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Peace and Biodiversity Dialogue Initiative

Transboundary Conservation

Transboundary conservation is a process of cooperation to achieve conservation goals across one or more international boundaries. (Vasilijević et al., 2015). The World Commission on Protected Area’s Transboundary Specialist Group has identified three types of transboundary conservation areas:

 

Source: Vasilijević, M., Zunckel, K., McKinney, M., Erg, B., Schoon, M., Rosen Michel, T. (2015). Transboundary Conservation: A systematic and integrated approach. Best Practice Protected Area Guidelines Series No. 23, Gland, Switzerland: IUCN. xii + 107 pp.