They sought to maximize the value from wildlife to people living with it by (1) devolving full proprietorship to landholders, (2) encouraging sustainable commercial uses provided they were humane, and (3) reducing the regulatory burden on the sector.
In total, the twelve lodges in our dataset control 31,807 ha of rainforest (Supporting Information Table S1), of which Reserva Amazonica lodge is an especially large landholder [1], controlling 20,646 ha, including numerous plots of titled land, a tourism concession, a conservation concession, and a Brazil nut concession.
The bigger landholders get 40 seats in Chief Pleas, the parliament that meets in an old schoolhouse under a portrait of the queen.
The social profiles, developed from qualitative interview analysis, are based on key characteristics of different groups of landholders and include: (1) length of farm occupancy, (2) farm size, (3) farm 'survival' strategy, (4) commercial crops grown, and (5) landholder values attached to place.
Zimbabwe's far-sighted Natural Resources Act of 1941 enabled farmers to voluntarily establish themselves (usually 30 to 50 landholders in a catchment) as democratically-managed Intensive Conservation Areas (ICA) with more power to regulate themselves than anything a centralized state would dare to impose.
He proposed that the government confiscate the estates of the largest 70,000 landholders there, those who owned more than 200 acres.
Consequently, the 27 landholders in the Save Valley shifted from livestock to wildlife, combining 344,200 ha of previously degraded cattle ranches into a huge wildlife conservancy with no internal fencing and common management policies (Lindsay et al. 2009).
The Alter site has 170 landholders, Mr. Horlacher said.
The state government invoked a colonial-era law to forcibly acquire the plot in 2006 from 13,000 landholders, many of them unwilling sellers.
We surveyed 109 landholders in California's Sacramento Valley to determine drivers of adoption of field edge plantings.
To understand their motivations and barriers to conserve biodiversity, qualitative interviews were conducted with 45 landholders who had participated in one of three different programs in Queensland, Australia.
