Protected areas are the cornerstones of biodiversity conservation and have never been more relevant than at the present time when the world is facing both a biodiversity and a climate change crisis.

New partnership will focus on protected areas expansion and effectiveness. Gland, Switzerland – WWF and IUCN have joined forces to enhance and promote the role of protected and conserved areas in ...

The IUCN has defined six protected area management categories, based on primary management objective (Table 1). These categories are defined in detail in the Guidelines for Protected Areas ...

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. Despite a growing and increasingly sophisticated set of international policy guidance and norms governing issues of equity and the rights ...

On May 20, the Marine Mammal Protected Areas Task Force of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) announced 46 new candidate Important Marine Mammal Areas (IMMAs) for the North West ...

in Sharjah has officially announced the inclusion of Sir Bu Nair Island Protected Area in the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Green List of Protected and Conserved Areas.