A type of park created for the animals and birds to protect them from extinction that is the park created for the conservation and preservation of a large variety of fauna. National parks are having a lot of importance in these days, as they are protecting the animals to be hunted down by people. In national park, the animals and birds are kept like as they are in the forest but with protection. High-impact journals are those considered to be highly influential in their respective fields. The impact factor of journal provides quantitative assessment tool for grading, evaluating, sorting and comparing journals of similar kind. It reflects the average number of citations to recent articles published in science and social science journals in a particular year or period, and is frequently used as a proxy for the relative importance of a journal within its field. It is first devised by Eugene Garfield, the founder of the Institute for Scientific Information. The impact factor of a journal is evaluated by dividing the number of current year citations to the source items published in that journal during the previous two years. The International Seminar on National Parks and other Protected Areas provides a setting for discussion of some of the fundamental issues in protected areas policy and management. In addition to the formal technical programmes of the seminar, some key issues raised informally during the 20th seminar were: the problem of recreation; the cultural specificity of park systems; conservation and religion; the effects of the increasing role of women in park management; and the importance of international input.

Climate change accelerates the vulnerability of resources that are of great importance to the lives of communities in many parts of the world. This study aims to analyze the vulnerability and adaptation to climate change of local populations in and around marine protected areas (MPAs) in Senegal. The methodology is based on Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) and the CRISTAL tool used to assess the vulnerability of communities and adaptation strategies. The Climate Information Portal (CIP) has been used to make projections of rainfall and temperature; allowing projections to be ‘downscaled’ to local areas. The results show that the riparian communities of three MPAs (Bamboung, Joal-Fadiouth and Cayar) are facing climate and non-climate vulnerabilities. Strategies for current and potential adaptation options have been identified to overcome the various hazards and these are outlined. Strategies are designed to contribute to the sustainable improvement of the living conditions of communities around the MPAs.