The Protected Areas Bill was based on the PNG National Policy on Protected Areas road map to protect the country’s biodiversity and cultural heritage. Now passed into an act, ...

Designating areas as protected spaces for wildlife is a common strategy for preserving biodiversity, but heavy human ...

Just how effective protected areas are at safeguarding habitats and the species that live within them is the focus of a new ...

Swansea study of 509 European bird species found protected areas boost species numbers but fail to maintain food web ...

California reviews its Marine Protected Areas network every 10 years, with the first review set to occur in December. Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 65°F.

The oldest marine-protected areas in the Mesoamerican Reef were established in the 1970s and ’80s, and over 40 protected areas now cover half the region’s coastal waters.

About 99 percent of “highly or fully” protected ocean area is in the central Pacific, according to one 2022 study. Most of it is within just a handful of enormous parks around the Pacific Islands.