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	Biosphere Reserves
		A biosphere reserve is a unique concept which includes one or more protected areas and surrounding lands that are managed to combine both conservation and sustainable use of natural resources.
		'Biosphere Reserve' is an international designation made by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) on the basis of nominations submitted by countries participating in the Man and the Biosphere Program (MAB).
		Biosphere Reserves act as a keystone of MAB by providing a global network of sites for cooperative research toward this end.
	www.deh.gov.au /parks/biosphere (412 words)

	IUCN WCPA Task Force Biosphere Reserves
		The six biosphere reserves are Pendjari in Benin, the Mare aux Hippopotames in Burkina Faso, Comoé in Côte d'Ivoire, Boucle du Baoulé in Mali, Niokolo Koba in Senegal and the 'W' biosphere reserve in Niger.
		Biosphere reserves operate under a unique zoning system of conservation in the core area and socio-economic activities in the transition area.
		Biosphere reserves are nominated by the countries concerned as pilot sites for conserving biological diversity and promoting sustainable development for rural communities, backed up by scientific research and training.
	www.iucn.org /themes/wcpa/theme/biosphere/biosphere.html (1218 words)

	Tibet Environmental Watch - Reports - Archived
		The new biosphere reserves and extensions were approved by the Bureau of the International Co-ordinating Council of UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme at its meeting on July 8-11 at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris.
		Biosphere Reserves are pilot sites, which perform three complementary functions: biodiversity conservation; development (integrating local communities) and logistic support (combining research, education, training and monitoring).
		The biosphere reserves approved this year demonstrate an increasing interest in using the biosphere reserve approach to reconcile conservation and development in coastal areas and archipelagoes, and in protecting cultural values dependant on the maintenance of certain traditional uses.
	www.tew.org /archived/unesco.yading.reserve.html (830 words)

	welcome to ranong
		The Ranong Biosphere Reserve (RBS) is in Ranong Province, southern Thailand, on the west coast of the Peninsula, Thailand ; 650 km south of Bangkok and 300 km north of Phuket.
		By placing biosphere reserves under the stewardship of the government and local people, one of the reserve's major goals is to become a model of land management and of approaches to sustainable development.
		"Biosphere reserves make it clear that any action taken for the conseravtion of natural resources and their use on a sustainable basis must be orrted in the traditions of the societies concerned and enjoy their full support.
	www.ranong.go.th /english/biosphere.html (2743 words)

	UK Biosphere Reserves Review
		The core area(s) of a biosphere reserve must be "legally constituted (and) devoted to long-term protection, according to the conservation objectives of the biosphere reserve, and of sufficient size to meet these objectives" (sec.
		Any biosphere reserve must have one or more clearly-identified core area(s) and buffer zone(s), a "management policy or plan for the area as a biosphere reserve", and "a designated authority or mechanism to implement this policy or plan" (sec 7 [b, c]).
		Funding for biosphere reserves should be long-term and drawn from a partnership of organisations, including government departments, counties and other local authorities and, where possible, non-governmental organisations, as well as the private sector.
	www.defra.gov.uk /wildlife-countryside/ukmab/BRReport/guidelines.htm (1260 words)

	UK Biosphere Reserves Review
		Biosphere reserves are areas nominated by national governments and designated under the Man and the Biosphere (MAB) programme of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO).
		The emphasis of the biosphere reserve concept has shifted from the promotion of conservation, science, and education to the notion of "sites of excellence to explore and demonstrate approaches to conservation and sustainable development on a regional scale" within a global network providing unique opportunities for exchanges of experience and collaborative research.
		For UNESCO to recognise an area as a biosphere reserve, a number of criteria should be fulfilled, both for the area as a whole and with regard to the three zones.
	www.defra.gov.uk /wildlife-countryside/ukmab/BRReport/execsum.htm (1414 words)

