Conservation and Controversy in the Karakoram: Khunjerab National Park, Pakistan

Knudsen, Are

doi:10.2458/v6i1.21421

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“…The Convention on Biological Diversity's Programme of Work on Protected Areas advocates active participation of local communities in the creation and management of PAs (Convention on Biological Diversity, 2004). The denial of local people's rights upon PA creation, coupled with an unwillingness to involve them in PA management, were the reasons offered for the failure of a community conservation initiative outside of Knunjerab National Park, Pakistan (Knudsen, 1999). On the other hand, local support is not always essential for PA success (Brockington, 2003(Brockington, , 2004Holmes, 2013).…”

Section: Rethinking Buffer Zonesmentioning

confidence: 96%

Cautionary thoughts on IUCN protected area management categories V–VI

Shafer

2015

Global Ecology and Conservation

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h i g h l i g h t s• Although IUCN protected area management categories V-VI were adopted at the Fifth World Parks Congress in 2003, the fears of some skeptics have not been resolved.• Although promoting the preservation of biological diversity and the economic welfare of local people may be linked, tradeoffs are inevitable.• The expected win-win success stories for categories V-VI have not been abundant although evaluation methods are still unrefined. • Categories V-VI will be more effective for biological diversity conservation if the buffer zones have land use restrictions and adequate governance.• Local participation in buffer zone management is a wise strategy but enforcement by protected area authorities, and some coercion, may be essential to insure that land use practices are biologically optimal for the core area and its buffer zone. a b s t r a c tThe debate about the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) protected area management categories V-VI has been ongoing since the mid-1990s. Even though these two categories were officially adopted at the Fifth World Parks Congress in Durban in 2003, and approved at the Fourth IUCN World Parks Conference in Barcelona, in 2008, this has not completely alleviated the fears of some debate participants. The question persists, can the perceived dual role of these two categories in promoting the preservation of biological diversity and the economic welfare of local people actually work in synergy? One aspect of categories V-VI needs careful scrutiny: buffer zone land use restrictions and adequate governance. Although local participation in buffer zone management marks a wise cooperative policy, some coercion and enforcement by protected area (PA) authorities seems essential to assure that land use practices in the buffer zone are optimal for core area biota. Buffer zone policy and governance is key to PA biological diversity conservation success.

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Section: Rethinking Buffer Zonesmentioning

confidence: 96%

Cautionary thoughts on IUCN protected area management categories V–VI

Shafer

2015

Global Ecology and Conservation

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“…For twenty-five years Shimshal has been fighting a lonely battle to prevent most of its territory from being appropriated as part of a national wilderness preserve (Butz 2002b, Knudsen 1999. This battle has sensitized Shimshalis to prevailing representations of the community as lacking the discipline, organization, and intelligence required to manage their vast territory sustainably.…”

Section: Conclusion: the Complementarity Of Strategies And Tacticsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Sustainable Tourism And Everyday Life In Shimshal, Pakistan

Butz¹

2002

Tourism Recreation Research

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“…Important populations of large ungulates and carnivores, notably Marco Polo sheep and snow leopard (Schaller et al, 1987) provide the foundation for an international protected area in the region (Schaller, 2007). The two ecologically contiguous areas were known to have thousands of Marco Polo sheep and ibex till the midnineties (Roberts, 1999) and were inhibited by Kirgiz, Tajik, and Brosho folks carving out a living from pastoral animals husbandry, utilizing sub-alpine and alpine pastures in a complex pastoral herding system (Knudsen, 1999;Ablimit et al, 2011;Khan et al, 2014a,b).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 96%