Heritage Sites In Danger The Research Paper

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All of these measures require significant and lasting funding. Current Status

This Park is in a state of crisis. With most of its large mammals now extinct from the Park, and illegal users on the rise, Park Rangers are simply outmatched. Poachers can find a thriving market for illegal bushmeat and rare birds. Illegal loggers easily find buyers for rare trees. The Park is under-staffed and under-funded and soon to face new challenges if the upstream dam is built along the Gambia River as planned.

Conclusion

The Galapagos Islands and the Niokola-Koba National Park represent two of Planet Earth's most valuable treasures. They contain biodiversity that not only provides scientific opportunity but may support the health of the entire ecosystem in their respective regions. Both sites are listed as endangered, but as profiled here, for very different reasons....

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Despite the variation in threats facing these areas, a similar solution will help them both: increased international funding. This funding will be used for desperatately needed increased enforcement and protections.
Works Cited

Novy, Julia W. 2010. Incentive Measures for Conservation of Biodiversity and Sustainability: A Case Study of the Galapagos Islands. United Nations

Environment Program: WWF-USA.

UN Chronicle. 1999. Conservation of Endemic Biodiversity of the Galapagos World

Heritage Site. Available at: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1309/is_3_36/ai_58675442/

United Nations Environment Programme, World Conservation Monitoring Centre.

Niokolo-Koba National Park, Senegal.

UNESCO list of Heritage Sites in Danger. 2010. Available at:

http://whc.unesco.org/en/danger

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Works Cited

Novy, Julia W. 2010. Incentive Measures for Conservation of Biodiversity and Sustainability: A Case Study of the Galapagos Islands. United Nations

Environment Program: WWF-USA.

UN Chronicle. 1999. Conservation of Endemic Biodiversity of the Galapagos World

Heritage Site. Available at: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1309/is_3_36/ai_58675442/
http://whc.unesco.org/en/danger


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