Environments, December 1st, 2004
UNESCO biosphere reserves are increasingly recognised world-wide as an alternative, realistic, effective way to achieve conservation goals in environments that are being impacted by humans more and more. I say increasingly, because, in the past five years, more biosphere reserves have been added than in the previous decade--using the EuroMab region (Russia, Europe, Canada and the USA) as an example (Table 1). Many biosphere reserves were added in the early years of the program (late 1970s and early 1980s), but many of these older biosphere reserves were established with little local communit...
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