March 27, 2017
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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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March 13, 2017
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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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February 6, 2017
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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.
Aichi Biodiversity Targets - Pacific Regional Workshop, July 2016
Aichi Biodiversity Targets - Pacific Regional Workshop, Fiji, July 11-13, 2016
Capacity Development for Protected and Other Conserved Areas in the Pacific Islands Region
This document is an important tool for promoting action. It highlights the importance of culturally‐responsive capacity development, with Pacific Islanders defining the most appropriate approaches to be used. This requires partnerships, programs, and processes that work closely with existing contexts and conditions, understand and reflect values and cultures, and help build on existing knowledge and the great strength of the region – community‐based management. That is the purpose of this framework.
Social Assessment for Protected Areas (SAPA)
This manual provides detailed guidance for assessing the social impacts – benefits and costs – of protected areas (PAs) and related conservation and development activities, at the local level using the relatively simple and low cost Social Assessment for Protected Areas (SAPA) methodology. SAPA can be used with PAs of any kind, including PAs managed and governed by government agencies, communities and the private sector.
Management of Protected Areas
An encouraging sign for the conservation of biodiversity in recent years has been the establishment of thousands of protected areas around the world including tens of million of square kilometres of marine protected areas. One might say that establishing protected areas has become easier than in the past as nations scramble to meet their commitments under the Convention on Biological Diversity.