To more effectively guard forests and stem climate change, "simply designating a place as protected can't be the beginning and the end of a conservation effort" LONDON, Oct 29 (Thomson Reuters ...

These “protected areas” can range from enormous, strictly-protected areas like US national parks, through the heavily-used landscapes of UK national parks, to tiny urban nature reserves. Protected ...

In February 2024, Papua New Guinea’s parliament passed the Protected Areas Bill, first introduced two decades ago, into an act, which aims to establish a national system of protected areas to achieve ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A new paper in the journal Current Biology that attempts to track how protected areas (PAs) fare on biodiversity protection and economic growth ...

Melissa Breyer was Treehugger’s senior editorial director before moving to Martha Stewart. Her writing and photography have been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, ...

Many endangered mammal species are dependent on protected areas, and would likely vanish without them. Despite the success of protected areas, their popularity as a go-to conservation tool has started ...