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Protected areas (PAs) represent a cornerstone of efforts to safeguard biodiversity, and if effective should reduce threats to biodiversity.

The global portfolio of protected areas is growing rapidly, despite widely recognized shortfalls in management effectiveness.

Connectivity of protected areas (PAs) is crucial for meeting their conservation goals.

To find out if terrestrial protected areas are effective in achieving their environmental and socioeconomic goals, we read 56 scientific studies...Overall, protected areas do appear to reduce forest cover loss.

A new study shows that good governance is critical for conservation success. Click on the link below to read the full article.

This study contributes to the spatial-temporal understanding of human visitation and distribution patterns in protected areas by leveraging digital footprints, manifested as publicly shared geotagged photos, as an efficient spatial data source to (1) model spatial distributions of visitor us

Managalas Plateau has been declared the biggest conservation area in the country to date...It had taken 32 years of hard work for the conservation area to be officially declared.Click on the link below to read the full article. 

Over the summer holiday season tens of thousands of visitors and locals will enjoy the natural magic of national parks caressing the Coffs Coast.

Over the past decades, a number of national policies and international conventions have been implemented to promote the expansion of the world"s protected area network, leading to a diversification of protected area strategies, types and designations.

Protected areas have for centuries been a key strategy in conservation and play a major role in addressing current challenges... Periodic assessments of the world's protected area estate show steady growth over the last two decades.