IUCN-WCPA's Best Practice Protected Area Guidelines are the world's authoritative
resource for protected area managers. Involving collaboration among specialist practitioners …

The importance of small-scale fisheries in Latin America and the Caribbean has been widely
recognized in terms of income, livelihoods, and food security for more than two million …

The rapid development in the tourism sector across the globe has posed significant
challenges for the conservation and management of natural resources, necessitating the …

Increasing tourism and population growth, exacerbated by migration, are placing pressure
on the health and resilience of natural resources worldwide. This is evident in complex …

Widespread overharvest has led to marine ecosystem degradation and declining fishery
catches in many tropical communities. To allow stocks to recover and provide increased …

Private protected areas (PPAs) are expanding rapidly in less-industrialized nations. This
paper explores cases in Los Ribs, Chile, to understand how local people living in and near …

Many large-bodied marine fishes that form spawning aggregations, such as the Nassau
grouper (Epinephelus striatus), have suffered regional overfishing due to exploitation during …

Numerous conservation initiatives have been undertaken to protect large marine animals by
legal protection and implementing marine protected areas (MPAs). Despite these efforts …

This research explores the potentials of co-management and the state of its implementation
in, which is an economy in transition and highly dependent on tourism. The study will focus …

The relationship between people's concern for the environment and their attitudes toward
marine life remains ambiguous, especially in developing countries such as China. This …