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This work is in accordance with new tourist trends in mature sun and beach tourism destinations where demand is increasing and requiring alternative products and experiences. These new tourist products are framed, in many occasions, in the heritage exploitation of protected areas. In this sense, geoheritage is conformed as a resource of heritage value, since to natural value are linked and use and management values as well. This research proposes to obtain the geomorphological heritage of forty-three natural protected areas (NPA) from Tenerife island and asses its potential as a geotourist resource that diversifies and enriches the tourist offer on the island. The methodology used is based on the combination of intrinsic or scientific, added and use and management values of the NPA from Tenerife. In general, the studied sites show the volcanic geodiversity of Tenerife and the mean geoheritage values, follow of low and high scores. From the inventory and diagnosis of geoheritage of the forty-three NPA of Tenerife, it can be defined some proposals to improve their management, through recreational activities as geotourism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A paper published in 2019 in the journal Science concludes that Peru starred in 61 events to reduce the level of protection and size as well as to eliminate protected areas (events known by the acronym PADDD). That would place the country among those that most mistreat their protected areas. But, in Peru only one case is known. When reviewing the study methodology, it is confirmed that the authors misinterpreted the information, especially referring to national forests that in Peru have never been considered protected areas. It's seems the authors exaggerated the arguments to demonstrate the significance of PADDD. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Tropical dry forest (TDF) is important due to its biodiversity. In the Isthmus-Coastal region of the state of Oaxaca, in Southeast Mexico, there are many areas of TDF with varying categories of legal protection (1) Protected Natural Areas (PNA), (2) Voluntarily Designated Conservation Areas (VDCA) and (3) Areas of Common Use (ACU). In each of these, tree vegetation structure was analysed, recording plants with a DBH = 2.5 cm and sampling 15 plots of 100 m². Observed richness was 90 species, belonging to 36 families and corresponding to 80% (Jackknife) and 85% (ICE) of expected richness. A cluster analysis identified two groups with 90% dissimilitude: the first (G1) included all the sampled plots in the PNA; and the second (G2), grouped together those from the VDCA and the ACU. The Shannon, Simpson dominance and Jost true diversity indices for G1 were H'= 2.43, D= 0.21 and qD= 11 and for G2, H'= 2.76, D= 0.28 and qD= 15 respectively, with no differences between groups (P < 0.05). The species that presented the highest relative importance value (RIV) in both groups, corresponded to secondary vegetation. Species density of G1 was 1 829 ind/ha and 2 370 ind/ha for G2. Mean height (6.8 m) and basal area (19.7 m²/ha) of G1 did not vary significantly (P < 0.05) when compared to G2 (7.9 m y 22.1 m2/ha). The VDCA and ACU presented similar composition and structure, differing from the PNA. Continual monitoring of the TDF is suggested. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The establishment of a protected area installs new rules over the use and management of natural resources, modifying how people relate to their environment, as well as the way in which the space is comprehended and constructed. How does this process occur? How does the creation of protected natural areas transform or disrupt territories? The hypothesis that we present in this work is that the creation of protected areas, when it does not include local consensus and negotiation processes, may result in dynamics of deterritorialization, creating what Marc Augé (1993) referred to as non-places. From this perspective, we explain the meagre results both social and environmental of some natural protected areas in Mexico, and propose a vision of conservation focused in places, according to the anthropological connotation of the term. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]