zone to minimize
the abrupt transition from developments to the rainforest ecosystem.
- Biosphere, Biological, and Wildlife Reserve areas may be joined by
"corridors," which would permit the unimpeded passage of wildlife.
- All types of reserves must be supported by adequate financial and human
resources to function sustainably.
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