SESSION 3A "Protected Area Rangers on the Front Lines of COVID-19: Opportunities and Challenges" invites you to learn from the experiences of park rangers on the front lines as they face opportunities and challenges due to the current pandemic.
Linking Human Destruction of Nature to COVID‑19 Increases Support for Wildlife Conservation Policies
This paper investigates if narratives varying the cause of the COVID-19 pandemic affects pro-wildlife conservation outcomes. In a pre-registered online experiment (N=1081), we randomly allocated subjects to either a control group or to one of three narrative treatment groups, each presenting a different likely cause of the COVID-19 outbreak: an animal cause; an animal and human cause (AHC); and an animal, human or lab cause.
Audiences shown a video about coral reefs had less willingness to pay (WTP) for conservation than when shown a slideshow of texts and photographs.
World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) Oceania Newsletter No.2, 2020
The second edition of the Newsletter of the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas Oceania (WCPA Oceania) for 2020 is now available.
Japan’s National Ocean Day is a timely reminder of the challenges many countries around the world face in supporting and reviving their ocean economies in the wake of the covid-19 pandemic...Here we explore what opportunities are offered by the economic pause to ignite a sustainable blue recovery
The SIDS have some of the most diverse and unique ecosystems in the world, and are home to a host of rare endemic species.
Next week the Department of Environmental Protection and Conservation (DEPC) will be celebrating the Vanuatu National Environment Week (VNEW) in Port Vila to coincide with World Environment Day (WED) which falls on June 5th every year.
The COVID-19 pandemic is unprecedented in our lifetimes. It is estimated that the pandemic may generate a decline of world trade by a third this year.
Any nature documentary will have plenty of footage of animals going about their daily lives, but it takes a special series to deliver an impactful message alongside that footage.
World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) Oceania Newsletter No.1, 2020
The first edition of the Newsletter of the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas Oceania (WCPA Oceania) for 2020 is now available.