Protected Areas

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Afghanistan

Afghanistan declares its first protected area    Read more!

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Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands strengthens enabling legal framework    Read more!

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Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea completes climate-ready gap assessment    Read more!

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India

India – Changing the Stripes: An inclusive-agenda for tiger conservation    Read more!

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Ecuador

Ecuador’s Puntilla de Santa Elena MPA - contributing to PoWPA goal 1.1    Read more!

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Canada

Canada creates new national parks to protect Canadian boreal forest    Read more!

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Colombia

Yaijogé Apaporis: A New Colombian National Park is Born    Read more!

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Australia

Australia - success in Indigenous Protected Areas    Read more!

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Albania

Sazani Island - Albania's First Marine Protected Area    Read more!

Protected areas are the cornerstones of biodiversity conservation

Protected areas constitute an important stock of natural, cultural and social capital, yielding flows of economically valuable goods and services that benefit society, secure livelihoods, and contribute to the achievement of Millennium Development Goals. Moreover, protected areas are key to buffering unpredictable impacts of impending climate change. The CBD Programme of Work on Protected Areas provides a globally-accepted framework for creating comprehensive, effectively managed and sustainably funded national and regional protected area systems around the globe.

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What's New  »

24 January 2012

To support implementation of the CBD PoWPA a training of trainers workshop using the CBD PoWPA e-learning modules was held for West Africa in Dakar from 21-25 November 2011. More »

16 January 2012

Communiqué: The Green Wave to support forest rehabilitation in the devastated region of Tohoku, Japan. More »

23 December 2011

Communiqué: The MIDORI Prize for Biodiversity at the service of the United Nations Decade on Biodiversity. More »



Notifications  »

26 January 2012 (2012-018)

Submission of action plans for the implementation of the CBD programme of work on protected areas (PoWPA). More »

26 January 2012 (2012-015)

Sub-Regional Workshop for Latin America on Capacity Building for Implementation of the CBD Programme of Work on Protected Areas. More »

20 October 2011 (2011-199)

Sub-Regional Workshops for Central Africa and for South and East Africa on Capacity Building for Implementation of the CBD Programme of Work on Protected Areas. More »



News Headlines  »

2 February 2012

Unique Hornbilll conservation project attracting foreign tourists to Arunachal More »

1 February 2012

China streams live panda video to foster conservation More »

31 January 2012

Financing a Rare Book on Endangered Species More »



Upcoming Meetings  »

30 January - 3 February 2012, Cape Town, South Africa

Sub-Regional Workshop for Central, South and East Africa on Capacity-building for Implementation of the CBD Programme of Work on Protected Areas. More »

12 - 16 March 2012, Bogota, Colombia

Sub-Regional Workshop for Latin America on Capacity-building for Implementation of the CBD Programme of Work on Protected Areas. More »

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