Ecosystem approach

8 important questions on Ecosystem approach

Problems in Tridom park

  • Poaching
  • Infrastructure
  • Logging and small scale agriculture
  • Agroindustry: Palm oil plantations
  • Mining: permits for iron
  • Hydropower
  • Climate change: Forest fires

What are the goals of WWF?

  • Protection and managing of biodiversity
  • Protection of most important spiecies to thrive and be restored
  • Decline human footprint

Why can WWF help?

Trusted partner; official partner of the 3 governments, only one present, work at scale, community supported (grassroots connections), use of landscape approach
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What are the 2 aims of protected areas?

  • Value and conserve habitats and cultural landscape values
  • Mapping for biodiversity indicators to conserve habitats

Why do people use protected areas in an ecosystem approach?

  1. To conserve habitats or biodiversity
  2. Understand dynamics relations between people and environment
  3. Use as ecological target or to develop knowledge as a target

What are the problems associated with the use of protected areas?

  • fragmentation
  • ecological isolation
  • paper parks
  • high cost of achieving representative PAs
  • limited resources and highly variable input to output efficience
  • in the Netherlands low to moderate performance

What are positive effects of the use of protected areas to livelihoods?

increased resources and production, more legal rights and less conflicts, better cohesion and controlled immigration, better infrastructure

What are negative effects of the use of protected areas to livelihoods?

Conservation refugees, exclusion, negative impact on poverty and marginalisation, limiting community and user rights

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