To improve conservation efficiency, tracking and monitoring is important and should be carried out on regular basis. These regularized efforts enable actors to find out and correct weak performances ...

The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is currently being held in South Korea, it started on October 6 and will end on October 17. Tarsicio Granizo, WWF Living Amazon Initiative Protected Areas ...

Indonesia has put nearly a tenth of its waters under some form of protection, and intends to expand this to nearly a third by 2045. However, a study has found that none of Indonesia’s existing marine ...

A NEW Site Level Committee (SLC) has been established to enhance the management and protection of the Kanuku Mountains Protected Area, marking a major step ...

At the UN Biodiversity Summit during the 75th General Assembly in New York, Nepal proudly stated: “Twenty-three per cent of ...

The following notes are a brief introduction to the system. They are followed by an extract from the IUCN publication Guidelines for Protected Area Management Categories (IUCN, 1994). The definition ...

Scientific findings don't always translate neatly into actions, especially in conservation and resource management. The disconnect can leave academics and practitioners disheartened and a bit ...

What if a nation's non-governmental organisations (NGOs), community leaders, businesses, and government worked together to conserve protected areas? In Belize, this is more than just a hopeful wish.

Data before decisions, adaptive fisheries management and mandatory recreational fishing licences are on the list of proposals being drawn up by the Fishermen’s Association of Bermuda. The organisation ...

A Mongabay analysis has found that almost half of Mexico’s 232 federally protected areas — 108 of them — do not have management plans. Among those without plans are protected areas that were decreed ...