IUCN will mark World Heritage Day with a PANORAMA webinar focussing on nature"s iconic treasures.
...a new list being developed by the IUCN aims to highlight positive steps being taken around the world to protect nature.Click on the link below to read the full story.
Researchers with the EU-funded TRECKQUITY project have developed a new approach for tracking the achievement of multidimensional social equity in the world"s protected areas.Click on the link below to read the full article.
Queensland's Labor government this month tabled a bill to tighten the regulation of land clearing. Queensland is by far the worst offender in this area, following a litany of reversals of vegetation protection.Click on the link below to read the full story.
Protecting important sites is a key strategy for halting the loss of biodiversity. However, our understanding of the relationship between management inputs and biodiversity outcomes in protected areas (PAs) remains weak.Click on the link below to read the full article.
Protected areas across the world are most threatened by unsustainable resource use and human disturbance, a new study has found.Click on the link below to read the full story.
Protected areas (PAs) represent a cornerstone of efforts to safeguard biodiversity, and if effective should reduce threats to biodiversity.
The global portfolio of protected areas is growing rapidly, despite widely recognized shortfalls in management effectiveness.
Connectivity of protected areas (PAs) is crucial for meeting their conservation goals.
To find out if terrestrial protected areas are effective in achieving their environmental and socioeconomic goals, we read 56 scientific studies...Overall, protected areas do appear to reduce forest cover loss.
