- Title
- The dynamics of proclaimed privately protected areas in South Africa over 83 years
- Creator
- de Vos, Alta, Clements, Hayley S, Biggs, Duan, Cumming, Graeme S
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2019
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/433223
- Identifier
- vital:72952
- Identifier
- xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12644"
- Description
- Views that protected area (PA) expansion relies predominantly on land purchased by government are increasingly being challenged. The inclusion of privately owned PAs (PPAs) in national conservation strategies is now commonplace, but little is known about their long-term persistence and how it compares to that of state-owned PAs. We undertook the first long-term assessment of the dynamics of a national system of terrestrial PPAs, assessing its growth, as well as its resilience to downgrading, downsizing, and degazettement (PADDD). Between 1926 and 2018, 6.2% of all private nature reserves established in South Africa were degazetted, compared to 2.2% of state-owned nature reserves. Privately owned PA growth exceeded that of state-owned PAs. Trends in PA establishment differed between privately owned and state-owned PAs, reflecting different legislative, political, and economic events. Our findings highlight the value of enabling legislative environments to facilitate PPA establishment, and demonstrate the potential of PPAs as a long-term conservation strategy.
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (10 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Conservation Letters, De Vos, A., Clements, H.S., Biggs, D. and Cumming, G.S., 2019. The dynamics of proclaimed privately protected areas in South Africa over 83 years. Conservation Letters, 12(6), p.e12644, Conservation Letters volume 12 number 6 p.e 12644 2019 1755-263X
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- Rights
- Open Access
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de Vos, Alta (Dr)
RU DST/NRF SARChI for Interdisciplinary Science in Land and Natural Resource Use for Sustainable Livelihoods
RU Department of Environmental Science
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