International Journal of Conservation Science Maintaining the Biodiversity of Informal Protected Areas: A Collaborative Conservational Approach (original) (raw)

Collaborative conservation strategies for protecting and managing natural resources help in creating a healthy ecosystem. A collaborative approach gives a chance in which conservation issues are targeted collectively by using an adaptive management of whole ecosystems, including human communities. The idea is to conserve the local landscape, wildlife and resources by the community and for the community. Collaborative conservation strategies also apply widely for ecosystem management in informal protected areas. In this paper the role of a collaborative conservation of an informal site is discussed, to demonstrate how it may help in maintaining and managing the biodiversity. Additionally, the conservation of formal protected areas and the adjoining cultivated landscape is compared with the biodiversity of the informal landscape. It was found that there is no significant difference in biodiversity richness between the formal and informal protected sites. The paper also focuses on the ...

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