For many managers of protected areas, the issue that is often of greatest concern is how protected areas relate to local people – most importantly Indigenous Peoples and local and mobile communities. This volume in IUCN’s Best Practice Guideline Series has been designed to offer ideas and concrete advice on ways to enhance the equity of that relationship, and to make it work better for conservation. The following audiences have been kept particularly in mind:
– staff of protected area agencies at all levels, whether working at national or site level,
– staff of conservation or development NGOs, whether working at international, national or site levels,
– community leaders,
– local conservation committees,
– policy makers and legislators who shape the framework for protected areas.