Park managers call for cost-effective and innovative solutions to handle a wide variety of
environmental problems that threaten biodiversity in protected areas. Recently, drones have …

Protected areas (PAs) are at the forefront of conservation efforts, and yet despite
considerable progress towards the global target of having 17% of the world's land area …

Societies collapse when there is an increasing natural resource scarcity and growing
stratification of society into rich and poor. The neoliberal world of targets, business plans and …

The decline in economic activities and tourism during the COVID-19 pandemic has reduced
the pressure on the environment and protected area (PA) systems to some extent. However …

Commonalities and complementarities among approaches to conservation monitoring and
evaluation (M&E) are not well articulated, creating the potential for confusion, misuse, and …

Sustainable development requires improvement of both the quantity and quality of protected
areas (PAs). This paper reviews the assessments of PAs' effectiveness and provides further …

Private land conservation areas (PLCAs) are increasingly looked to for meeting the deficit
left by state-owned protected areas in reaching global conservation targets. However …

Increasing attention to formal recognition of indigenous and community conserved areas
(ICCAs) as part of national and/or global protected area systems is generating novel …

Given the increasing threats to biodiversity and limited resources for conservation, our
knowledge about the uncertainty in surrogates for representing comprehensively the spatial …

Establishing protected areas has emerged as one of the key aims in global and EU
conservation policy. In the EU, the particular role of providing biodiversity conservation was …