Buffer Zone Delineation at Conservation Reserve

Stakeholders play an important role towards the Conservation Reserve Buffer Zone. Their perspectives with regards to the concept and delineation criteria of BZ are important and may reduce the conflict of interest between livelihood of the people and conservation objectives of the CR. This paper describes the pilot findings of in-depth interviews with the key stakeholders of two important CR in Malaysia. The findings shows that they understand the concept of BZ differently and there are disputes and agreements on delineation criteria and factors affecting the criteria.