Effectiveness of Parks in Protecting Tropical Biodiversity

摘要: We assessed the impacts of anthropogenic threats on 93 protected areas in 22 tropical countries to test hypothesis that parks are an effective means protect biodiversity. found majority successful at stopping land clearing, and a lesser degree mitigating logging, hunting, fire, grazing. Park effectiveness correlates with basic management activities such as enforcement, boundary demarcation, direct compensation local communities, suggesting even modest increases funding would directly increase ability