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Lessons learned from PoWPA Implementation

Achieving the Aichi Targets and Strategic Plan    Read more!
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Albania

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

Australia - success in Indigenous Protected Areas    Read more!
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Colombia

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

Canada creates new national parks to protect Canadian boreal forest    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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India

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

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

Solomon Islands strengthens enabling legal framework    Read more!
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Afghanistan

Afghanistan declares its first 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  »

14 June 2016

Statement of Mr. Braulio F. de Souza Dias, CBD Executive Secretary, on the occasion of the Capacity–Building Workshop for Central and Eastern Europe on Achieving Aichi Biodiversity Targets 11 and 12, Minsk, Belarus, 14 June 2016. More »
6 May 2016

As a vital part of biodiversity, migratory birds play key functions in the interconnected systems that keep nature healthy, including seed dispersal of plants for human and livestock consumption, ecosystem restoration and pest regulation, in addition to the important cultural, aesthetic and economic roles they play in the lives of people worldwide. More »
19 April 2016

This year, International Mother Earth Day coincides with the signing ceremony for the Paris Agreement on Climate Change at UN Headquarters in New York, where world governments will demonstrate their commitment to meet the challenges of climate change. More »
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Notifications  »

22 August 2016 (2016-101)

Call for Posters on progress achieved towards the Aichi Biodiversity Targets for the Thirteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity 4-17 December 2016 – Cancun, Mexico. More »
23 June 2016 (2016-082)

Fair on Experiences and Best Practices in Communication, Education and Public Awareness at the thirteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, Cancun, Mexico. More »
20 June 2016 (2016-081)

Composition of the Informal Advisory Committee on Communication, Education and Public Awareness (CEPA-IAC). More »
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News Headlines  »

22 September 2016

Proposed marine protected areas concern Nova Scotia fishermen . More »
22 September 2016

Scientists discover half of Asia's protected areas too small for snow leopard survival . More »
16 September 2016

Private lands within B.C.’s Great Bear Rainforest donated for conservation . More »
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