Pub Date : 2018-05-31DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.CH.2018.PARKS-24-1MSU.EN
S. Uddin, J. Parr
The protected area system of Bangladesh in March 2017 comprised 17 national parks covering 45,740 hectares and 21 wildlife sanctuaries covering 394,053 hectares. The Government of Bangladesh introduced collaborative management in these reserves in three successive, expanding phases undertaken between 2003 up until the present time. During this period, the successive programmes introduced an elaborate collaborative management system. This paper evaluates this collaborative management system as well as the protected area management arrangements being promoted, comprising: (i) the Co-management Council, (ii) the Co-management Committee, (iii) the People’s Forum, and (iv) sub-village institutional bodies including the Community Patrol Groups and the Forest User Groups (or the Village Conservation Forums). It assesses the management interventions and the effectiveness of the collaborative management system to implement an effective protected area programme. The review indicates that the current organisation and mandate of the protected area authorities precludes them from being effective partners in collaborative management, lacking dedicated staff in both the outreach and livelihood agendas, which severely undermines their participation in collaborative management. This paper recommends that the protected area authority needs to be strengthened and reorganised, in order to play a leading role in village engagement – and a key leading agency in the higher level collaborative management bodies.
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Pub Date : 2018-05-31DOI: 10.2305/iucn.ch.2018.parks-24-1abr.en
Anthony B. Rouphael
There is an increasing demand that managers of marine parks quantitatively demonstrate the achievement of their conservation goals. Monitoring is one tool that can help with this. One component of monitoring that is challenging for managers is the statistical treatment of monitoring data. Commonly used approaches, such as null hypothesis tests, are conceptually challenging and operationally complex, potentially leading to wrong conclusions and poor decisions. A more straightforward approach is parameter estimation with confidence intervals. Parameter estimation focuses on estimating the size of change or difference (an ‘effect size’) in a response variable and comparing this with a pre-defined effect size called a management threshold. Confidence intervals indicate the level of precision in estimates of change, which make for more balanced conclusions. Parameter estimation is also conducive to graphing, which can facilitate interpretation and communication to non-scientists. In this paper, I demonstrate three examples of parameter estimation and discuss their relative strengths and weaknesses. By presenting these examples, I hope to encourage managers to adopt statistical approaches that allow them to quantify environmental change in a way that will contribute to defensible conclusions, facilitate timely decision making and be understood by stakeholders.
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Pub Date : 2018-05-31DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.CH.2018.PARKS-24-1AE.EN
Abraham Eustace, A. Kisingo, John S.F. Mbwiliza
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Pub Date : 2018-05-01DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.CH.2018.PARKS-24-1ND.EN
N. Dudley, M. Hockings, S. Stolton, T. Amend, R. Badola, M. Bianco, N. Chettri, C. Cook, J. Day, P. Dearden, M. Edwards, P. Ferraro, W. Foden, R. Gambino, K. Gaston, N. Hayward, V. Hickey, Jason Irving, Bruce Jeffries, A. Karapetyan, M. Kettunen, L. Laestadius, D. Laffoley, D. Lham, G. Lichtenstein, John Makombo, N. Marshall, M. McGeoch, D. Nguyen, Sandra Nogué, M. Paxton, M. Rao, R. Reichelt, Jorge Rivas, D. Roux, C. Rutte, K. Schreckenberg, A. Sovinc, Svetlana Sutyrina, A. Utomo, D. Vallauri, P. Vedeld, B. Verschuuren, J. Waithaka, S. Woodley, C. Wyborn, Yan Zhang
A hundred research priorities of critical importance to protected area management were identified by a targeted survey of conservation professionals; half researchers and half practitioners. Respondents were selected to represent a range of disciplines, every continent except Antarctica and roughly equal numbers of men and women. The results analysed thematically and grouped as potential research topics as by both practitioners and researchers. Priority research gaps reveal a high interest to demonstrate the role of protected areas within a broader discussion about sustainable futures and if and how protected areas can address a range of conservation and socio-economic challenges effectively. The paper lists the hundred priorities structured under broad headings of management, ecology, governance and social (including political and economic issues) and helps contribute to setting future research agendas.
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