A growing global push to safeguard nature by pledging to protect about a third of the planet’s land and oceans by 2030 will fall short unless biodiversity-rich Southeast Asian nations get behind the ambitious proposal, environmentalists have warned...Cambodia is the only Southeast Asian nation to
Conservation and Environment Protection Authority (CEPA) and Protected Area Solutions hosted a four-day Management Effectiveness Tracking Tool training for landowners of the Mt. Wilhelm protected area recently. the Mt.
Human impacts and Anthropocene environmental change at Lake Kutubu, a Ramsar wetland in Papua New Guinea
The impacts of human-induced environmental change that characterize the Anthropocene are not felt equally across the globe. In the tropics, the potential for the sudden collapse of ecosystems in response to multiple interacting pressures has been of increasing concern in ecological and conservation research. The tropical ecosystems of Papua New Guinea are areas of diverse rainforest flora and fauna, inhabited by human populations that are equally diverse, both culturally and linguistically.
Protected forests are unlikely to be cut down when they are surrounded by intact forests. Conversely, the more degraded the boundaries of a protected area are, the more likely that deforestation will encroach into the protected forest as well.
Six Coromandel kiwi care groups have received more than $1 million to increase the rate of kiwi recovery and expand their area of protection by 10,000 hectares over the next fours years. The $1,041,320 injection was one of 11 Jobs for Nature projects funded by national charity, Kiwis for kiwi.
In July, the U.N. released a draft of the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, which called for 30% of Earth’s land and sea areas to be conserved. Known as “30 by 30,” the plan has drawn fire from Indigenous rights activists and their allies, who say that it could prompt mass evictions.
BIOPAMA will be hosting the following event at the upcoming IUCN World Conservation Congress - 6 September from 19:00 - 21:00 'Celebration of protected and consved areas: Success stories from BIOPAMA and BEST.' at the 'Vital Sites for a Protected Planet' Pavilion event.&nbs
For thousands of years, the natural world has allowed human societies to flourish by providing food, water, and materials for shelter and medicine.
Visitors Count! Guidance for protected areas on the economic analysis of visitation
This guidance document aims to build awareness, knowledge, and capacity internationally on how to best undertake economic evaluations of tourism in protected areas, and thereby contribute towards a globally acknowledged standard methodology. We believe that it will serve as a key resource for protected area managers, site managers and their respective natural and cultural heritage agencies, practitioners, academia and consultancies, as well as international stakeholders and donor agencies.
CONSERVING AT LEAST 30% OF THE PLANET BY 2030 – What should count?
This brief seeks to bring clarity to the question of what could count toward the 30% global minimum target. within the context of recognized area-based conservation measures and their ability to deliver positive long-term conservation outcomes. It is based on guidance from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and other published sources, and is consistent with decisions of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).