Stakeholders’ Perspectives of Criteria for Delineation of Buffer Zone at Conservation Reserve: FRIM Heritage Site

A major challenge for conservation reserve (CR) to stay intact is the ever-growing economic activities surrounding it which may pose harmful effects to the area. Worldwide, buffer zone (BZ) is said as one of mechanisms to safeguard the CR. Although its requirement is stated in various international and national policies and regulations, its delineation criteria and approaches are not explicitly mentioned. Since the surrounding areas, so called potential BZs, belong to various stakeholders, this research is conducted to assess the BZ-stakeholders’ relationship and gain consensus among them, and translates it into a set of ideal delineation criteria for BZ.