Biodiversity, Community and Conservation Policy

Biodiversity, Community and Conservation Policy: Saving the Philippine Vanishing Treasures through Effective Participation is the author¿s biodiversity research in the Philippines. In its six chapters, the book contains various features of biodiversity from its meaning to its threats and status. More particularly, it presents pressuring issues on the continued loss of biodiversity particularly in the island nation, the Philippines and its defective policies and laws that would persistently sustain the country¿s biodiversity crisis. Additionally, the book discusses the rights of indigenous peoples in the Philippines and their importance as key stakeholders to be included and involved in the decision-making process for the effective conservation of biodiversity. In the final chapter, it presents the implications of the author¿s research study on policy analysis and its recommendations for the improvement of the current policies which are considered to be ineffective and their stipulations on community involvement were described as ¿Tokenisms.¿