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Understanding Sustainable Development — Agenda 21
<br />Understanding Sustainable Development — Agenda 21
<br />Simulated Reserve and Corridor System to Protect Biodiversity
<br />As Required by the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, Wildlands Project,
<br />UN and US Man and Biosphere Programs and World Heritage Program as a
<br />Vital Step in Attaining Sustainable Development
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<br />Little to no human use
<br />Buffer Zones - Highly Regulated Use
<br />Border 21/La Paz Sidebar Agreement
<br />S of NAFTA-200 Mile Wide International
<br />Zone of Cooperation
<br />Normal Use
<br />Indian Reservations
<br />Military Reservations
<br />In Smart Growth - Human Settlements
<br />Taken From: The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, Article 8a-e; United Nations Global Biodiversity
<br />Assessment, Section 13.4.2.2.3; US Man and the Biosphere Strategic Plan, UN/US Heritage Corridor Program, "The
<br />Wildlands Project,' WildEarth, 1992. Also see Science, "The High Cost of Biodiversity,' 25 June, 1993, pp 1968-1871
<br />and the Border 21 Sidebar of NAFTA. The very high percentage of buffer zone in the West is due to the very high
<br />percentage of federal land. NOTE: Do not use this map for real estate purposes.
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<br />Image 3: Prepared by Dr. Michael Coffman, Environmental Perspectives, Inc.
<br />are systematically being restricted and closed to use.
<br />"Conservation biologists now agree that protecting isolated pockets
<br />of habitat isn't enough to protect our bears, jaguars, beavers, birds
<br />and other wildlife — the only way to protect them is to practice
<br />conservation on a continental scale," announced Wildlands
<br />Project Executive Director, Leanne Klyza Linck, at the Society of
<br />Environmental Journalists Conference on September 12, 2003.
<br />The most significant tools of the Wildlands Network is the rapidly
<br />expanding imposition of habitat "protection" provisions under the
<br />Endangered Species Act, the adoption of "conservation easements"
<br />and direct land acquisitions from battered "willing sellers."
<br />The Wildlands Network seeks to collectivize all natural resources
<br />(e.g., water) and centralize all use decisions under bureaucratic
<br />direction, often implemented through public private partnerships.
<br />Smart Growth
<br />The rural land use plan embodied in the Wildlands Network is
<br />inextricably tied to its urban counterpart, Smart Growth. As human
<br />beings are barred from rural land, there will be a concentration
<br />of human activity in urban areas. Through Smart Growth, the
<br />infrastructure is being created for a post -private property era in which
<br />human action is subject to centralized government control. With
<br />the combined implementation of Smart Growth and the Wildlands
<br />Network, humans will be herded into urban centers and the animals
<br />will run free.
<br />Sometimes called "comprehensive planning," "growth management,"26
<br />"New Urbanism," or "Sustainable Communities," Smart Growth
<br />is the centralized control of every aspect of urban life: energy and
<br />water use, housing stock and allocation, population levels and control,
<br />public health and dietary regimens, resources and recycling, "social
<br />justice" and education, toxic technology and waste management,
<br />transportation modes and mobility restrictions, business and economic
<br />activity including capping and trading energy.
<br />Smart Growth policies include:
<br />• Transportation plans that reduce freedom of
<br />mobility, forcing people to live near where they work,
<br />and transforming communities into heavily -regulated
<br />but "self-sufficient" feudalistic "transit villages."
<br />26. "...we call our [U.N. advocated planning] processes something else, such as
<br />comprehensive planning, growth management, or smart growth." Lawrence, J.
<br />Gary, op cit.
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