Three areas were recommended for incorporation into the Park, and six for off-reserve conservation management.
Additional areas with outstanding features of diversity, connectivity areas, and establishment of targets for off-reserve conservation are of fundamental importance for strengthening biodiversity conservation.
Typically, "off-reserve" conservation in agricultural landscapes assumes a trade-off between maintaining the ecological processes that support biodiversity and successful food production and profitability.
After refining an existing GIS database of cadastral units targeted for conservation, we assigned on- or off-reserve conservation status to properties on the basis of a simple decision system, which took the irreplaceability of the area into account.
In addition to traditional on-reserve protection, we identify two types of property-rights agreements (conservation easements and management agreements) and two types of financial incentives (land management assistance and tax relief) as appropriate for encouraging off-reserve conservation on targeted lands in the area.
In the meantime, given public determination and the time bought from tapping the reserves, conservation and the development of alternate energy sources could drastically reduce our overall demand for oil.
In all, about one-fourth of Tanzania's land has been set aside to form an extensive network of reserves, conservation areas, and national parks, a number of which including Serengeti National Park, the Selous Game Reserve, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, and Kilimanjaro National Park have been designated UNESCO World Heritage sites.
A six-day tour organized by Classic Journeys blends adventure and nature in Costa Rica, where one-quarter of the nation is made up of national parks, wildlife refuges, marine sanctuaries, national reserves, conservation areas and biological reserves, which protect the land from overuse.
