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China is setting up its first marine national parks

The Changdao archipelago marks the threshold between the Bohai and Yellow seas. It is already home to nine national protected areas, including marine parks, geoparks and reserves for birds and marine mammals.

China issues guidelines to further biodiversity protection work

China on Tuesday issued a guideline that outlines the country's biodiversity protection goals. According to the goals, protected natural areas, mainly national parks, will account for 18 percent of China's land area by 2025, when China's forest coverage rate and comprehensive grassland coverage ...

China’s National Panda Park Will Be Three Times the Size of Yellowstone

The vast space will connect China’s fragmented panda populations, enabling the land giants to better find mates and diversify their species’ gene pool

China’s Surprisingly Robust System of Marine Protection

China, as the world’s largest producer and consumer of seafood, is well known for its voracious international fishing fleet. But a comprehensive understanding of the country’s efforts on marine protection, at least in its domestic waters, has remained elusive—even to many experts within China. N ...

China’s new panda park will be three times bigger than Yellowstone

The huge earthquake that rocked China’s Sichuan Province 11 years ago this month was a catastrophic human tragedy.

Climate Change and the World's Protected Areas

6 - 8 May 2005, New York, United States of America

Colloque 2011 du CSBQ (Centre de la Science de la Biodiversité du Québec) / QCSB 2011 Symposium

8 - 9 December 2011, Montreal, Canada

Colloquium on the role of ICCAs in achieving the Aichi Targets, 13 October 2012, Hyderabad, India

Reference: SCBD/STTM/SBG/JS/lj/80815 (2012-131)
To: CBD Focal Points, PoWPA Focal Points, International Organizations, NGOs, and ILCs

Communique: Regional workshops on updating NBSAPs and implementing CBD programme of work on protected areas held in West Africa

Communiqué: Seychelles Makes Major Contribution to Aichi Biodiversity Targets

Communities adjacent to protected areas commit their land to conservation.

COMMUNITIES adjacent to protected areas in Mbire have committed part of their land towards wildlife conservation, a move that is expected to help curb poaching in the area.

Compendium on Protected Area Governance and Management launched at 6th World Parks Congress

Montreal/Sydney, 20 November 2014 – A new compendium providing the latest and best professional information needed for protected area practitioner capacity development was released this week in the margins of the 6th IUCN World Parks Congress.

Completion of the LifeWeb Initiative

Reference: SCBD/SPS/CSU/CG/CB/85725 (2016-080)
To: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points and POWPA Focal Points

Comprehensive Support For Twelve Protected Areas in Georgia

Georgia receives assistance to conserve and protect its unique biodiversity through a five year initiative supported from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF).

Conservación in Situ

15 - 17 September 2004, Lima, Peru

Conservation and food production must work in tandem, new study says

Strictly protecting 30% of Earth’s land and sea by 2030 would result in food production shortfalls, and would render a fifth of mammals and a third of birds at high risk of extinction, according to a new study.

Convention on Biological Diversity Welcomes GEF Funding to Support Countries Implement the CBD Programme of Work on Protected Areas

Paris – 12 July 2007. The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) welcomed the ambitious project launched yesterday by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) specifically designed to help countries – particularly least developed countries and small island developing States, w ...

Convention on Biological Diversity Welcomes GEF Funding to Support Countries Implement the CBD Programme of Work on Protected Areas.

Costa Rica Creates a New Category of Protected Area to Conserve Forests in Urban Areas

Costa Rica has a new category of protected area called Urban Natural Parks (PANU), which seeks to conserve ecosystems and forests at risk in the city, as well as improve the physical and mental health of people. It also seeks to increase carbon sequestration; stimulate recreation and ecotourism; ...

Costa Rica Expands Cocos Island National Park by 27 times in size

President Carlos Alvarado of Costa Rica has signed a decree expanding the Cocos Island National Park, increasing the fully protected area in their Pacific waters by almost 53,000 square kilometers.

Costa Rica’s pristine ‘Shark Island’ now a massive marine reserve

Three times the size of the country’s mainland, the reserve’s abundance of sharks, whales, turtles, and other marine life has been described as an “underwater Jurassic Park.”

Council of the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV)

24 October 2013, Geneva, Switzerland

Countries fall short of U.N. pledge to protect 10% of the ocean by 2020

Covering a swath of ocean larger than Peru around coral reefs, golden beaches and rocky atolls in north Hawaiʻi, Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument is one of the world’s largest marine protected areas — and the biggest in North America.

Creating a nature-positive future

Investing in effective protected and conserved areas is an essential tool for achieving the protection of nature, through biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation. In our Creating a Nature-Positive Future report we present a path to enhance protected and conserved areas coverage a ...