	UNESCO's World Network of Biosphere Reserves Expands
		The new biosphere reserves and extensions were approved by the Bureau of UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme International Co-ordinating Council at its meeting on November last week at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris.
		This vast biosphere reserve ranges from the dry area of northeast Brazil to humid rain forest in the middle section, and the temperate forest of Southern Brazil.
		It is adjacent to the Niokolo Koba Biosphere Reserve in Senegal.
	www.ens-newswire.com /ens/nov2002/2002-11-12-02.asp (1342 words)

	CBRA - ACRB: What are Biosphere Reserves?
		A biosphere reserve is an identified geographic area where people exemplify various ways to sustain local economies and resource use while also conserving the biological diversity (biodiversity) found in different kinds of ecosystems.
		The Seville conference was an occasion to review the experience from using the biosphere reserve concept throughout the world, to develop a strategy statement concerning the further development of biosphere reserves, and to finalize a Statutory Framework that set out the conditions for the functioning of the World Network of Biosphere Reserves.
		Generally, it is expected that the organizational arrangements for each biosphere reserve will help assure the development of a fully-functioning biosphere reserve, that is, one carrying out cooperative approaches for research, monitoring, educational and demonstration activities directed towards local or larger scale issues of conservation and sustainable use.
	www.biosphere-canada.ca /what_are_br.htm (996 words)

	UNESCO Protects 19 New Biosphere Reserves
		Biosphere reserves are places recognized by the Man and the Biosphere Programme where local communities are actively involved in governance and management, research, education, training and monitoring in the interests of both sustainable use and biodiversity conservation.
		It complements the adjacent West Polesie Biosphere Reserve in Poland and the Shatsky Biosphere Reserve in Ukraine.
		The Biosphere Reserve seeks to integrate and coordinate sustainable agricultural practices with the preservation of caves and local hydrological processes, controlling surface and subsurface pollution from fertilizers and waste-water.
	www.ens-newswire.com /ens/nov2004/2004-11-02-04.asp (1732 words)

	The Seville Strategy
		Biosphere reserves promote this integrated approach and are thus well-placed to contribute to the implementation of the Convention.
		Biosphere reserves are "areas of terrestrial and coastal/marine ecosystems, or a combination thereof, which are internationally recognized within the framework of UNESCO's Programme on Man and the Biosphere (MAB)" (Statutory Framework of the World Network of Biosphere Reserves).
		Biosphere reserves should be used to further our understanding of humanity's relationship with the natural world, through programmes of public awareness, information, formal and informal education, based on a long-term, inter-generational perspective.
	www.sovereignty.net /p/land/mab-sev.htm (4474 words)

	ACC Network UNESCO
		Biosphere Reserves are areas of terrestrial and coastal/marine ecosystems where, through appropriate zoning patterns and management mechanisms, the conservation of ecosystems and their biodiversity are combined with the sustainable use of natural resources for the benefit of local communities, including relevant research, monitoring, education and training activities.
		In the Bia Biosphere Reserve in Ghana, the national BRAAF group promoted the introduction of snail (Acatina acatina) farming around the national park, and introduced apiculture and mushroom collecting in the future buffer zone of the reserve as a means to reduce the pressure on the park's resources.
		Networking among scientists and biosphere reserve managers was a key element in the success of the BRAAF project.
	www.rdfs.net /OLDsite/en/themes/unesco-e.htm (2362 words)

	The UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Program: What’s It All About?
		A biosphere reserve is a unique kind of protected area that differs from a national park, wilderness area, national forest, or wildlife refuge in havingthree very different, but equal, aims: conservation of genetic resources, species, and ecosystems; scientific research and monitoring; and promoting sustainable development in communities of the surrounding region.
		Biosphere reserves are meant to be places where communities can work in concert with the area’s land-managing agencies, local governments, schools, and other institutions to design responses to external political, economic, and social pressures that affect the ecological and cultural values of the area.
		The Statutory Framework of the World Network of Biosphere Reserves
	www.georgewright.org /mab.html (6028 words)

