August 4, 2023
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In the accelerated push towards conserving 30% of the Earth's land and water by 2030, asking who, as well as what, is on the map must be at the heart of the conversation.
July 28, 2023
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In a moment of true significance, the District of ‘Nadogo’, aptly named ‘The Mangrove’ in indigenous Fijian, commemorated this year’s World Mangrove Day with an extraordinary milestone—the formal declaration of its inaugural permanent community island protected area.
July 6, 2023
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Victor Bonito takes the concept of working from home to new levels. The marine scientist's house overlooks his lab: the beautiful turquoise-blue waters of Fiji's Coral Coast.
Participatory monitoring drives biodiversity knowledge in global protected areas
Protected areas are central in strategies to conserve biodiversity. Effective area-based conservation relies on biodiversity data, but the current biodiversity knowledge base is insufficient and limited by geographic and taxonomic biases. Public participation in biodiversity monitoring such as via community-based monitoring or citizen science increases data collection but also contributes to replicating these biases or introducing new ones.
June 28, 2023
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A new international study has found that amphibians and reptiles inhabiting the world's nature reserves, or Protected Areas (PAs), will be better protected against climate change than species found outside these areas, but are still likely to be harmed.
June 28, 2023
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By 2030, if the "30 by 30" initiative supported by more than 100 countries is successful, 30% of our land and ocean ecosystems will be designated protected areas meant to safeguard biodiversity and help limit the impacts of climate change.
A Comparative Analysis of Protected Area Management Effectiveness (PAME) Evaluation Tools for the Pacific Islands Region
Protected Area Management Effectiveness (PAME) can be defined as the extent to which management is protecting values and achieving goals and objectives. The report also reviews attempts to develop headline indicators that would provide essential PAME information for a site, given the challenge of balancing the number of questions and indicators needed for a full assessment with the limited capacity.Call Number: [EL]ISBN/ISSN: 978-982-04-1181-4,978-982-04-1183-8Physical Description: 102 p. 29 cm
A Comparative Analysis of Protected Area Management Effectiveness (PAME) Evaluation Tools for the Pacific Islands Region
This report was commissioned by the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) to raise awareness and understanding of the tools available to evaluate Protected Area Management Effectiveness (PAME); to provide case studies from the region on PAME assessment; and to help inform decision-making when choosing tools and planning assessments.
Gaps and weaknesses in the global protected area network for safeguarding at-risk species
Protected areas are essential to biodiversity conservation. Creating new parks can protect larger populations and more species, yet strengthening existing parks, particularly those vulnerable to harmful human activities, is a critical but underappreciated step for safeguarding at-risk species. Here, we model the area of habitat that terrestrial mammals, amphibians, and birds have within park networks and their vulnerability to current downgrading, downsizing, or de-gazettement events and future land-use change.
June 9, 2023
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Cepa sustainable programmes director Kay Kalim told the 3rd National Protected Area Forum in Port Moresby that the protected areas communities around the country are the guardians of PNG’s future and economic sustain-ability of land and sea use.