Journal of Natural Environment

Evaluation of the "hunting prohibited region" to promote it to the "Protected Area" ( A case study on Sefidkoohe Aresk hunting prohibited region in Damghan)

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Department of Environmental Science, Graduate School of the Environment and Energy, Tehran Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

2 Department of Environment, Roudehen branch, Islamic Azad University, Roudehen, Iran

Abstract

Abstract
Considering the fast-growing destruction of natural resources and the existing threats ‎to bio-diversification, the necessity of investigating and elevating the conservation level of such areas ‎ has become a challenge. This research which was conducted in ‎SefidKooh Aresk prohibited hunting area in Damghan, is intended to investigate the ‎possibility of elevating its conservation level from a "Prohibited Hunting Area" to a ‎‎"Conserved Area". Rather than the normal practices applied for investigating the ‎conservation level, this research utilized a systematic approach to identify the status of ‎the region and to find the possible ways for its elevation. For this purpose, a combination of "Carlos ‎RiveroBlanco, Blanco and Mario Gabaldon" and "SumerGulez" valuation method ‎criteria is used at the first step. The importance of each criterion in relation to the ‎objective of the research is determined using Delphi method. The "one sample chi-‎square test" is used to analyze the outcomes of Delphi questionnaires. At the next ‎step, the final criteria were sent to the local experts in the form of questionnaire for ‎further examination of the region and its situation. The final level of the region was ‎determined through the outcomes of such study. To assess the above mentioned evaluation, the ‎research team tested some scenarios to examine the closest scenarios to the assessed ‎score by using T-test with two samples. The final result of this test indicates its ‎proximity to the score of appropriate situation scenario. Therefore, it is concluded that ‎the situation of the investigated region is appropriate for being elevated to a Conserved Area.‎
 

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Journal of Natural Environment
Volume 68, Issue 1 - Serial Number 1
June 2015
Pages 53-65