Protected areas spearhead our response to the rapidly accelerating biodiversity crisis.
However, while the number of protected areas has been growing rapidly over the past 20 …

Protected areas (PAs) are a key tool for biodiversity conservation and play a central role in
the Convention on Biological Diversity. Recently, the effectiveness of PAs has been …

26 ENVIRONMENT VOLUME 47 NUMBER 10 protected areas cover about 10 percent of the
Earth's terrestrial surface today, success in protected-area biodiversity uplift often leaves …

Protected areas (PAs) are the most important conservation tool, yet assessing their
effectiveness is remarkably challenging. We clarify the links between the many facets of PA …

The monitoring of trends in the status of species or habitats is routine in developed
countries, where it is funded by the state or large nongovernmental organizations and often …

Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) have agreed that by 2020 at least 17
per cent of terrestrial and inland water and 10 per cent of coastal and marine areas should …

Protected areas (PAs) that are not effectively managed will not contribute meaningfully to the
Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework Target 3, which aims to ensure that a …

Abstract In 2010, the Convention on Biological Diversity adopted the Strategic Plan for
Biodiversity 2011–2020. As international attention turns to the development of the post-2020 …

Protected area management effectiveness (PAME) evaluation is increasingly undertaken to
evaluate governance, assess conservation outcomes and inform evidence-based …

Global trends in biodiversity conservation have frequently been reported as being
unsatisfactory, especially after the 2010 targets of the Convention on Biological Diversity …