The WWF Cork Oak Landscapes Programme: PES as a tool to enhance conservation?

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2005

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This presentation discusses WWF's Cork Oak programme, highlighting possible opportunities for developing payments for environmental services. It provides an overview of Cork Oak landscapes, describes the biological characteristics and identifies current threats. The goal of the Cork Oak Landscape Programme is to protect, manage, and restore the landscape through capacity building, establishing good practices, providing market support and engaging in policy advocacy.

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Environmental services, Payments for environmental services, Forest management, Conservation, Non-wood forest products, Cork market, Forest fire, Forest conversion, Fire inhibition, Cork oak

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Presented at the WWF Workshop: The Prospects of PES in Europe, Sofia, Bulgaria, 19-20 October 2005