International Transborder Protected Areas: Experience, Benefits, And Opportunities‪.‬

Introduction Environmental protection in frontier or border regions has traditionally focussed on two primary issues: air quality and water quality and supply. However, there is a growing recognition that the creation of transborder protected areas can also be an effective method of environmental protection in these regions. A variety of terms have been used to describe these areas including transboundary parks (Kenney, 1990), international peace parks (Carroll, 1979), transfrontier nature reserves (Thorsell and Harrison, 1990), and cross border parks (McNeely, 1993). While the terminology may differ, the concept is the same: parks and protected areas abutting each other at a common political border or single protected areas that cross political boundaries.