	Seville Strategy
		Encourage interactions between the World Biosphere Reserve Network and other research and education networks, and facilitate the use of the biosphere reserves for collaborative research projects of consortia of universities and other institutions of higher learning and research, in the private as well as public sector, and at non-governmental as well as governmental levels.
		Use biosphere reserves for basic and applied research, particularly projects with a focus on local issues, interdisciplinary projects incorporating both the natural and the social sciences, and projects involving the rehabilitation of degraded ecosystems, the conservation of soils and water and the sustainable use of natural resources.
		Use the reserve as an experimental area for the development and testing of methods and approaches for the evaluation and monitoring of biodiversity, sustainability and quality of life of its inhabitants.
	www.sovereignty.net /tline/seville-strategy.htm (2640 words)

	NPS: Nature & Science » Global Conservation: International Biosphere Reserves (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Biosphere reserves are internationally recognized terrestrial and coastal or marine areas where management seeks to achieve sustainable use of natural resources while ensuring conservation of the biological diversity of the areas.
		Biosphere reserves are nominated by national governments for inclusion in the world network of biosphere reserves.
		Forty-seven biosphere reserves are recognized in the United States, with 23 involving 30 units of the national park system.
	www.nature.nps.gov /globalconservation/biosphere.cfm (192 words)

	Ubsu-Nur Accepted into World Network of Biosphere Reserves
		At the end of October, their efforts paid off when both the Ubsu-Nur Biosphere Reserve in Tuva and the Ubsu-Nur Basin Cluster Biosphere Reserve in Mongolia were approved by the MAB Bureau for inclusion in its network.
		The MAB Bureau is encouraging further transfrontier cooperation between the two reserves, with the ultimate goal of creating a single transfrontier biosphere reserve with joint management.
		Jane Robertson, a program specialist at the World Network of Biosphere Reserves, noted that although full responsibility for the management of the reserves will still be up to the individual countries and they can expect no direct funding from UNESCO, UNESCO can help facilitate projects and sometimes help to implement them as well.
	www.isar.org /pubs/ST/RUubsunur49.html (789 words)

	PIB Press Release
		The biosphere reserves, which are under world network of Biosphere Reserves, are Sundarbans, Gulf of Mannar, Nilgiri and Nanda Devi.
		Similipal Biosphere Reserve is part of Mayurbhanj District in Orissa.
		Biosphere Reserves are areas of terrestrial and coastal ecosystems, which are internationally recognized within the framework of UNESCO’s Man and Biosphere (MAB) programme.
	pib.nic.in /release/release.asp?relid=18525 (344 words)

	FOREST BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY - Unasylva 209
		One example is the Clayoquot Sound Biosphere Reserve on Vancouver Island, Canada, once a crisis spot of conflicts between the logging industry and environmental activists, coupled with a social movement seeking enhanced status and livelihoods for the indigenous people.
		The biosphere reserve approach is being used to create job opportunities and to create a forest management structure that takes account of the multiple interests, and to forge new alliances between the public and private sectors.
		In summary, the World Network for Biosphere Reserves is an operational structure for promoting action and exchange of experience in the conservation, sustainable use and benefit sharing of forest biodiversity.
	www.fao.org /docrep/004/y3582e/y3582e12.htm (780 words)

	25/3/2002 -- New Biosphere Reserves Created in Poland and Ukraine
		UNESCO's biosphere reserve concept is being used as a framework to accommodate the different interests and users of the protected ecosystems, including nature conservation, improving livelihoods for local inhabitants and carrying out scientific research and education.
		The World Network of Biosphere Reserves covers areas or territories which encompass terrestrial or coastal ecosystems, and are "intended to reconcile biodiversity conservation with the rational use of biological resources," UNESCO says.
		The World Network of Biosphere Reserves was created in 1976 by UNESCO's Man and Biosphere Programme, an international program of research, education, and distribution of data concerning the biosphere.
	forests.org /articles/reader.asp?linkid=9264 (707 words)

