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Tuesday, 19 January 2010 16:10

"In 2000 a conference organised in Bangkok by WWF and the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas agreed that there was an urgent need to identify and quantify the wide range of social and environmental benefits offered by protected areas. The WWF Arguments for Protection project was developed in response. The project aims to:

  • Identify and where possible quantify the wide range of benefits derived from protected areas
  • Increase support for protection
  • Develop new interdisciplinary partnerships
  • Identify innovative financing mechanisms
  • Broaden and strengthen protected area management strategies..."

Dudley, N., S. Stolton, A. Belokurov, L. Krueger, N. Lopoukhine, K. MacKinnon, T. Sandwith and N. Sekhran [editors] (2010); Natural Solutions: Protected areas helping people cope with climate change, IUCNWCPA, TNC, UNDP, WCS, The World Bank and WWF, Gland, Switzerland, Washington DC and New York, USA

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