The Turtle Island Heritage Protected Area: The Possibilities and Limits of Transborder Conservation

Abstract

"The paper looks into the history and culture of conservation that inform the TIHP, with emphasis on the roles of states, institutions, and individuals in the movement for trans-border conservation. It tries to point up to the possibilities of managing a transborder marine habitat high in biodiversity, how conservation makes possible transnational linkages, the sharing of knowledges, and the mobilization of various actors and resources for conservation as desired values vis-à-vis the need for settlement and livelihood. It tries as well to show the limits of trans- border conservation obtaining from local conditions that undermine conservation values."