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		It uses its World Network of Biosphere Reserves as vehicles for knowledge-sharing, research and monitoring, education and training, and participatory decision-making.
		Establishing this coordinated World Network was one of the first MAB projects.
		The Network was consisted of sites representing the main ecosystems of the planet in which genetic resources would be protected, and where research on ecosystems as well as monitoring and training work could be carried out.
	home.planet.nl /~ooije290/subject_man_and_biosphere.htm (348 words)

	Biosphere Reserves: Site Support and Interventions
		In the World Network of Biosphere Reserves (459 sites in 97 countries as of 30 November 2004), more than 89 sites are in Asia and the Pacific, constituting a large system for UNESCO related conservation and sustainable development actions.
		Some of the Biosphere Reserves are facing strong management challenges, including land encroachment, illegal logging (sometimes `legal` but destructive logging practices), unsustainable agricultural practices in buffer zones and lack of proper mechanisms and institutional capacities to manage Biosphere Reserves.
		These Biosphere Reserves are strongly contributing to the national and local conservation and economic development, especially eco-tourism in cooperation with natural heritage and protected areas throughout the country.
	www.unesco.or.id /activities/science/env_sci/sitsup_env/101.php (1027 words)

	UNESCO, People Biodiversity and Ecology
		Biosphere reserves are sites recognized under UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere Programme which innovate and demonstrate approaches to conservation and sustainable development.
		They are of course under national sovereign jurisdiction, yet share their experience and ideas nationally, regionally and internationally within the World Network of Biosphere Reserves.
		Biosphere reserves are much like laboratories where new and optimal practices to manage nature and human activities are tested and demonstrated.
	www.unesco.org /mab/BRs.shtml (313 words)

	The Korea Times : NK Mountain Becomes UNESCO's Biosphere Reserve (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		It is the second biosphere reserve in the North following Mt. Paekdu, which was chosen in 1989.
		The Mt. Kuwol biosphere reserve includes the mountain, with its peak at a height of 954 meters above sea level, and the surrounding wetlands for a total of 500 square kilometers.
		UNESCO's world network of biosphere reserves is one of the world's three nature protection programs officially recognized by global organizations, along with the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands and Natural World Heritage.
	times.hankooki.com /lpage/nation/200410/kt2004103116440411990.htm (355 words)

	Réserve de Biosphère Transfrontalière
		The world network's working rules are laid down in the Statutory Framework; UNESCO's MAB Secretariat ensures the Network's coordination.
		The biosphere reserves generally work together within regional networks: EUROMAB bringing together those in Europe and North America, IBEROMAB those in Latin America, Portugal and Spain, AFRIMAB those in French-speaking Africa, BRAAF those in English-speaking Africa, and EASBR those in East Asia.
		The network also facilitates the twinning of biosphere reserves such as those in the Cevennes in France and Montseny in Spain.
	www.biosphere-vosges-pfaelzerwald.org /_uk/html/mab/reseaux.htm (197 words)

	United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) - The World Network of Biosphere Reserves (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Biosphere Reserves are areas of terrestrial or coastal ecosystems which are internationally recognized within United Nations Educational,Scientific and Cultural Organization's(UNESCO) Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Program for promoting and demonstrating a balanced relationship between people and nature.
		Within this network, exchanges of information, experience and personnel are promoted, in particular among Biosphere Reserves with similar ecosystem types and/or with experience in solving similar conservation and development problems.
		The World Network of Biosphere Reserves thus contributes to meeting the objectives of the Convention on Biological Diversity and Agenda 21, resulting from the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development.
	www.ec.gc.ca /press/000505-4_b_e.htm (214 words)

	CUBES, Columbia University/UNESCO Joint Program on Biosphere and Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The UBG was established to further develop a conceptual framework for the application of the Biosphere Reserve concept to specific urban areas.
		The Biosphere Reserve process has the potential to provide urban stakeholders with a tool-box for conflict mediation, education, and outreach, as well as biodiversity conservation and long term data observatory for ecological trends.
		The New York Urban Biosphere Group was formed as an outcome of the International Conference on Biodiversity and Society held at Columbia University in May 2001.
	www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu /cubes/groups/urbanbio.html (1081 words)

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