This article evaluates the outcomes of a participatory conservation zoning exercise undertaken in a mineral extraction zone the Cordillera Huayhuash in the Andes of Central Peru and contributes a case study to this body of work.
In a real conservation planning exercise, we expect that more comprehensive data on benthic biodiversity would be sought.
In a real conservation planning exercise, however, we recommend that more detailed data on catch and effort and associated cost-benefit ratios should be used where possible, along with any other data on human-uses that might be affected by conservation management [97].
A representation target of 10% of the total habitat suitable for a species has seen widespread use in conservation planning exercises and is included in the Convention on Biological Diversity (Justus et al. 2008).
This particular scale was chosen because it approximates the spatial resolution of most distribution records that we reviewed, and because it is still fine enough to be useful in regional conservation planning exercises.
We suggest caution be exercised by conservation authorities in setting the age to first picking and the levels of picking permitted for wild populations of Banksia hookeriana.
Options to increase food production while protecting the environment exclude further expansion of cropland, leaving increased agricultural productivity as an option assuming we address its associated technological and societal challenges while exercising environmental conservation.
In this study, we present results from an analysis of the factors behind protest responses in willingness to pay exercises for biodiversity conservation (non-use values) and ecosystem services maintenance (use values).
