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Vanuatu is a stronghold of biodiversity in the Pacific islands region and there are many sites throughout the country that have high conservation value owing to their role as key habitats for vulnerable and endemic species...In this backdrop, a national workshop for protected area stakeholders wa

These Protected Area learning modules were developed by the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), International Union for Conservation of Nature - World Commission on Protected Areas (IUCN-WCPA), and The Nature

Protected area managers and stakeholders in Vanuatu have completed training in open-source Geographic Information System software...During the training participants learnt how to import, style, label and manage data, create their own protected area data and create professional maps.

THE greater Delaikoro, Taveuni and Mt Tomaniivi areas will soon improve their resilience to climate change.

The Protected Areas Learning and Research Collaboration (PALRC) is a tertiary and vocational education and research initiative dedicated to natural and cultural heritage protection, stewardship and conservation management and capacity development for the Asia Pacific and Oceania regions.The Colla

A $100m funding package to Landcare will include $15m for new Indigenous protected areas.

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Protected Area managers face enormous challenges: a lack of resources, invasive species, poaching, and development to name to just a few. Now along comes a threat that is bigger than all the previous ones and even interacts with most of them.

Fish can quickly evolve to get more benefit from the protection offered by marine protected areas, according to research from the University of British Columbia.

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A project to strengthen the operational and financial sustainability of Jamaica’s national system of protected areas is being hailed as a success after six years of implementation.

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This handbook provides practical guidance on the effective use of protected areas as tools to reduce the likelihood and impacts of disasters.