Today's protected areas
Today's protected areas: supporting a more sustainable future for ...
Nature provides significant benefits to people, especially those living in and around protected areas. Ecosystem services from protected areas include ...
Explore the World's Protected Areas
Protected Planet is the most up to date and complete source of data on protected areas and other effective area-based conservation measures (OECMs), updated ...
Protected Areas | U.S. Geological Survey - USGS.gov
PAD-US is America's official national inventory of US terrestrial and marine protected areas that are dedicated to the preservation of biological diversity.
Protected areas and land use | IUCN
Human activity, mostly for food production and forestry, is transforming landscapes. Today, one third of all land is degraded or degrading, which harms ...
Protected Areas: Types, Regulations & Identification Guide - Transect
These lands include public lands and parks, wilderness areas, national wildlife refuges, reserves, conservation easements, marine areas and more. These areas ...
Protected and conserved areas increasingly cover areas of importance for biodiversity, with 65.5% of Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) now partially or fully ...
Formally protected areas cover only a small portion of the planet (13%) but harbor 83% of all endangered wildlife. Related News. October 22, 2024. Colombia ...
Today's Protected Areas: - IUCN World Parks Congress
Caring for protected areas requires a vast spectrum of capacities to be innovative and effective in sustaining biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services ...
Can we save nature with crazy shapes? - The Washington Post
In the 21st century, finding nearly a third of the world's land to protect will be very difficult. What does “protected area” really mean? Today ...
Today's protected areas: supporting a more sustainable future for ...
Ecosystem services from protected areas include producing wild food, supporting biodiversity and water cycles, regulating climate, and providing ...
Protected and conserved areas: WWF's approach to inclusive ...
Such efforts are collectively known as protected and conserved areas. Today, there are many different approaches to conservation being applied in diverse places ...
Protected Areas in Today's World: Their Values and Benefits for the ...
Protected areas are important tools for the conservation of biological diversity and are cornerstones of sustainable development strategies. Aside from their ...
World met target for protected area coverage on land, but quality ...
Today, 22.5 million km2 (16.64%) of land and inland water ecosystems and 28.1 million km2 (7.74%) of coastal waters and the ocean are within ...
Protected areas: what are they, and why are they so important? - Etifor
How many protected areas are there worldwide, in Europe and Italy today? And how many will there be tomorrow? ... As of July 2023, the global coverage of ...
protected areas — NEWS - Campaign For Nature
Protected areas (PAs) and other effective area-based conservation measures (OECMs) are a cornerstone of biodiversity conservation that provide co-benefits for ...
Protected areas or conservation areas are locations which receive protection because of their recognized natural or cultural values. Protected areas are ...
Protected Areas: the Past, Present, and Future of Conservation
As of today, world nations have legally designated over 202 000 protected lands covering 19.8 million square kilometers, or 15% of Earth's ...
Biodiversity Hotspots - Conservation International
Today, species are going extinct at the fastest rate since the mass extinction of the dinosaurs. To stem this crisis, we must protect the places where ...
Introductory Chapter: Today's National Parks (NPs) and Protected ...
Protected areas—national parks, wilderness areas, community conserved areas, nature reserves, and so on—are a mainstay of biodiversity ...
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Our proposed protected area effectiveness indicators include a combination of remotely derived products for all protected areas, combined with data from ...