| Abstract |
Conservation of biodiversity remains paramount on the global agenda, and has over 190 nations subscribed to its implementation (United Nations Environment Programme [UNEP] 2011). Biodiversity coined from ‘biological diversity’ refers to the variety of life (Sands and Galizzi 2004), whilst conservation refers to all actions taken to preserve flora and fauna and their natural habitats. Most nations have responded to conservation of biodiversity by setting aside large tracts of land, called protected areas, where various conservation actions are taken. In these protected areas, the human footprint is minimized and thus, pressure from anthropogenic and non-anthropogenic activities is ideally minimal. Despite the existence of these protected areas and their increase in surface area globally, biodiversity continues to decline and has been more so in the last four decades (Woodley and Langhammer 2017). |
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