Financing of Protected Areas: A Global Review of Challenges and Options
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| Author(s) | Emerton, L. Bishop, J. Thomas, L. |
| Date | 2006 |
| Reference type | Report |
| Source name | Best Practice Protected Area Guidelines Series |
| Journal | No. 13 |
| Publisher | IUCN, Gland and Cambridge |
Summary
IUCN has recently conducted a global review concluding that to at least maintain financial flows from governments and development assistance agencies to protected areas, the conservation community needs to better demonstrate the contribution of protected areas to the poverty reduction agenda. Mechanisms that generate incentives for conservation including fiscal instruments and revenue sharing schemes, have significant potential for further development but require a major investment in capacity strengthening and awareness-raising. Market-based "fees" for protected area services (including tourism charges, resource extraction fees and payments for ecosystem services) also show considerable scope for expansion but are not without their challenges. It appears there is no shortage of options and opportunities for funding protected areas. A bigger challenge appears to be strengthening the capacity to manage them more effectively. This capacity requirement includes the need to build a supportive policy and institutional framework that doesn't undermine the ability of protected areas to charge, collect and retain fees, and the need to enhance the skills of individuals within protected area authorities in order for them to run their parks as businesses. Governments and donor agencies must honour their international commitments to finance biodiversity conservation. But protected area authorities need to play their part too and move from being passive recipients of funds to bold, innovative business managers.
Themes
Protected areas
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