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Protected areas (PAs) can generate many benefits inside and outside their borders, and achieving objectives for diverse stakeholders raises many challenges.

Conservation starts at home and includes conserving energy and water as well as reducing the use of plastic bags and plastic utensils.Marine resources should also be protected.Click on the link below to read the full article.

The Protected Areas Learning & Research Collaboration (PALRC) is proud to launch the new round of scholarships for students undertaking study in 2018. Applications for this round close 30 April 2018.Click on link below for more details. 

IUCN has released a new publication titled 'Tourism and Visitor Management in Protected Areas', guidelines to help protected area authorities establish sustainable tourism and visitation.Click on the link below for more information.

IUCN will mark World Heritage Day with a PANORAMA webinar focussing on nature"s iconic treasures.

...a new list being developed by the IUCN aims to highlight positive steps being taken around the world to protect nature.Click on the link below to read the full story.

Researchers with the EU-funded TRECKQUITY project have developed a new approach for tracking the achievement of multidimensional social equity in the world"s protected areas.Click on the link below to read the full article.

Queensland's Labor government this month tabled a bill to tighten the regulation of land clearing. Queensland is by far the worst offender in this area, following a litany of reversals of vegetation protection.Click on the link below to read the full story.

Protecting important sites is a key strategy for halting the loss of biodiversity. However, our understanding of the relationship between management inputs and biodiversity outcomes in protected areas (PAs) remains weak.Click on the link below to read the full article.

Protected areas across the world are most threatened by unsustainable resource use and human disturbance, a new study has found.Click on the link below to read the full story.