UNESCO Biosphere Reserves
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- Created on: 09-01-14 22:05
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- UNESCO Biosphere Reserves
- Positives
- Social
- Ecotourism provides jobs
- Long-term leases/selective small-scale clearance with replanting
- multiple zoning, e.g. hunting, tourism, conservation
- tree cover in watersheds reduces flood risk and improves water quality and quantity for vilagers
- economic
- Ecotourism - sustainable e.g. wood huts
- Extractive reserves, e.g. rubber, nuts - can be sold
- Agroforestry - maintains biodiversity of agricultural land. Crops can be grown beneath the shade of banana trees
- environmental
- Tree nurseries to replace cut down forest- afforestation
- Reserves linked by natural corridors for migration
- Forest reserve protected areas with minimum human interference
- Size of reserve is large enough to support wildlife. Tree cover is maintained on watershed
- Areas of selective logging. No clear cut felling so a tree cover is maintained.
- Social
- Negatives
- social
- requires education and knowledge to set up
- MDCs might not have innate knowledge
- not all locals on board - violence e.g. shootings
- economic
- small amounts of money produced
- needs funding to set it up
- leakage of money
- environmental
- no immediate negative environmental effects
- social
- Positives
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