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The new Aichi Target 11 Dashboard is now featured on Protected Planet. The Aichi Target 11 Dashboard provides a summary of global, regional and national progress on key elements of Target 11.

Scientists shocked by data showing loss of hard corals at 100 locations across Whitsundays, Magnetic Island, Keppel Islands and Palm Islands. Coral coverage around some of the most popular tourist islands on the Great Barrier Reef has dropped by almost half in the last 18 years, ac

Huge crowds are expected to scramble up Australia's Uluru on Friday before a ban on the climb takes effect. The giant monolith - formerly known as Ayers Rock - will be permanently off limits to visitors from Saturday.

Lt. Gov. Lemanu Palepoi Sialega Mauga wants to find solutions at the “national level” to address “ocean clean-up” instead of just talking about it or leaving it to be a problem for the next generation.

As the state agency tasked with "managing, conserving and restoring Hawaii's aquatic resources and ecosystems for present and future generations," the Division of Aquatic Resources (DAR) is using the ambitious Marine 30x30 Initiative as a springboard to achieve nearshore management that is place-

The 14 member states of the Oceanic Fisheries Management Project (OFMPII) gathered on Tuesday to plan for the final year of the Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) initiative.

You’d be forgiven if you couldn’t find Timor-Leste on a map....thanks to a new effort to combine 12 community-run marine protected areas (MPAs) — areas of the ocean where human activity is restricted, preventing overfishing and keeping the waters healthy — into one large network on the Timorese i

Researchers at the University of Bayreuth have calculated for the first time how climate change is likely to affect the earth's conservation areas by 2070.

It's no secret that the forests of the world are under severe pressure from human activities. We tend to think of tropical forests, and in particular the Amazon, as bearing the brunt of the impacts of deforestation and other drivers of forest clearance.

SPREP is seeking consultancy services to develop a new Framework for Nature Conservation and Protected Areas in the Pacific Islands region (2020-2025) and a high level declaration.