"The reasons, so far as we can determine by talking to suspects, are self-protection, status, protecting criminal interests – such as a drugs business – and a culture of fear.
We downloaded the World Database on Protected Areas (https://protectedplanet.net/, accessed 01/01/2016) and extracted for each plot its protection status, considering all types protected areas as equally important including IUCN protected areas (summarised in Leroux et al. 2010).
Using the GIS, each bari is assigned a flood protection status (1 for protected or 0 for unprotected).
It can be used, for example, to examine whether the differences just discussed are similar to those between higher and lower protection status (about 2/5 of all protected land, on average, is in higher status).
Further, it does so for two comparisons, protected versus unprotected and higher versus lower protection status.
where y is the forest area change rate in percent, d is a dummy variable indicating protection status (0 for unprotected lands, 1 for protected lands) and x t is population density in year t.
To assess possible differences in movement characteristics of forest elephants in relation to road protection status, we classified roads as either "unprotected" or "protected".
Third, although we use protected area coverage to evaluate conservation coverage, we acknowledge that protection status does not necessary translate into actual protection on the ground.
Protected areas were conserved very effectively; however, forest core areas without any protection status require further attention.
The Wilderness Act enhanced the protection status of remote or undeveloped land already contained within federally administered protected areas.
