A major gap in the available information on the world's protected areas concerns private initiatives in protecting biodiversity. In order to begin to address this gap, a preliminary survey of private protected areas was carried out in some East and Southern African countries. This pilot study demonstrates the significant contribution of private initiatives to national protected area systems and underlines the importance of extending this survey to entire regions, as part of a global review of the role private protected areas.

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