| Financing protected areas How much does it cost to maintain a protected area? How can the protected area secure funding? Who can and should pay for its conservation? Financing protected areas is a key challenge globally for protected area managers. Hence, it is a core topic of the MSc programme on Management of Protected Areas offered by the University of Klagenfurt, Austria,. Francis Vorhies is a lecturer on this MSc programme and is responsible for the seminar on Financial Foundations of Managing Protected Areas. earthmind.net/parks www.mpa.uni-klu.ac.at |