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Seven new Indigenous Protected Areas will recognise conservation led by Aboriginal and Torres Islander people is central to the protection of nature in Australia.
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IUCN is seeking the services of a suitably qualified and experienced consultant to design the Oceania State of Protected and Conserved Areas report. The goal of this work is to produce a credible and professional output that meets IUCN’s publication standards.
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Huge crowds are expected to scramble up Australia's Uluru on Friday before a ban on the climb takes effect. The giant monolith - formerly known as Ayers Rock - will be permanently off limits to visitors from Saturday.
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Researchers at the University of Bayreuth have calculated for the first time how climate change is likely to affect the earth's conservation areas by 2070.
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SPREP is seeking consultancy services to develop a new Framework for Nature Conservation and Protected Areas in the Pacific Islands region (2020-2025) and a high level declaration.
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Global targets on conservation include the goal of delivering more equitable management and governance of protected areas. But the lack of practical tools for assessing and enhancing governance quality and equity means there has been little progress.
Governance, Equity and the Green List
Good governance is fundamental to effective protected area (PA) design, planning, and management operations, and the degree to which these are equitable in terms of the recognition and engagement of key actors, and the distribution of benefits and costs/burdens. Achieving both effective and equitable PA management is central to international PA policy (ie Aichi target 11). Site-level PA governance assessment assesses the quality of the governance arrangements of a PA in relation to best practice which is defined in terms of a set of good governance principles.
Governance Assessment for Protected and Conserved Areas (GAPA) - Methodology manual for GAPA facilitators
This manual provides detailed guidance for assessing the governance quality of protected areas (PAs) and other conserved areas (CAs) and any related conservation and development activities. The manual describes the relatively low-cost Governance Assessment for Protected and Conserved Areas (GAPA) methodology, which is intended for use at site level. GAPA can be used with PAs and CAs of any kind. This includes PAs/CAs governed and managed by government agencies, communities and the private sector.
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The Greater Wellington Regional Council is being urged to establish a blue belt to protect the entire coast of the region.
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WaterNSW has objected to the expansion of a coalmine under Sydney’s drinking water catchment because the project would cause unacceptable impacts, including the loss of 3.3bn litres of water a year.The government-owned water corporation has also warned that mining company South32’s proposal to ex