This sounds like good news: "The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has pledged another $100 million toward efforts to establish and support protected areas across the Andes-Amazon landscape. The five-year... read more →
IUCN- Papaco is launching the second session of its Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Protected Areas Management in Africa: 'Gestion des aires protégées en Afrique' This course (in French)... read more →
The PARKS Journal or the International Journal of Protected Areas and Conservation is published by IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) is published twice a year as an online,... read more →
In summary: "As the highest and most impressive features of the landscape, mountains have an unusual power to awaken a sense of the sacred. Their soaring summits, the clouds and... read more →
In the US as a whole, there are currently more than 400 National Park units, including monuments, seashores, lakeshores, recreation areas and historic sites. Collectively, they cover a land mass roughly... read more →
Readers of this website may find the following article, as found in the Poverty and Conservation Learning Group (PCLG) monthly newsletter, of interest: de Lange, E., Woodhouse, E. & Milner-Gulland,... read more →
Extinction rates in the Anthropocene are three orders of magnitude higher than background and disproportionately occur in the tropics, home of half the world’s species. Despite global efforts to combat... read more →
An Impact Evaluation of the Global Environment Fund (GEF)/ United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Support to Protected Areas (PAs) and PA Systems was completed in October 2015. This joint impact... read more →
The British Columbia provincial government is inviting public feedback on what may happen to protected land in the South Okanagan, British Columbia, Canada. As a result of discussions with First... read more →
By end-2013, some 140+ countries have accessed the GEF’s Biodiversity Enabling Activities (BD EA) with the aim of updating their National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs) and fulfilling other... read more →
