This Act provides for the establishment of the Protected Areas Commission, the Protected Areas Trust and a Trust Fund and empowers the Minister to declare national protected areas. It applies to the territorial sea, exclusive economic zone, fishery zone and continental shelf as defined in the Maritime Zones Act 2010. The Act alos provides with respect to the National Protected Areas System and allows village councils to apply to the Commission for village lands or any part thereof to be recognised as an Amerindian protected area.
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Library ResourceLegislationSeptember, 2011Guyana
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Library ResourceNational PoliciesJanuary, 2012Montserrat
The Physical Development Plan for North Montserrat is a regional policy with a multi-sectoral approach. The timeframe of the Plan is 10 years between 2012 and 2022.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2011Africa, Central America, South America
The introduction to this set of papers highlights four challenges to the large-scale analysis of population growth at protected area edges in Africa and Latin America undertaken by George Wittemyer and colleagues in their 2008 paper published in Science. First, it raises questions about their sampling procedures, given national-level variation in systems of protected area designation and protected area estates. Second, it challenges the largely economic model of migration decisions that underlies their analysis.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2011Africa, Central America, South America
The introduction to this set of papers highlights four challenges to the large-scale analysis of population growth at protected area edges in Africa and Latin America undertaken by George Wittemyer and colleagues in their 2008 paper published in Science. First, it raises questions about their sampling procedures, given national-level variation in systems of protected area designation and protected area estates. Second, it challenges the largely economic model of migration decisions that underlies their analysis.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchOctober, 2011Bolivia
El documento describe la marcha por la defensa del Territorio Indígena y Parque Nacional Isiboro Sécure (TIPNIS) más allá de la carretera y de sus impactos ambientales y políticos, hoy como antaño, una parte del país se niega a entender la historia,los derechos y las alternativas del pueblo mojeño.
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Library ResourcePolicy Papers & BriefsDecember, 2011Bolivia
(*) Ismael Guzmán
Entre julio y septiembre del presente año Bolivia vivió, paso a paso, en un dramático suspenso, el recorrido de seiscientos kilómetros de la VIII Marcha protagonizada por los pueblos indígenas de las tierras bajas del país, demandando que una carretera destinada a unir los departamentos de Beni y Cochabamba no atraviese el Territorio Indígena Parque Nacional Isiboro Sécure (TIPNIS). Luego de tensas negociaciones, en La Paz, el presidente Evo Morales promulgó una Ley que suspendía el tramo, pero no todo estaba dicho...
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