ENVIRONMENT:
Protected
Areas - On Paper Only
Nearly
25 percent of Latin American territory
is under some sort of nature protection
legislation, but just a half-dollar per
hectare goes towards management and
monitoring of these areas, says a report
by the United Nations Environment
Programme (UNEP).
Most of these protected areas exist only
in the documents that created them,
without the provisions being put into
practice, says a UNEP study presented at
the Fifth World Parks Congress in
Durban, South Africa, where some 2,000
delegates are meeting Sep. 8 to Sep. 17.
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