ENG BE 566 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Natural Disaster
22 Feb 2018
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Land acquisition is a technique for conservation. Little is known/studied about this practice, so there is little evidence for the value of the technique in conservation. In the last 20 years, tens of thousands of private forest land has been transferred to public access or ngo control. Private foret rights: "voluntary permanent transactions of private rights to forestland that occur with the intention to conserve ecological values in perpetuity" Forest right acquisitions are more widespread in countries with large, privately owned forests (brazil and us) This technique chosen if regulation is thought to be inadequate. Common and widespread technique in many different geographies. Local acquisitions have increased after natural disaster or regional economic shift. Measures of ecological impact will need to be coupled with better models of how conservation funders, organizations and landowners make decisions about protection, and how such decisions are influenced by public and private interventions.
