Financing Protected Areas

Guidelines for Protected Area Managers

Financing Protected Areas Task Force of the World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) of IUCN, in collaboration with the Economics Unit of IUCN

Adrian Phillips, Series Editor


Cover photo:
Front cover:  Dusky dolphin and tourist boat, Kaikoura, New Zealand. WWF/Steve Dawson.

Cover design by:
IUCN Publications Services Unit

DOI:10.2305/IUCN.CH.2000.PAG.5.en
ISBN: 2-8317-0544-4


Best Practice Protected Area Guidelines Series No. 5


World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA)

IUCN - The World Conservation Union 2000


 Index

Foreword

Information for this Title

Acknowledgements

PART A  Developing a financial strategy

1. Protected areas and finance

2. A business approach to protected areas

3. Developing and financing a business

4. Summary

PART B  Information on financing

1. Introduction

2. International sources of funding for protected areas

3. National-level mechanisms

4. Site-level mechanisms

PART C  Case studies

1. A national system of raising money for conservation in New Zealand

2. Contribution of ecotourism activities within the KwaZulu-Natal Nature Conservation Service

3. Compensation for environmental services from mountain forests in Costa Rica

Bibliography