Creating a nature-positive future

Investing in effective protected and conserved areas is essential to protect nature, through biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation.

Creating awareness of MPAs

On Sunday, 1 August South Africa will become the first country in the world to celebrate Marine Protected Areas (MPA) Day. To highlight the important role MPAs play in the conservation of marine biodiversity, a consortium of South African organisations passionate about the protection of marine l ...

Cropland takes up 6% of global protected areas: study

Protected areas cover around 13% of the earth’s surface, but contain an estimated 83% of its endangered wildlife. However, mounting evidence suggests that protected areas may not be living up to their name, with around a third of the planet’s protected land area under intense pressure from human ...

Cuba drastically reforms fishing laws to protect coral reef, sharks and rays

Reforms will oblige Cuba to work more closely with its US neighbours – in spite of US President Trump’s frosty attitude

DRC: The creation of Congo Air Nature to safeguard protected areas

This is one of the major works envisaged by the new management team of the Congolese Institute for Nature Conservation (ICCN) of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The creation of an airline called Congo Air Nature. Its mission is to monitor and promote ecotourism through the country's 82 p ...

Declaration of Black River Morass, Pedro Cays as protected areas to be advanced

THE process to have the Black River Morass and the Pedro Cays and surrounding waters declared as protected areas will be advanced this financial year.

Designation of a National Focal Point for the Programme of Work on Protected Areas

Reference: SCBD/STTM/SBG/lj/65011R (2010-109)
To: CBD National Focal Points

With reference to paragraph A 21 of decision IX/18, Parties were requested to designate a National Focal Point for the Programme of Work on Protected Areas (PoWPA-NFP) vide original notification 2008-124 dated 23 September 2008 (also available in Spanish https://www.cbd.int/doc/notifications/200 ...

Designation of a National Focal Point for the Programme of Work on Protected Areas (PoWPA-NFP)

Reference: SCBD/STTM/SBG/va/65011 (2008-124)
To: CBD National Focal Points

In paragraph A 21 of decision IX/18, the Conference of the Parties requested “ Parties to designate a national focal point for the programme of work on protected areas in support of the Convention's national focal point to facilitate the effective and coordinated development and implementation o ...

Development of a global partnership to support the achievement of Target 3 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

12 - 14 June 2023, Cambridge, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Diana McCaulay | Protecting the Palisadoes

Thanks to The Sunday Gleaner (May 22, 2021) for the story re the sea defence works on the Palisadoes tombolo, pointing out the all-too-common situation that the mitigation measures identified as necessary to avoid environmental damage have not been done 10 years later.

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Protected areas E-learning curricula

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Clark, M.R., Tittensor D., Rogers A.D., Brewin, P., Schlacher, T., Rowden, A., Stocks, K., Consalvey, M. (2006). Seamounts, deep-sea corals and fisheries: vulnerability of deep-sea corals to fishing on seamounts beyond areas of national jurisdiction. UNEP-WCMC, Cambridge, UK

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Report and Documentation of the Expert Workshop on Marine Protected Areas and Fisheries Management: Review of Issues and Considerations. Rome, 12-14 June 2006. FAO Fisheries Report No. 825 FIEP/R825

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Ivanov, A. N. and V.A. Spiridonov. An approach to marine bioregionalization in the Russian Arctic for the purposes of planning marine protected areas and other areas in need of protection

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UNEP-WCMC (2007). Working towards a High Seas Marine Protected Areas Network: Development of an Interactive Map (IMap) and review of spatial databases containing information on marine areas beyond the limits of national jurisdiction. A report of the UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNE ...

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Christiansen, S. for WWF NEAME. Marine Protected Areas in areas beyond national jurisdiction. Proposed High Seas MPAs in the North East Atlantic by WWF 1998-2006

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Why do Protected Areas Need to be Integrated?

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Integrating Protected Areas into Wider Landscapes and Seascapes : Thailand

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Step 7: Implementing Strategies - The Case of the Russian Far East Ecoregion

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Integrating Protected Areas into Wider Land and Seascapes - Step 4: Assessing Sectors and Policies

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Integrating Protected Areas into the Wider Landscape and Seascape - The Implementation Challenges

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Background on ideas, concepts, and the Ecosystem Approach

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7 Implementing PAS Strategy with Involvement of Local/Indigenous Communities in the Altai Republic Of Russia

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Some Cases from Japan for Integrating Protected Areas into Wider Landscapes and Seascapes

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Integrating Protected Areas into the Wider Landscape, Seascape and Related Sectors - An Overview

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Integrating Protected Areas into Wider Land and Seascapes - Step 4: Assessing Sectors and Policies