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The rapid development of parks and ecotourism in China has attracted worldwide attention, not only for the beauty of the landscape that the parks are protecting but also for their abundant and often unique biodiversity. However, in some areas, the development of ecotourism has actually led to the degradation of local ecological, economic, and social systems. Using National Forest Parks for demonstration,...
Forest loss with accompanying urbanization is often permanent as forests are replaced by impervious concrete structures or surfaces. The remaining forest patches are usually isolated and too small to maintain viable populations of forest-dependent wildlife species. Consistent with the species–area function (S=cAz), extirpation of species should follow forest loss. However, this has rarely ever been...
A global forest convention has been under negotiation since the Rio Conference in 1992. In spite of numerous meetings, we have failed to make significant progress beyond the weak set of nonlegally binding Forest Principles that were agreed in 1992. Here, we highlight the feasibility of using the World Heritage Convention to protect tracts of forest that are deemed to be of high conservation value...
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