Protected areas aim to conserve nature, ecosystem services, and cultural values in a
changing environment. Three decades of terrestrial and marine protected area expansion …

Protected areas are a fundamental mechanism for ensuring the persistence of biodiversity.
The strategic policy objectives set by governments for protected area land acquisition are …

Protected areas are the primary form of intervention applied to achieve biodiversity
conservation in response to anthropogenic threat. More than 14% of terrestrial land surface …

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 are one of the main tools of conservation to protect wildlife and ecosystems.
The amount of area being gazetted for protection has been rapidly increasing over time in …

In 1959, the UN Economic and Social Council called for a list of the world's national parks
and equivalent reserves to recognise their economic, social and scientific importance and …

Biodiversity is valued for its intrinsic worth and for its role in generating ecosystem services,
such as soil fertility, clean air, renewable bio-resources, and water quality and availability …

World Parks Congress, organized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature
(IUCN) in Sydney, Australia, 12 innovative approaches were promoted as part of the …

Given the importance placed on protected areas, determining their effectiveness in
representing and maintaining biodiversity is a core issue in conservation biology …

ABSTRACT In 2010, Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) adopted Aichi
Biodiversity Target 11, committing to conserve, by 2020, at least 17 per cent of terrestrial and …