August 13, 2021
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A new rule protecting biodiversity off the coast of Motiti Island came into effect this week.
August 13, 2021
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No one will be allowed to take any kind of marine life from three reef areas surrounding Mōtītī Island from tomorrow onwards. This follows a decision made by the Environment Court that has ruled the area's biodiversity and cultural value to be special and in need of protection.
Making Money Local: Can Protected Areas Deliver Both Economic Benefits and Conservation Objectives?
This publication has been developed as a contribution to Phase II of the Two-phase Strategy on Protected Areas of the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and prepared pursuant to various paragraphs of COP decision XIII/2 on protected areas, in particular paragraph 5(a-e), and paragraph 10 of decision XI/24.
August 6, 2021
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A new study raises questions on whether current conservation science and policy for protected areas could be saving more biodiversity—with political and economic expediency often having taken precedence in the past.
August 6, 2021
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Federal and state mandates to conserve 30% of the nation's lands and waters by 2030 are intended to protect biodiversity. But do protected areas actually work?
July 29, 2021
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Councils and iwi working on a new district plan for the West Coast have been warned they can't get away from dealing with the thorny question of SNAs and protecting indigenous biodiversity. Members of the Te Tai o Poutini plan committee agonised over the issue for more than an hour at their meeti
What determines the effectiveness of national protected area networks?
More than 15% of global terrestrial area is under some form of protection and there is a growing impetus to increase this coverage to 30% by 2030. But not all protection is effective and the reasons some countries’ protected areas (PAs) are more effective than others’ are poorly understood. We evaluate the effectiveness of national PA networks established between 2000 and 2012 globally in avoiding forest loss, taking into account underlying deforestation threats using a combination of matching methods and cross-sectional regressions.
July 23, 2021
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Recent disasters such as the Black Summer bushfires and the Juukan Gorge destruction highlighted the need to put Indigenous people at the centre of decision-making about Australia’s natural places...A project off Western Australia’s northwest coast offers a potential way forward.
July 22, 2021
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World Bank Group’s East Asia and the Pacific regional vice-president Victoria Kwakwa said the World Bank’s recently launched report, Banking on Protected Areas: Promoting sustainable nature-based tourism to benefit local communities...She said the report makes the case that the promotion of susta
July 14, 2021
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Scientists have published a global study on the effectiveness of protected areas in preventing deforestation.