located in the buffer zone of Carrasco National Park – the most threatened and biodiversity-rich protected areas in Bolivia …

The ongoing Forest Biodiversity Programme METSO largely relies on voluntary participation of family forest owners. In … the METSO programme, forest owners have the power to decide upon conservation, in contrast to traditional top …-down programmes. Forest owners can get advice and information about conservation practices from a wide range of forestry and …

. Thus, the study provides insights which may guide conservation authorities on how to target their actions so that they … economic evaluations of conservation targets could be included in such conservation policy analysis. …

the need for biodiversity conservation, groundwater protection and recreation. The aim is to discuss if spatial variation …Within conservation literature increasing attention is on conservation opportunity valuing actual implementation …. Previously focus has been on conservation priority among areas with the highest biological value or lowest cost. However, when …

”narrow ” biodiversity focus to broader ecosystem services approach are already being taken into account in prospecting … “socio-economic turn” in biodiversity based environmental policies in Finland. Ecosystem goods and services will also play …

of biodiversity. The mechanism includes ecological and economic risks, and thus the possible implementation in Finland … compensate direct or indirect ecological harms caused to conservation areas e.g. by large scale infrastructural development …

In Scandinavia a widely adopted biodiversity maintenance measure in managed forests is to leave retention trees to the … the retention trees. The attitudes of forest owners in Finland towards biodiversity issues in managed forests and their … general, forest owners' attitudes were positive but their level of knowledge on biodiversity issues was moderately low. There …