A Review Discussion on the State of Collaborative Protected Area Management Around the World and Comparison with That of Bangladesh

Abstract

In many cases throughout the world, the establishment of protected areas has failed to achieve the desired outcomes due to a purely ecological focus and a poor recognition of local peoples' rights and involvement. Therefore, various modes of community conservation have become important alternatives to government protected areas; the approach of collaborative management or co-management has come to be widely practiced. Such management approach has been implemented in more than 60 countries with the main objective of promoting sustainable development and biodiversity conservation. In most of the cases, it came out with optimum success, and in others, it could not fully meet the program goals. The co-management program showed its success in the protected areas of Bangladesh, both in terms of community development and biodiversity conservation, as described in the previous chapters. This chapter discusses the continent-wise status of co-management in other countries of the world and a brief comparison was made with that of Bangladesh with a case study analysis of local communities' views about the impact of co-management on the wildlife status of Rema-Kalenga Wildlife Sanctuary.