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Briefing on protected area opportunities and implications arising from all the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and targets, and how these link to the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) and their specialist groups and task forces. 

Conservation of cultural and natural values can highly benefit from dual designations under the Ramsar and World Heritage conventions, finds a new report released today.Click on the link below to read the full article and to access the full report mentioned.

The parks protect a combined area in the Pacific Ocean more than twice the size of Germany.Click on the link below to read the full story.

With the launch of the Restoration Opportunities Optimisation Tool (ROOT), the world has a better way of making decisions on ecosystem services, specifically in support of the people who actually rely on them. Click on the link below for more details.

The Conservation and Environment Protection Authority is now keen to upgrade all its national parks and conservations areas, Environment Minister John Pundari said in Parliament.Click on the link below to read the full story.

IUCN Oceania and CEPF are accepting proposals from 8th September until 25th October 2017. Letters of Inquiry (LoIs) are invited from civil society groups in the islands region of Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu.

Every four years IUCN hosts a World Conservation Congress (WCC) which brings together thousands of leaders and decision-makers from government, civil society, indigenous groups, business and academia from around the planet to discuss the most pressing environmental issues of our time...The Hawai'

..."other effective area-based conservation measures" or OECMs, namely areas outside state-governed protected areas that are nevertheless high in biodiversity.

Tourism is central to economies around the world. The sector generates 10 per cent of the world"s Gross Development Product, 30 per cent of global trade in services, and 1 out of every 10 jobs.

We are seeking a postdoctoral research fellow to join a social science project examining the role of philanthropic foundations in environmental governance.