page_title: Landscape-scale conservation
section_title: Thailand
hierarchical_section_title: Landscape-scale conservation / Regional / Thailand
caption_attribution_description: English: Panorama of the mountainous countryside approximately 5.5 km south of Mae Salong Nok during the rainy season, 1 June, 2014, at 12:50 (exif date incorrect). On the left, in the distance, a downpour, and on the right sunshine. View from road 1089. The village of Mae Salong Nok (also known as just "Mae Salong", or "Santikhiri") can be seen in the distance on the right side of the image. The mountain located right of the centre of the image, is Doi Mae Salong itself. This image was created with Hugin
context_page_description: Landscape-scale conservation is a holistic approach to landscape management, aiming to reconcile the competing objectives of nature conservation and economic activities across a given landscape. Landscape-scale conservation may sometimes be attempted because of climate change. It can be seen as an alternative to site based conservation.
  Many global problems such as poverty, food security, climate change, water scarcity, deforestation and biodiversity loss are connected. For example, lifting people out of poverty can increase consumption and drive climate change. Expanding agriculture can exacerbate water scarcity and drive habitat loss. Proponents of landscape management argue that as these problems are interconnected, coordinated approaches are needed to address them, by focussing on how landscapes can generate multiple benefits. For example, a river basin can supply water for towns and agriculture, timber and food crops for people and industry, and habitat for biodiversity; and each one of these users can have impacts on the others.
context_section_description: An example of cooperation between very different actors is from the Doi Mae Salong watershed in northwest Thailand, a Military Reserved Area under the control of the Royal Thai Armed Forces. Reforestation activities led to tension with local hill tribes. In response, an agreement was reached with them on land rights and use of different parts of the reserve.
caption: Doi Mae Salong landscape in Thailand is managed by agreement between the army and local hill tribes.
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