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Protected Areas in the World:  Current State and Prospects

International Nature Conservation

authors: Jan Plesník, František Pelc

Protected Areas in the World:  Current State and Prospects

When one says “nature conservation”, many people recall various boards with a notice “protected area”. It is no surprise. Not only in the Czech Republic territorial protection or area-base conservation is among the oldest and at the same time most common approaches in protection, conservation and management of natural and landscape heritage. Moreover, there have been recently appearing various opinions whether protected areas really fulfil their mandate and whether area-based conservationdeserves at least a significant renovation (BHOLA et al. 2020, FENG et al. 2021, WALSH 2021, JONES et al. 2022, RAYMOND et al. 2022, ROBSON et al. 2022, WAUCHOPE et al. 2022, WILLIAMS et al. 2022, ZENG et al. 2022). This prompts the question about the current state of the art in global protected area network and in particularly what we have known on its real effectiveness. 

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International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora in the Czech Republic, European Un

International Nature Conservation

authors: Jan Plesník, Silvie Ucová, Barbora Kameniecká, Jakub Makal, Lenka Čolobentičová

International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora in the Czech Republic, European Un

The trade in wildlife, its parts and products is at least as old as recorded humankind´s history. Without wishing to start thoughtful intellectual considerations we would like to stress that it had initially been a swap or a barter, later accompanied by monetary trade which consequently mostly replaced the former. Wildlife trade has recently been moving increasingly to the Internet. 

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