But it adds: Despite the significant obstacle to conservation that oil palm plantations represent, the area under logging concessions still dwarfs that under oil palm.
The issues that you raise - poverty, human population growth, and corruption – are certainly major obstacles to effective conservation of biodiversity, in the Coral Triangle and elsewhere.
Growing demand for natural resources and ecosystem services as a result of rapid human population growth, combined with widespread poverty and corruption (within governments at all levels, and in other organisations) present significant obstacles to effective conservation of biodiversity in the Coral Triangle.
Whilst paucity of data should not necessarily be seen as an obstacle to initiating conservation planning processes, conservation decisions can be more effective in promoting the persistence of biodiversity and livelihoods if some important limitations of data are understood or avoided.
Insufficient information for targeting conservation efforts is a major obstacle to the conservation of tropical biodiversity [17], [18].
In this sense, reports of selection for fungicide resistant strains are increasing and represent a significant obstacle to postharvest conservation and commerce [ 3].
In its effort to make broad changes in most aspects of farm policy, Mr. Lugar's bill would also increase money for conservation, remove obstacles to international trade agreements and double the amount of new spending for nutrition and food stamps.
This paper gives a brief overview of urban nature conservation in the world, the obstacles to implementation in South Africa and the importance of socio-economics and environmental legislation.
Funding remains a major obstacle to scaling the Conservation Fund's model.
My main comments addressed to the authors would pertain to the major obstacles that conservation initiatives have been confronted with over the decades, leading to very few success stories even to this day.
Although the discussion identifies several obstacles to the practical application of the scheme, there appears to exist no principal reason why a conservation policy based on the Faustmann–Hartman approach should not work in forestry.
