Single-species conservation in a multiple-use landscape: current protection of the tiger range
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We report on land management and protected area management effectiveness in the tiger range. Wild tigers Panthera tigris are found in 13 countries, with habitat that is also important for ecosystem services, biodiversity and a number of other threatened species. Timber production, mineral mining, oil and gas concessions and protected areas are common land‐use designations in tiger habitat. Twenty‐one per cent of the current tiger range is under some form of protection, while 9% is designated as ‘strictly protected,’ in IUCN categories I or II. Fifteen per cent of the tiger range is under oil and gas concession. These concessions also overlap 152 protected areas, 55 of which are categorized as strictly protected. Management effectiveness tracking tool responses suggest that the majority of protected areas in the tiger range are inadequately managed to meet their objectives, and the most commonly reported management challenges are minimal enforcement and budgets. We observe that even strictly protected areas are subject to a variety of pressures, particularly resource extraction. Results imply that the establishment and enforcement of effective protected areas in each tiger landscape, sufficient to protect and grow breeding tiger populations, could help change current trends. These areas should be free from incompatible land uses, and should be adequately resourced to meet management, enforcement and monitoring challenges. Weaknesses in protected area management identified here…
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In many tropical regions, land use conflicts threaten remaining natural habitats outside protected areas and the protected areas themselves.
“In many tropical regions, such land use conflicts represent a threat not only to remaining natural habitats outside protected areas but even to the protected areas themselves (Forrest et al., ; Laurance et al., ; Tweh et al., ).”
From A mix of community-based conservation and protected forests is needed for the survival of the Endangered pygmy hippopotamus<i>Choeropsis liberiensis</i> (2017) · cites this paper as Forrest et al., 2011
Multiple-use landscapes and unprotected areas are important for species survival, especially where the existing protected area network does not entirely cover species' ranges and suitable habitats.
“Multiple-use landscapes and unprotected areas are important for species survival (Gardner et al., ; Perfecto & Vandermeer, ), especially where the existing network of protected areas does not entirely cover species' ranges and suitable habitats; e.g. for some large mammalian carnivores (Forrest et al., ; Swanepoel et al., ) and migratory herbivores (Western et al., ).”
From A mix of community-based conservation and protected forests is needed for the survival of the Endangered pygmy hippopotamus<i>Choeropsis liberiensis</i> (2017) · cites this paper as Forrest et al., 2011
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- Authors
- Forrest, J. L., Bomhard, B., Budiman, A., Coad, L., Cox, N., Dinerstein, E., Hammer, D., Huang, C., Huy, K., Kraft, R., Lysenko, I., & Magrath, W.
- Affiliations
- World Wildlife Fund (US)
- UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (GB)
- WWF-Indonesia (ID)
- Resources For The Future (US)
- WWF-Cambodia (KH)
- World Bank (US)
- Corresponding author
- Forrest, J. L.
- Venue
- Animal Conservation
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2011-01-12
- Volume
- 14
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 283-294
- ISSN
- 1367-9430 (ISSN-L)
- 1469-1795
- OpenAlex
- W1828704630
- Cited by
- 17
- References
- 53
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 4 · 2021: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 1 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 4
- FWCI
- 1.37
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Animal Conservation (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- World Bank Group
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Nature and Landscape Conservation › Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
- Keywords
- tiger, protected area management effectiveness, protected area enforcement, oil and gas concessions, resource extraction, land use, IUCN protected area categories, tiger conservation, ecosystem services, threatened species, tiger habitat
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