Protected Areas

Protected Areas

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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  »

11 December 2019

Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, CBD Acting Executive Secretary, welcomes announcement that biodiversity will be theme of the next year’s World Environment Day: “We are delighted to see that biodiversity will be the focus of World Environment Day 2020. The 2020 WED theme is especially opportune and will help educate the public and mobilize political will around one of the most critical issues of our time. UNEP’s decision will help raise awareness of actions needed in the “super year” for biodiversity. More »
5 December 2019

Statement by Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Acting Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of World Soil Day 2019. More »
1 December 2019

Statement by Ms. Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, at the opening of the Thematic Workshop on Area-Based Conservation Measures, La Prairie, Canada, 1-3 December 2019. More »
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Notifications  »

23 December 2019 (2019-118)

Launching of the First Phase of the Newly Designed Website. More »
18 December 2019 (2019-116)

Request to Identify and Submit Data on Other Effective Area-Based Conservation Measures. More »
7 October 2019 (2019-084)

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

24 January 2020

Human-wildlife conflict threatens protected reserves in East Africa . More »
24 January 2020

Study: Activism and civil disobedience help communicate the science of climate change . More »
24 January 2020

Climate change: 'We're not perfect', says Marion Cotillard on Antarctica trip . More »
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